Iran: international Womans Day

In the prison of Rajaee Shahr is last week a man hanged.
The man. Mehdi Esmaeili (26) was convicted for a murder he committed when he was 19 years old.
source: iranhr.net



Today is International Womans Day.
On the site of Global Freedom Movement is a map where everybody can join the women of Iran in virtual presence to support them.
The site globalfree.wordpress.com explains how.






Human Rights Watch has urged Iran March 5th to free the detained supporters of the mourning mothers immediately.
Omolbanin Ebrahimi, Elham Ahsani, Jila Karamzadeh-Makvandi, Fatemeh Rastegari, Leila Seifollahi and Farzaneh Zeinali.
These women are imprisoned for some weeks without being allowed to see their families or having access to their lawyers, and it is not clear whether authorities have informed the women of the reasons for their arrest.
Article 9 from International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), in which Iran is a party, forbids arbitrary arrests.
source: hrw.org



March 6th Human Rights Watch published a statement in which she urges Iran to stop underming womans rights.
source: hrw.org


Member of OnemillionsignaturesCampaign Khadijeh Moghaddam is found guilty of “assembly and conspiracy with intent to act against national security, ” and sentenced to 1 year suspended in prison with a period of 5 years.
She is acquitted of “propaganda against the regime” and “disobedience of police orders” .
The co-defendant,Dr. Khosro Shahi, her husband, was acquitted from the charge of “propaganda against the regime.” Khosro Shahi had been charged for interviews he gave two years ago during his wife’s detention
source: persian2english










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Womansrightsactivist Shiva Nazar Ahari was arrested December 10, 2009 and is detained inEvinprison.This is her second arrest.
She was arrested shortly after the election and detained for 100 days of which 30 days were in solitary confinement.
She wrote an article entitled: When Going to the Bathroom Becomes a Means of Torture!.
source: RAHANA


The Coordination Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organization (CCHFWO) published on her website the names of the activists who were arrested in the past days.
February 27, was Fattah Soleimani, member of CCHFWO, arrested in his house in Oshnaviyeh.
4 other members of CCHFWO, Rahman Ebrahim Zadeh, Hossein Pirvati, Samad Ahmadpour and Rahman Tanha, were also arrested in Oshnaviyeh on Februar 27 along with the activist Isa Ebrahimzadeh.
Abbas Hashempoor,laboractivist was arrested March 2 in Oshnaviyeh by agents of the ministry of information.
Additionally, 5 other members of the committee have been summoned to criminal and revolutionary courts in Sanandaj.
source: RAHANA




Zainab Jalalian was arrested 2 years ago for alleged links to Pejak, an armed Kurdish group. She was found guilty of Moharebeh (enmity with God) and sentenced to death.
The verdict was upheld in appeal in December of 2009 and can be carried out at any moment.
According to Irangreenvoice is Jalalian last week transferred from a correctional institute in Kermanshah to a facility of the ministry of intelligence in the same city.
Currently are 17 Kurds on deathrow:
1-Zainab Jalalian
2-Habib Lotfi
3-Shirkoo Mo’arefi
4-Jamal Mohammadi
5-Sami Hosseini
6-Rostam Arkia
7-Rashid Akhkandi
8-Hossein Khezri
9-Farzad Kamangar
10-Ali Haydarian
11-Farhad Vakili
12-Mostafa Salimi
13-Anvar Rostami
14-Mohammad Amin Agooshi
15-Iraj Mohammadi
16-Ahmad Pouladkhani
17-Hossein Tale’i
source: RAHANA





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Nima Latif Tojjar has been arrested December 27 at the university.
Judge Salavati at branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court has sentenced him to 3 years in prison and a fine of $100.
The verdict reads two years for “assembly and conspiracy with intent to act against national security” and one year for “resisting police orders.”
The fine was given for one count of “insulting the president.”
He was acquitted on one count of “causing damage to public property".
Latif has no history of political activities.
source: persian2english


According to Human Right Activists News Agency (HRANA),is Seyyed Mehdi Khodaei, student activist and former head of Human Rights Committee student's unit, vanished after widespread raids against Human Rights Activists’ (HRA) members on March 2nd and 3rd, 2010.
It is possible that he is arrested by the ministry of information.
Khodaei was recently sentenced to 4 years in prison by branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court.
The ministry of information tried to arrest at least 27 current or former members of HRA.
source: persian2english

