Iran: further

Student and Azeri activist Eunice Soleimani, is detained since December 2011 in Ardabil Prison.
Hij has been banned from university an is former secretary of Turkish Center at Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan, and has been severely beaten by agents of Tabriz Intelligence Agency.
source: iranbriefing.net

Zanyar Moradi and Loqman Moradi who are sentenced to death are in appeal also sentenced to death and their execution is imminent.
The only person who can stop this execution is the Fridays Prayer Leader in Marivan.
They are convicted for the killing of the son of the Fridays Prayer Leader in 2009 and spying for the British government.
They confessed this in a televised confession, but wrote an open letter from prison announcing that their confessions were extracted under torture.
source: iranbriefing.net

Malaysia stopped the exports of palmoil to Iran and Asian traders stopped purchasing crude because of the Western economical sanctions on Iran.
source: reuters

In Iran is an illegal trade in organs.According to reports the chief prosecutor of the ministry of Justice in Iran is deeply involved in this.
source: freedomessenger

The children of Karroubi and Moussavi wrote an open letter in which they call upon their compatriots to raise their voice and ask for democracy and release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.
source: banouesabz.wordpress.com


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Iran: arrests

Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Iranian security agents since 2011 in Khuzestan province, 65 Arab residents have arrested.
The Deputy Middle East director of Human Rights Watch urges Iran to immediately divulge the reasons for the arrests, give detainees access to family members and lawyers and bring all detainees promptly before a judge.


Names of people reported arrested in Khuzestan Province Since November 2011 (provided by local activists).

Shush: Qasem Badavi, Jaajaa Chenani, Aadel Dabbat, Ahmad Dabbat, Ashur Dabbat, Faisal Dabbat, Kazem Dabbat, Ebrahim Heidari, Hamid Kaabi, Jaafar Kaabi, Jasem Kaabi, Karim Kaabi, Khadijeh Kaabi (female), Mohammad Kaabi (died in detention), Sajjad Kaabi, Ali Kenani, Abbas Khasraji, Mehdi Khasraji, Moslem Mazraavi, Morteza Mousavi, Hasan Navaseri, Mehdi Navaseri, Salar Obeidavi, Amir Sorkhi, Adnan Zoqeibi, Ahmad Zoqeibi, Osman Zoqeibi

Hamidiyeh: Hasan Abiat, Jalil Abiat, Jamal Abiat, Aadel Cheldavi, Adnan Cheldavi, Karim Doheimi, Ali Heidari, Mohammad Adnan Helfi, Ghabel Manabi (arrested November 2011), Hadi Manabi, Hasan Manabi (arrested November 2011), Seyed Faraj Mousavi (released on bail), Heidar Obeidavi, Khaled Obeidavi, Ayoub Saedi, Emad Saedi, Abbas Samer, Eidan Shakhi

Ahvaz (and vicinity): Ahmad Afravi (Sunni), Nasser Alboshokeh Derafshan (died in detention), Majid Bavi (Sunni), Abdolvahid Beit Sayyah (Sunni), Valid Hamadi, Qazi Handali Farhani (Sunni), Jamal Hazbavi (Sunni), Tofiq Heidari, Hamid Khanfari Batrani (Sunni), Hossein Khazraji (Sunni), Said Khazraji (Sunni), Jasem Marvani, Taher Moaviyeh, Mohammad Naami, Seyed Ahmad Nazari (Sunni), Aadel Saedi, Hossein Savari, Ali Sayyahi, Ali Sharifi, Sadoun Silavi, Khalaf Zobeidi (Sunni)

This list is not exhaustive and Human Rights Watch could not independently verify whether the individuals listed remain in detention.
source: hrw.org



