Iran: further August 18, 2012

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) reports that five ethnic Arabic prisoners in Kharoun prison in Ahwaz are sentenced to death.
Hashem Shabaninejad (poet, blogger and teacher in Arabic literature ), Hadi Rashedi (chemistryteacher), Mohammad Ali Amourinejad (blogger), Seyyed Jaber Alboshokeh and his brother Seyyed Mokhtar Alboshokeh.
They were all convicted for moharebeh and waiting for their appeal trial.
August 5 they were transferred by security agents from Karounprison in Ahwaz to a detention center runned by the Ministry of Information.
After 10 days they were brought back and it became clear that they had been severely tortured with result that their physical and mental conditions have deteriorated. Hadi Rashedi has a broken pelvis and Hashem Shabaninejad is in a coma. Shabaninejad's condition is critical.
source: iranhrdc.org





Sayeed Hassan Taheri, son of Ayatollah Sayeed Jalal Taheri Esfahani, former Imam Jama of Isfahan, has been sentenced to 4 year in prison and a 10 year exile from his city Zabol.
He has been sentenced for anti-regime propaganda, disturbing public order and insulting the leader.
source: iranbriefing.net

Thursday told the security police to the prayerleaders of the sunni prayercentra in Tehran that they had no rights to hold their Eid-prayers to mark the end of ramadan. After protests and discussions the security forces said that these orders were from high officials and that they could not accept the reasons.
source: daughtersofthelight.briefs.blogspot.nl


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Iran: eid-al-fitre August 17, 2012

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who had been sentenced to death will now be charged in a new trial for banditism and extortion.
Before he was charged with apostacy and converting to christianity and sentenced to death.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Several media report that 14 prisoners from Evinprison were flogged. Most of them were imprisoned after the elections of 2009.

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that a number of political prisoners, among them 7 journalists and netizens have been released from prison.
Yet they were treated like criminals and deprived of their freedom, some of them for more than two years, for covering government repression and corruption. They demand the immediate and unconditional release of all the other journalists and netizens who have been jailed unjustly.
source: en.rsf.org, rferl.org



List of released prisoners and prisoners whose sentence has been reduced:


1. Hamid Reza Izadi Yari

2. Ali Reza Akhavan

3. Behnam Nazari

4. Amir Bahmani

5. Mohsen Pour Rezyaii

6. Mohammad Reza Pounaki

7. Hassan Tabrizi

8. Mohammad Reza Ghaghi Nejad Kashani

9. Amir Ehsan Tehrani Sekhavat

10. Hossein Sabet

11. Mohsen Javadi Afzali

12. Abtin Jahaniyan

13. Hamid Reza Khadem

14. Abdol Reza Dehghan

15. Sepehr Ebrahimi

16. Ahmad Rabiee

17. Mehdi Rezaii

18. Arash Riki

19. Ali Salem

20. Ali Reza Samiee

21. Mohammad Hossein Sohrabirad

22. Ebrahim Shokouhi Zadeh

23. Hesam Shahsavari

24. Keyvan Shirazi

25. Mohammad Esmail Sahabeh Tabrizi

26. Soroush Safavordi

27. Reza Azizi

28. Mikael Azimi

29. Amir Maghamifar

30. Ali Akhavan

31. Sarang Etehadi

32. Naser Azarnia

33. Masoum Fardis

34. Moshtagh Forouharpak

35. Erfan Ghanehifard

36. Amir Abdollah Kazemi

37. Mohammad Mehdi Kariman Eghbal

38. Mehdi Kouhkan

39. Ali Reza Kia

40. Amir Latifi

41. Farzan Matini Asl

42. Ramin Chavoshi

43. Rahman Bouzari

44. Shahab Dehghani

45. Adel Mohammad Hosseini

46. Ali Mostafaee

47. Hamid Reza Moghadasi

48. Ali Mollahaji

49. Ali Malihi

50. Houman Mousavi

51. Reza Moulavi

52. Poriya Naderi

53. Navid Nezhat

54. Omid Norouzian

55. Ali Nazari

56. Mehdi Farahani

57. Mazdak Ali Nazari

58. Ashkan Alhiyari

59. Mohammad Javad Shahpari

60. Farshad Ghorbanpour Sheykhani

61. Arash Rahai Mehr

62. Ayoub Ghanbarpourian

63. Ali Goudarzi

64. Mojtaba Ahmadi

65. Amir Ali Agha Yari

66. Javad Rastjou

67. Ali Reza Samiee

68. Hoda Arab Oladi

69. Hamzeh Karami

Gevangenen waarvan de straf is ingekort:

1. Reza Ansari Rad - sentence reduced with 1/2

2. Saeed Mahmoudi Bagheri – sentence reduced with 1/2

3. Abdollah Jafari – sentence reduced with 1/2

4. Mohammad Reza Goli Zadeh Akhlaghi – sentence reduced with 1/2

5. Javad Toumari –sentence reduced with 1/2

6. Ali Akbar Mohammad Zadeh –sentence reduced with 1/2

7. Omid Kharazmiyan –sentence reduced with 2/3

8. Kazem Motamed – sentence reduced with 2 jaar

9. Ahmad Karimi – sentence reduced with 2 jaar

Released women from  Evin Prison:


1.Nazanin Khosravani

2. Sadaf Sabetiyan

3. Mojgan Mohammadian

4. Shamim Zeyn Alabedini

5. Ashraf Alikhani

6. Masoumeh Yavari

7. Mitra Aali

Ghasem Sholeh Sadi and Ghaslani Pour, two political prisoners from ward 350 who had completed their full sentences were also released.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com


Some political prisoners and their families, including Abdolfattah Soltani, Mohammad Davari, and Abdolreza Ghanbari, requested a transfer for a medical treatment.
Some political prisoners Abdollah Momeni, Zia Nabavi, Shabnam Madadzadeh, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Issa Saharkhiz, Reza Shahabi, Majid Tavakoli, Massoud Bastani, and Mohammad Seifzadeh, were not granted a furlough.
source: iranhumanrights.com


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Iran: more, August 16, 2012

The lawyer of Houtan Kian says that his client has been tortured and transferred to the ward for methadone addicts.
Kian was arrested in October 2010 and has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
source: freedomessenger



On August 8 Kurdish illegal trader Saleh Baduzadeh,25 from Shivan village in Salmas, has been killed by border guards. Iranian borderguards shoot at illegal traders without warning and it lefts hundreds deaths and their animals in the year.
source: freedomessenger




Several "personalities" from Iranian society wrote a letter to ayatollah Khamenei that apparently suggests moves that could dilute the powers of President Ahmadinejad.
Website Fardanews quotes an unnamed parliamentarian who says that the letter had been received by Khamenei but that he hadn't responded yet.
source: rferl.org



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Iran: further August 15, 2012

American secretary of defense said that Iran is working in Syria with a pro-Assad militia in Syria. He said there is proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is in Syria forming a new militia.
source: iranbriefing.net


Political activist Omid Dehdarzade from Ahwaz had been sentenced some months ago to 6 months probation, 75 lashes and a financial fine on charges of harming national security, membership of a Pan-Iran party and distribution of prohibited brochures.
source: iranbriefing.net

OAugust 11 the workers of Mazandaran Textile demonstrated at the offices of Ghaemshahr governor.They are owed 26 months of back payment.
Mazandaran Textile comprises of Talar Textiles, Tabarestan Textiles, Fine Nice Sacks and Tajan Textiles.
The deathtoll at the explosion of A6gust 3 at the Bandar Imam petrochemical complex has risen to 6.
Because of the earthquakes in Tabriz many factories did close down.
On August 13 600 workers from Metal Work Industries closed the Fath Freeway direction Tehran. The workers were demanding eight months of back pays and 11 months of unemployment insurance payments.
source: iranlaborreport

Media report that most of the victims of the earthquake are women and children. According to PressTV 3,037 people were wounded.
source: freedomessenger


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Iran: aid August 14, 2012

Human rightsorganizations say that familymembers of Adel Naimi, Shamim Naimi and Elham Farhani who last month were arrested by security forces since then they had heard nothing from them.
source: iranbriefing.net

The earthquakes from Saturday caused a damage of over $650 million.
The deputy-governor of East-Azerbaijan says that there is a possibility that the costs will increase,
IRNA writes that Iran is willing to accept foreign aid for the victims of the earthquake.
A spokeswoman of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told VOA that the group is working closely with Iran's Red Crescent and that 6,000 tents had set up to accommodate an estimated 16,000 people who are displaced.
source: mehrnews.com, voanews.com