On Ashura and Tasua (December 26-27), more then 3750 trees were cut in the Zagros Forests in province Lorestan.
Every year thousands of trees are cut illegally for the bonfires on ashura and tasua.
In 2006 3000 near Tehran were illegally cut near Tehran.
The bonfires and its environmental impact on air pollution in Tehran forced the Tehran Natural Resources Office to press charges against the city.
Despite legislation which bans construction of industrial parks or mining activities in preserved areas, government and private sector developers often bend the regulations in their favour.
source: RAHANA



Amnesty International has urged Iran to release journalist and womansrightsactivist Hengameh Shahidi immediately.
Last week Shahidi started serving a six-year sentence at Tehran's Evin Prison, after an appeal court ruling upheld her conviction.



De Sahamnews website reports that the passport of Mohammad Taghi Karoubi, a son of Mehdi Karroubi and university professor was taken Friday at the international Imam Khomeini.
Mohammad Karroubi was traveling to London for academic activities, including the re-publication of his book on international law and the use of unilateral force by countries and completion of another.
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Farzan Hakimzadeh, 4th year student at Amir Kabir University, was arrested on Ashura (December27) and transferred to a isolation cell in Gohardasht Prison which is run by the IRGC. Following interrogation and torture, he was subsequently transferred to ward 4 in section 12 of the prison.
Currently a number of Ashura detainees are held in ward 4 of section 12.
They include 15 friends and members of the Shadmehr family.
Zavosh Shadmehr, a Sharif University student, and his father are among the Shadmehr family members.
source: RAHANA


A group of textileworkers from the Simin textile factory protested in front of the office of the governor of Isfahan to protest their unpaid wages.
They have not been paid in 6 months and were told by the management not to expect any New Year bonuses or other benefits.
The management is not interested in the workers problems and told them that they are free to protest but their protest will go nowhere.
When asked why they keep working without pay, one of the workers told that they have no choice and that things only get worse.
source: RAHANA



Over the past few months, a large number of merchants and residents of the border region in Kurdistan province have been killed by securityforces.The government wants to hand $100 bloodmoney to the familymembers of the victims.
Also merchants have been warned to stop using their horses to carry merchandise. This has led to a wave of discontent among the residents.
Securityforces forced a group of about 70 border merchants to walk barefoot in the snow from a border crossing to the police station in Jazniava village.
source: RAHANA


Radio Zamaneh reports that the commemoration of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first prime minister of Iran an the leader of National Movement of Iran on March 5 is banned.
The authorities have called on the Mosaddegh family and the councillors of Ahmadabad to officially announce the cancellation.
Mossadegh died in 1967 on the age of 84 years.
source: Radio Zamaneh

The father of member of OneMillionsignatures Campaign Dorsa Sobhani is March 4, physical and verbally assaulted by six securityagents when he left the house.
Yesterday her house was searched, but she was not at home.
He was handcuffed and blindfolded and he was interrogated for four hours.
Security officials warned that if he does not hand his daughter over to the Ministry of Intelligence by Saturday, he and his wife and younger daughter will be placed under arrest and their home will be taken away from them.
source: persian2english




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Iran: religion

According to the public relationsite of the judiciary in Khuzestan was yesterday in Karounprison in Ahwaz an amputationsentence carried out at a person. The man Shoghi Z. and was convicted of armed robbery and Moharebeh.
The report did not say which bodypart was amputated, but moharebeh can be sentenced with amputation of the right arm and left foot.
Official Iranian sources say that this is the fifth case of amputation in the city of Ahwaz during the last 12 months.
Also was in Lalehsquare in the city Sosangerd ( province Khuzestan,) a man lashed.
The man, Mehdi H. was convicted of disrupting the order.
The report did not mention how many lashes the person was punished with.
source: iranhr.net