Radio Zamaneh writes that according to Youssef Azizi Banitaraf arrests occurred in Shoosh, Ahvaz and Hamidieh where security forces are telling elders of the tribes in the region to bring people to the voting booths. A number of youth writing slogans on public walls calling for a boycott of the coming parliamentary elections, triggered the arrests.
Banitaraf said that the arrested were taken to an unknown place and they were not allowed to contact their familymembers. Familymembers of the deceased were not allowed holding any commemoration services for their kin.
source: iranbriefing.net

Several people in Iran report that one or more journalists of BBC-Persia have been arrested. Mehrnews reports that they were involved in newsgathering, recruiting and training for Iranian journalists and had arranged trips abroad for them.
BBC reports in its blog that at this moment no BBC Persian journalists are working in Iran.
source: BBC

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Iran: ground

Blogger, publisher and physician Mehdi Khazali is sentenced to 14 years in prison, ten years in exile, and ninety lashes.
He is the son of Ayatollah Khazali, a influential cleric and member of the Assembly of Experts,who is a staunch supporter of Iran’s ruling elite.
Since he was arrested on 9 January 2012 Khazali went on hunger strike to protest his detention.
source: en.greenvoice.com


According to International Campaign for Humanrights in Iran Abolfazal Tabarzadi, 24 has been in a mental hospital suffering of severe paranoia and depression.
He is a student and nephew of political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi.
He was sentenced in appeal to 9 months in prison for acting against national security and contacts to foreign media.
Since October 2011 he is serving his sentence in Karounprison in Ahwaz.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

Shargh Daily writes that Iran banned Simpson cartoon dolls for being "too Western".
Barbie and other dolls were already on a toy blacklist.
But Superman and Spiderman were allowed, because they helped the "oppressed."
The secretary of policymaking of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, said that any doll on which genitals are distinguishable, as well as dolls of adults, are banned.
Toy kitchen sets that include glasses for drinking alcoholic beverages are also banned.
source: utsandiego.com


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Iran: more

Iran has begun military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz.
The exercises will last one week.
The exercises come after the West sent more warships to the region amid on-going tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian websites reported that Saudi Arabia blocked the website of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
It is said that it was blocked because of Iran's influence on the "Islamic awakening." Iranian officials have been using the term as part of their efforts to put their own stamp on the Arab Spring uprisings, which they claim have been inspired by Iran's own 1979 revolution.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: all is fine

January 28th, 2 men are hanged in secret in Lakanprison in Rasht.
Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran reports that the man's names are Ayoub Kalantari, 28 and Mohammad-Reza Sharifi, 40, from Baluchistan.
from: freedomessenger


Friday Iran banned its citizens from travelling to Syria by road.
The ban came after the abduction of nearly 30 Iranians in Syria.
Each year hundreds of thousands of Iranian pilgrims travel to Syria to visit Sayyeda Zeinab, a revered Shiite shrine near Damascus.
source: freedomessenger


Ayatollah Khamenei said during the Friday Prayers in Tehran that the country is not in crisis.
He also said that the international sanctions are actually a benefit, in so far as they force Iran to concentrate on its domestic potential.
He added that regardless of the sanctions, Iran will not retreat from its nuclear program.
source: iranbriefing.net



February 3rd, security agents arrested Bahairesidents in Shiraz.
Reported are that among them Nima Dehqan, Mezhdeh Falah, Mazhgan `Amadi, Sam Jarberi, Sina Sarikhani, Bijan Falah and Zhinous Fana’iyan and several other Bahai were arrested.
source: CNN

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Iran: act

Reuters reports that traders from Ukraine no longer use Iranian ships to transport grain.
This, because of difficulties with payments following European Union sanctions on Iran.
About 400,000 tonnes of grain largely from Ukraine and Russia is held up on about 10 ships stranded outside Iranian ports because of payment problems and trade disruption following the EU sanctions.
source: en.trend.az

Iran launched succesful a new satellite.
The satellite is placed into an orbit between 250 and 370 kilometers above Earth.
Officials say that the satellite is collecting data on weather conditions and monitoring natural disasters on Earth.
It is the third, small domestically produced satellite that Iran says it has launched in recent years.
source: rferl.org