India has joined Japan in offering government-backed insurance for oiltankers transporting Iranian oil to avoid EU sanctions.
These sanctions nearly halved Iranian oil exports.
The first Indian ship to carry oil from Iran with Indian insurance is scheduled to load up in Iran on Wednesday.
source: en.trend.az

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Iran: still shaken, August 13, 2012

The earthquakes on Saturday had a bigger deathtoll then the original count of 250.
The latest death toll stood at 306, with more than 3,000 injured.
The Iranian Red Crescent said it has given emergency shelter to thousands of people so far and is sending in more supplies.
Statetelevision reported that 44.000 food packages and thousands of blankets were being handed out.
It is also reported that hospitals in the region are overcrowded.
source: VPAneww.com, rferl.org

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Iran: earthquake, August 12, 2012

Two earthquakes in Azerbaijan province, measuring 6.4 and 6.3 magn. on Richter scale Saturday cost the lives of more then 250 people. .

Another 1800 people got wounded. The earthquakes occurred near the city of Tabriz, in the villages Varzaghan, Ahar and Khajeh.According to Fars Newsagency more then 110 villages were damaged, 4 of them were fully destroyed.
Photos here and here.
source: irs.ut.ac, guardian.co.uk,english.farsnews.com,payvand.com,vancouversun.com

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Iran: protest August 11, 2012

Research by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran revealed that currently 28 Kurdish political and security prisoners are sentenced to death in the prisons of Sanandaj, Orumiyeh, Semnan, Rajaee Shahr, and Saghez.
Seventeen of these individuals have received finalized death sentences and 11 have been sentenced to death at their trials in lower courts, and are now awaiting appeals.
The names those sentenced to death are:
1) Habibollah Latifi, 2) Rashid Akhkandi, 3) Mostafa Salimi, 4), Shirkoo Moarefi, 5) Habibollah Golparipour, 6) Zanyar Moradi, and 7) Loghman Moradi.
10 other individuals are also sentenced to death in one case on charges of “membership in a Salafist religious group”. All have been sentenced to death and their sentences have been upheld.
The names of the 11 individuals who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting the appeals court decision are:
1) Samkoo Khorshidi, 2) Sirvan Nazhavi, 3) Ebrahim Isapur, 4) Razgar (Habib) Afshari, 5) Ali Afshari, 6) Houshang Rezaei, 7) Reza Esmaeeli, 8) Behrouz Alkhani, 9) Seyed Sami Hosseini, 10) Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, and 11) Bakhtiar Memari.
Familymembers of Fakhreddin Faraji, Changiz Ghadamkheir, and Shouresh Rezaei, who were arrested at armed clashes have been informed that they be charged with “moharebeh” and will be sentenced to death.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Unionactivist and member of Council for the Establishment of Labor Unions, Shahrokh Zamani,47 who is imprisoned in Tabriz and is sentenced to 11 years in prison, had been transferred for unknown reasons to the unit with dangerous criminals.
source: iranbriefing.net

August 6th protested more then 40 employees of Larestan Communication Company at the governor’s offices. The workers were protesting changes in their contracts from full time to part time.
August 3 more then 500 preschoolteachers and temporary instructors at vocational and technical colleges protested at parliament. The instructors were protesting their expulsion from the ministry of education while the main demand of the preschool teachers was to become employees of the ministry of education. The protesting instructors and preschool teachers have ten years of teaching experience.
source: iranlaborreport

Iran plans to join those nations which abandon the internet, for their intranet.
The head of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology said on a conference at Amir Kabiruniversity that the WWW is unthrustworthy and in the hands of one or two nations.
He also said that the country's government ministries and state bodies will go offline this September as part of an effort to protect national intelligence.
source: businessinsider.com


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Iran: witness, August 10, 2012

witness statement from Shirku Jahani

witness statement from Kaveh Tahmasebi

witness statement from Malaekeh Alamhooli

witness statement from Amir Ahmadi

witness statement from Kajal Sheikmohammadi

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Iran: pressure August 9, 2012

Human Rights Activists reported Tuesday that security forces in Khuzestan province 19 Iranian Arabs from the sunni minority had arrested. According to the organization it is common practice for the security forces to round up citizens with Sunni Arab backgrounds ahead of Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan.
source: iranbriefing.net