Womansrightactivist and member of the Onemillionsignatures campaign Mahboobeh Karami has been arrested March 2 by security agents who also searched her house and confiscated personal belongings of her and her brother Mohsen Karimi.
According to her brother the agents presented a warrant that was dated March 26, 2009 and cited participation in riot and illegal gatherings as the reason for arrest.
This is the 5th arrest of Mahboobeh Karami, who was arrested twice in relation to 1999 student protests.The third time was June 13, 2008 for acting against national security and she was released 70 days later.
March 26, 2009 she was arrested along with 11 other members of the Campaign as they were on their way to pay a Nowruz visit to the family of Zahra Bani Yaghoub. They were released 13 days later.
She was acquitted of all charges.
There is still no information on her whereabouts.
source: RAHANA



March 1 were the houses of 5 Bahai families in Marvdasht in Shiraz searched and people were arrested.
Farahnaz Ashnayi, Tayebeh Fallah, Jahanbakhsh Bazrafkan, Hasan Bazrafkan and Nozar Fallah have been arrested and personal belongings were taken.
Ighan Shahidi, who is denied university admission for being from Bahai faith is arrested in Kermanshah.
Sama Nourani, an expelled student from Sahand University has been arrested March 3 in Shiraz.
CHRR reports that 6 agents in Sari searched the house of Dorsa Sobhani, an activist from the OneMillionsignatures Campaign and took a number of items. The agents were not able to arrest Sobhani who was not home.
The whereabouts of Ighan Shahidi, 21 and Sama Nourani 20, are unknown and there is no information of the reasons of their arrests.
source: RAHANA

Reverend Wilson Issavi, the Assyrian leader of the Evangelical Church of Kermanshah has been arrested February 2. His house was searched , his church was sealed and his parishioners became under watch.
His wife says he is detained in an unknown prison at the Old Shahin-Shahr Road.
She only was allowed to visit him once. She told that he had visible marks of torture on his body and was in a dreadful condition.
He is accused of baptism and s well as converting muslims to christianity and is "awaiting his trial and his death sentence".
February 28 intelligence agents raided the house of Hamid Shafiee and his wife Reyhaneh Aghajari, two of Isfahan’s wellknown house-church leaders.
They were arrested and transferred to an unknown location and a number of their personal belongings were seized by the agents.
In the past few months under government’s pressure the Assemblies of God Church had to stop Friday evening meetings and the Assyrian Pentecostal church of ‘Shahre Ara’ in Tehran was forced to close its doors.
source: RAHANA



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The member of Committee for Human Rights Reporters CHRR Navid Khanjani was arrested at his house by 7 intelligence agents who also searched the house.
Over the past few years, Khanjani, who was banned from studying in university because of his Baha’i faith, has been involved in a number of campaigns for students’ rights .
Including his arrest 7 members of the CHRR were arrested: Shiva Nazar Ahari, Koohyar Gudarzi, Saeed Jalaifar, Saeed Kalanaki, Saeed Ha’eri and Mehrdad Ha’eri .
source: RAHANA



March 1, the Bahai Zavosh Shadmehr, Ebrahim Shadmehr, Zhinoos Sobhani (Ghazanfari), Lava Khanjani (Mobasher), Farid Rohani and Mona Misaghi (Hovaydayi) were released against bail.
February 28 is Nika Hovaydayi released and Artin Ghazanfari is released March 2 against a bail from $30.000 .
Babak Mobasher, Payam Fanaian and Mehrdad (Ahmad) Rohani are detained 57 days.
Behfar Khanjani and Afshin Eighani, two Baha’i from Semnan who were arrested January 6th, were released against $300.000 and $150.000 bail at March 2 and Leva Khanjani, who was arrested op 3 January, is released March 1.
Ebrahim Shadmehr, Zavash Shadmehr and Farid Rohani who were arrested December 27 were released.
source: RAHANA



Reports say that Mohammad Amin Valian, 20,member of Islamic Student Association from Damghan University is sentenced to death for his participation at the Ashuraprotests.
According to Irangreenvoice this verdict is confirmed by the Appeals Court and can be carried out any time.
The Tehran prosecutor announced last month that one of nine, not nearer specified, Ashuradetainees is sentenced to death.
There has been no official confirmation yet.
source: RAHANA


Reports mention that the students who were arrested, or got injured at the violent attack on the students campus last July, were suspended by the university's disciplinary committee.Most of the punished students had to face other disciplinary and restrictive measures in the beginning of the school year, but the recent rulings are more severe.
The new actions are initial reaction to the dormitory attack video (broadcast by BBC) which leaked out.
source: persian2english