The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that Iran should stop immediately the widespread campaign of intimidation against journalists and their family members.
The Campaign is also concerned about videotaping of false confessions and the possibility of politically motivated broadcasts ahead of the 2 March 2012 parliamentary elections.
In the past month were at least 9 journalists arrested, among them Parastoo Dokouhaki, Marzieh Rassouli, and Sahamoddin Bouraghani.
source: iranhumanrights.org


According to a report on the website of the Green Movement, agents of the IRGC interrogated online a BBCreporter of BBC-Persia .
The sister of the reporter is detained in Evinprison in the Ward controled by IRGC. The reporter was contacted by e-mail and they told the BBC reporter that if she talked to them, her sister would be released.
After the BBC reporter consulted with the head of BBC’s Persian service she spoke 40 minutes over the Internet with IRGC security officers.
source: rferl.org.

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Iran: punishments

On the courtyard of the policestation in Karaj is a man hanged on January 31st.
According to IRNA the man, H. M. drove over a policeagent in 2009 and killed him.
Humanrightsorganization "Human rights and democracy activists in Iran" says that the man was named Hassan Armin(Mafi) and was a kickboxcoach and paralyzed on both legs due to the beatings in prison.
source: iranhr.net

In the Central Prison of Semnan January 31st, 2 men were hanged.
State media Jomhouri Islami wrote that the men, M.J, 49 from Tehran and H.A, 47
from Kashmer both were convicted for drugstrafficking and that their requests for amnesty were denied by the Amnesty Commission.
source: freedomessenger.com


According to reports, the cells of all political prisoners in Ward 350 of Evinprison were raided and searched while all political prisoners were transferred to the prison yard despite the fact that it was snowing.
They began chanting slogans “Ya Hossein… Mir Hossein” , “Mahmoud the Traitor” and “Death to the Dictator” and singing “Ey Iran” “Yareh Dabestani” and other songs, leading to reaction by women prisoners in Evin’s women’s ward 350 who joined in the slogans, forcing the agents to eventually leave the ward.
source: banouyesabz.blogspot.com



Last week webdesigners and bloggers Saeed Malekpour, Vahid Asghari, and Hossein Ronaghi Maleki were interrogated again by agents of Cyber Intelligence Unit of the Revolutionary Guards.They also put great pressure on the prisoners and demanded that they make false televised confessions.
Vahid Ashgar has been transferred to solitary confinement on January 31st, after being sentenced to death by judge Selavati. He is in since 2008 and is in bad psychological condition due to torture.
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been convicted to 15 years in prison and is in very bad health.
Malekpour is sentenced to death and his sentence is reinstated by the Supreme Court.
January 31st, the IRGC said in a statement to welcome the deathsentence.
source: freedomessenger, iranhumanrights.org



Leila Mohammadi a converted Christian who is detained in Evinprison for 5 months is sentenced to 2 years in prison.
She was charged with "broad anti-Islamic propaganda, by formation of a house church.
source: worthynews.com



Gunmen kidnapped 11 Iranian pilgrims.Reports say that they stole money and cellphones from the whole group (35 people ), and kidnapped the men.
source: tri-cityherald.com

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Political activist Hossein Naeimipour has been arrested.
Agents of the prosecutors office came to the house of his father, formed reformist member of parliament Mohammad Naeimipour and filmed every individual present.
Like his father, Hossein is member of Islamic Iran Participation Front (Mosharekat).
In 2009 he was campaignmember of Mousavi.
source: iranbriefing.net

President Ahmadinejad announced the budget gor the next Iranian calendaryear.
This budget is $510 billion. Approximately $400 billion from the budget is for statecompanies.
Compared to last year, the current sum is $2 billion more compared to last year budget.
source: en.trend.az


Iranbriefing.netpublished a portrait of Ghasem Soleimani, the probable choice of Khamenei as Irans' next president.
Soleimani is topcommander of IRGC.