Media Wednesday reported that the 48 Iranian hostages in Syria all travelled to Damascus with the help of a travel agency owned by the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps.Contrary to Tehran’s claims that they are simply pilgrims, they have strong ties to the Guards.
They travelled in six buses from Tehran to Damascus when the last bus in the convoy was stopped at a checkpoint set up by the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
An employee of the tour agency told that everyone on this trip was either a Guard or a Basij.
source: english.alarabya.net

190 Iranian political and human rights activists, and media personalities wrote a letter to secretary-general Ban-ki-Moon to urge him to take “practical steps” for the release of political prisoners in Iran.
source: iranbriefing.net

In recent days were different Iranian websites hacked, among them the site of Tehran watercompany. The attacks are to protest against Iran's nuclear plans.
source: cyberwarnews.info


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Iran: more, August 8, 2012

Iran won 3 Greco-Roman gold medals at the Olympics in London..
Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei Tuesday won gold in 96-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling.
Hamid Soryan and Omid Noroozi were already gold-winners.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com





According to American Center for Law and Justice are beside Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, two more pastors persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Pastors Farshid Fathi and Behnam Irani are in prison. Fathi is in Evinprison serving a 6 year prisonsentence. He was arrested in December 2010 and is convicted for acting against national security and possession of religious propaganda, including bibles.
Pastor Behnam Irani, 41 is in Ghezal Hezar prison. Officially he is not charged with apostacy but with Christian activities” that amounted to "actions against the regime" .
source: catholovnewsagency.com



Reported is that blogger Mohammad Hassan Roozitaleb is sentenced to four months in prison for insulting the Larijani brothers, heads of the legislative and judicial authorities.
He referred to them as the Brothers Dictatorship.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian f8reign minister said that some of 48 abducted Iranians in Syria are retired revolutionary guardsmembers.
Syrian rebels said earlier that the abducted Iranians were revolutionary guards.
source: rferl.org



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Iran: value, August 7, 2012

Reported is that in Yazd and Isfahan the Bahai Tahere Rezaei from Shahin-Shahr, Khosro Deghani from Vilashahr and Naqmeh Farabi from Najafabad were  arrested. They were brought to Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.
source: freedomessenger



Social activist Ahmed Muradi from Kurdistan has been questioned afte publication of a statement in support of the hunger strike by political prisoner Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand..
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian foreign minister visits today Turkey to discuss the release of 48 Iranians who are abducted by Syrian rebels.
Iranian authorities say those abducted were pilgrims but the rebels said they were members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria on a "reconnaissance mission."
source: rferl.org

At Iran's valutamarket hit the rial an all time low. A rial traded at 20,450 for a dollar. The official exchange rate for a dollar is set at 12,260 rials by Iran's Central Bank.
source: payvand.com

Iranian police says that in a period from 15 days in different cities of the country 60.000kg(60 tonnes) live and slaughtered bootleg poultry was confiscated.
The report comes amid a political furore over the cost of chicken, which has risen up to 80,000 rial (£4.20) per kilogram in the past year.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: directed August 6th, 2012

At an interview with opposition website Kaleme said the spokesman of Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope, that the release of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi is the only way out of the country’s current crisis. According to him without national reconciliation, there will be no way out of the current international and domestic deadlock.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com



EU removed the names of five bankdirectors of its blacklist after these individuals filed a suit.
Ali Divandari, director of Mellat Bank, Abdolnasser Hemmati, director of Sina Bank and Mohammadreza Mesgaran, Saeed Zavar and Ahmad Azizi, acting managers at Melli Bank in London, are removed from EU's blacklist.
source: radiozamaneh.com

IRNA reported that president Ahmadinejad in a meeting with the speaker of Pakistan Senate said that the borders regions between Iran and Pakistan should be the most active ones in terms of trade and commercial transactions. The people in those regions from Iran and Pakistan are only divided by geographical borders but have numerous cultural commonalities.
source: en.trend.az



Iranian statetelevision on Sunday broadcast purported confessions from 14 suspects of the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010. The suspects were eight men and six women.
Some names of the suspects are: Behzad Abdoli,Arash Kheradkish,, Jamali Fashi, Maziar Ebrahimi,
The suspects said that the assassination control room was in Tel Aviv, but it was receiving the orders from Washington and London. It is not known if the 14 suspects have been tried.
source: ibnlivr.in.com


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Children are being hanged to death.

A child will be hanged to death.

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