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Iran: ascertainment

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is yesterday evening arrested along with his wife Mahnaz Mohammadi, their daughter and some 15 guests.
Agents of the Ministry of Information searched their house and seized a number of items.
There is still no information on their whereabouts.
Panahi was briefly detained this summer in Behesht-Zahra cemetery after he brought flowers to the graves of the protesters killed in the aftermath of the June presidential election. Later he was banned from leaving the country to go to the Berlin Film Festival.
source: RAHANA

Mansour Osanloo was arrested in July 2007 to serve his 5 years prisonterm. In August 2008 he was transferred to Rajai-Shahr prison in Karaj.
This prison is reserved for dangerous convicts. This is in contravention to the law that requires the separation of prisoners based on the nature of their charges.
Since last year Osanloo has been attacked everal times by the violent inmates. The office of the Medical Examiner ruled that Osanloo is physically unfit to serve his sentence,He is in a ward with killers and other violent criminals.
His wife Parvaneh told that in the past days fellowprisoners tried to stab him. She fears for his life.
They are still pursuing the efforts to enforce the order issued by the Medical Examiner (which declared him unfit to serve his sentence), but nothing has happened.
source: RAHANA


Reformist newspapers Etemaad and Iran Dokht have been banned in Iran.
Iran Dokht is a reformist weekly where Mehdi Karroubi's son is in charge.
The newspaper Etemaad is accused of breaching media laws.

source: BBC




Feministschool has published a letter (fa) by Iranian women activists to Mousavi and Karroubi where they voice their demands of the Iranian women.
The letter emphasizes that during the post-election events, even the little promises disappeared from the announcements and interviews regarding the intention to pursue peoples’ rightful demands.
And this happens, while women and girls of this land have had a distinguished role in the green movement in pursuing the plundered rights of the Iranian people, have been in the front line of the green movement equal to men, and even have paid and are paying a higher price.
Don't forget that Iranian women in order to achieve their demands, voted for the reformist campaign promises, and those demands are impregnated in the green movement’s demands.
Women of Iran expect that their demands, side by side with other political and social demands, be addressed and pursued in a distinguished way.
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Iran: interviewings

Judge Salavati overturned the ruling about bail for Mohammad Reza Moghiseh. His family posted the $500,000 borg bail and was expecting his release, when they found out.
Moghiseh, journalist and editor-in-chief of Bist-Saleha magazine, was arrested on October 14th and sentenced to 6 years in jail.
He is also a member of the the committee formed after the election to follow up on the post-election detainees and victims.
source: RAHANA


Members of Committee of Human Rights Reporters were permitted to meet their familymembers.
Shiva Nazar-Ahari has been n the third investigatory branch of the Revolutionary Court.
Kouhyar Goudarzi is according to his mother in bad physical and psychological state. He is still accused of moharebe.
Saeed Haeri and Mehrdad Rahimi and Taheri, a member of Freedom Crusade are transferred to more convenient cells.
Currently are six members of the Committee for Human Rights Reporters detained in Evin prison. Saeed Jalalifar and Saeed Kalanki, the other two members of the Committee are already 100 days in Evinprison.
source: persian2english.com


Released prisoners s are informed that they are to be summoned to Evin prison to hold interviews in the prisonenvironment praising Supreme Leader.
The interrogators contact them after their release.
According to Jaras the script of the interview is handed to the prisoner and they are expected to read from the script to pledge support to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader.
This include both those who have been given a ruling and those who have not.
The prisoners are also threatened by the fact that if they don't cooperate, they will be arrested and imprisoned during Nowruz (Iranian New Year), their files will be sent for further reviews, and/or their court sentence will increased.
The newspaper Haei a largely reformist paper, has been contacted and compelled to publish the interviews.
The most recent development is that prisoners are being accompanied to ILNA to give reports immediately after their release. This has been done with ISNA in the past.
Sometimes they are contacted weeks or months after their release and a former prisoner told that there is no difference between home and prison for them, the whole country has turned into a big prison.
source: persian2english.com


A tweet on Twitter informed that yesterday 20 prisoners were released from Rejaie Shahr prison in Karaj.


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