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Iran: more

Januar 30th is in the prison of Zanjan a man hanged.
Fars newsagency reported that the not named man was sentenced for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net


Human Rights Watch stated that Iran immediately has to release dozens of union and labouractivists who recently were arrested.
Safety agents arrested yesterday the labouractivist Ali Akhavan in his house in Tehran. In recent weeks there was a crackdown on labouractivists.
Among them are Mohammad Jarahi, Shahrokh Zamani, Sheys Amani, Sharif Saedpanah and Mozafar Salehnia.
source: hrw.org, iranbriefing.net


Student activist and journalist Mohsen Sanatipour from Ferdowsi University in Mashhad and secretary of Allameh Group of the university, is sentenced to one year in prison.
The sentence is served to his lawyer last week and the judge summoned him to begin serving his sentence.
source: iranhumanrights.org

In recent days 4 IRGC-commandanders died without the usual condolences to their families from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he did however send his condolences to Ali Fadavi, commander of the IRGC naval forces, whose father recently died.
Guard chief Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari and former IRGC chief Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, even did not attend the memorials.
The four who had apparently fallen from grace are Mansoor Torkan 50, Dr. Vafa Ghaffarian 52, Ahmad Sayyafzadeh 55, and Abbas Mohri, 52.
The last years more commanders of IRGC died.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iran launched a satellite broadcast aimed at Spanish speakers worldwide, the name is HispanTV.
Since last year there were test-broadcasts.
Iran has already Arabic, Turkish, French and Urdu satellitebroadcasts. Also PressTV had a London office till January.
source: rferl.org

More then 2000 people mensen of Iran’s film community undersigned a petition against the Iranian government’s decision to ban the House of Cinema,.
Website Kaleme published the petition. Among the signatories are Majid Majidi, Kamal Tabrizi, Manouchehr Mohammadi, Ebrahim Hatami-Kia, Niki Karimi, Leila Hatami, Parviz Parastooei, Atila Pesyani and Shahab Hosseini.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

Last week an EU economic advisor said the Islamic republic still has several billions in Euros stashed in banks in Europe.
Farsnews reported that Iran had withdrawn all of its money from European banks.
According to the advisor Iran has funds deposited in accounts in Germany, Italy, Malta, Spain, Greece and Switzerland.
source: iranbriefing.net

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In the prison of Semnan were January 29 two people hanged.
The men, M. J.,49 and H. A. 47 were convicted for carrying respectively 1100 grams of heroin and 6180 grams of heroin.
The charges not have been confirmed by an independent source.
source: iranhr.net

The website of Human Rights and Democracy has reported that last week the Kurd Esmail Kermanjani, appr. 30 year-old is hanged in Evinprison.
He was already 6 years in prison.
The website reports that during the past few days, a number of other prisoners have also been executed in Evin prison.
source: HRHI


The Supreme Court confirmed the deathsentence of the Kurds Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi.
In December 2010 they were sentenced to death for the charge of moharebeh (enmity with God) and the murder of the son of Marivan’s Friday Imam.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that this was reported by prison authorities to the prisoners. Their lawyer was also surprised and said that he will be traveling to Tehran to follow up the case at the Supreme Court.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

In a Friday on opposition websites published letter which was written by Ahmad Sadr Haj-Seyed Javadi 7 months ago to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, he asks for an end to the house arrest of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, as well as the impeachment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for misconduct as president.
source: en.greenvoice.com

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Iran: more

January 28th was in the prison of Ilam a man hanged.
According to ISNA the man was convicted for murder and he once escaped from the prison by blowing the prison wall.
source: iranhr.net

Reports to the ACLJ say that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is still alive, but he is under great pressure of the Chief Justice of the Gilan Provincial Court to convert to islam.
Nadarkhani insists that he is a christian and has never been a moslim.
He was sentenced to death in June 2011 for apostacy.
source: aclj.org


Blogger and humanrights activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been transferred back to prison from the hospital. He had undergone surgery.
During the past year he had undergone 5x surgeries after a kidneytransplant.
HRHI says that he was taken back to prison despite the fact that it is imperative for him to receive continued medical care outside prison walls.
source: HRHI


Journalist Hassan Fathi who was arrested November 13th, at his house, is not allowed visitors and is according to his wife in solitary confinement.
He is charged with spreading lies and disturbing public opinion after he had an interview with BBC Persian regarding the explosion at an IRG ammunition depot that killed 17 Revolutionary Guards.
source: HRHI

weekly report 28 january 2012, violence against women

weekly report 28 january 2012, basic freedom and rights abused

weekly report 28 january 2012, arbitrary arrests and prison

weekly report 28 january 2012, inhumane treatment and cruel penalties

weekly report 28 january 2012, systematic violations of the right to life, execution

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Iran: portrait

Syrian rebels rebels say they are holding 7 Iranians hostage and will not release them until the government frees a rebel army officer and stops military operations in Homs.
As proof they showed a video which shows the seven Iranians, unshaven and wearing black shirts.
source: rferl.org, iranbriefing.net


Website Advar reported that January 22 Abdollah Momeni was taken to the infirmery of Evinprison with severe stomachpains. He refused to stay because he was assaulted and abused by the staff.
Other prisoners say that after some hours he was transferred back to the infirmary due to severe stomach pains.No one has seen or heard from him since then, suggesting that he might have been transferred to a different location.
His family is very concerned, because he had a short telephonecall with them, before.
source: HRHI


Six portraits of IRGC commanders:

Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza (Ali) Zahedi

Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani

Major Genera Mohammad Kosari

Brigadier General Mohammad Jafari Asadi.

Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali Farahani


The 2nd video in serie Angels of Iran is called: Faith and Sacrifice.

FAITH AND SACRIFICE: THE BAHA’IS IN IRAN from Education Under Fire on Vimeo.

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Iran: further

Iranian border guards have reportedly shot dead six Pakistanis and wounded two others after they strayed across Iran’s border.
source: rferl.org


The head of Justice in Bushehr announced that the perpetrators of the incident in the town of Abpakhsh will be publicly hanged.
The Public Relations Office of the Bushehr Judiciary said that the case is pursued by the court in Bushehr and were they sentenced to public hanging which sentence is confirmed by the Supreme Court.
source: freedomessenger



According to reports in Gohardashtprison inhumane pressure on political prisoners have increased.The reduction of food worsens.
The dinner was one egg, one potatoes and one piece of bread. This has been replaced by 15g halva and a small, thin piece of factory bread .
The quantity of all other meals given to prisoners has been lowered as well.
The head of Gohardasht Prison said that if sanctions were increased, the first people that would have to pay were political prisoners.
source: freedomessenger



January 21 security agents forced the door to the house of Bahai author and poet Enayatollah Sanai and searched the place. They took prayerbooks, cd's and cassettes.
Sanai was not at home and could not be arrested.
The arrestwarrant they used was expired.
source: HRHI


Human Rights House of Iran reports that interrogators of the cyber intelligence unit of IRGC gave an ultimatum at Saeed Malekpour to make a televised confession, in exchange for being transferred to Evin’s public ward and avoiding execution. Malekpour is sentenced to death for having a website with adult content.
He is already 3 years in jail.
source: HRHI


Shirin Ebadi called to a international campaign for the release of the 3 oppositionleaders Zahra Rahnavard, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mehdi Karroubi.
She also invited all her compatriots to boycott the staged elections on 2 March.
source:iranhumanrights.org

Podcast 46, Iran’s assault on free expression, an interview with Mehrad Vaezinejad and Niousha Masoumi

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