Iran: more December 18, 2012

In the prison of Kashan is on December 17 one man hanged.
The report says that the man was arrested in 2009 and he is convicted for keeping and trafficking of 681 grams of crack.
The man was not named.
source: iranhr.net

A commander of IRGC said on Monday that Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) plans to hold military drills in the Street of Hormuz before the end of the Iranian calendaryear (March 20).
The exact date and nature of the drills were not mentioned.
source: iranbriefing.net




Nika en Nava Kholosi two bahai sisters from Mashhad had been arrested two months ago and are in jail since.
No reason for their arrest has been given to their families.
source: iranbriefing.net

In Tabas, Yazd province a colemine collapsed, killing 4 miners and another four missing. The probable cause is an explosion of gas.
According to officials the explosion blocked the main entranc to the tunnel.
source: dailystar.com

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei announced on December 13 a Facebookpage. For more than five years the office of Khamenei is active on the internet and he has a Twitteraccount with 72.000 followers and 32000 tweets and an Instagramaccount.
Meanwhile the Iranian government blocks websites, including Facebook and Twitter and Iranian users can only access them through proxies.
source: radiozamaneh.com

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Iran: more December 17, 2012

Iran critized the EU for awarding the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi

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The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the EU had a political goal by giving the prize and should focus on rights shortcomings inside the EU.
source: rferl.org




Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani , son of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been released on bail on December 16, 2012, following completing the investigation.
He was arrested in September accused of inciting unrest following the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
source: rferl.org

Antiviruscompany Symantec said that Iranian authorities discovered a new computervirus that wipes files on different drives in various predefined times. It also wipes files from the desktop.
According to CERTCC.ir it is not a complicated virus without being recognized by anti-virus software.
source: security.nl


The naval chief of Revolutionary Guard said that Iran captured at least 2 other American drones before unveiling the capture of the ScanEagle earlier this month.
Newsagency IRNA did not report when this happened.
source: dailystar.com


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Iran: labor December 16 2012

The prices for electricity will increase veey strong next year.
Mehrnews reported that the deputy energy minister said that prices must rise to four times. He also said that Members of Parliament have already agreed to the increase, and the adjustments may come in two or three stages.
source: radiozamaneh

December 21 is Shalda Yalda and the birthday of student activist Zia Nabavi. Currently he is serving a prisonterm of 10 years in exile.
Persian2english calls for action to show solidarity and as a birthdaygift.
Among other things people can tweet a birthdaygreeting to Zia Nabavi with the hashtag #ZiaBDAY that wil, be collected by activists and compiled to create a large birthday card that will be sent to his family.
source: persian2english

On December 2 museum workers in Tehran staged a protest gathering by Cultural Heritage Organization demanding their backwages.
December 4 is an amendment to Labor Law sent to parliament.
While, the text of the amendment was not made public, on the basis of available leaks, it was found to be extremely limiting of some workers’ rights.
December 2 workers of Ahvaz Sugar Factory and their families staged a protest for 22 months of back wages and bonuses by the state office.
The economic tol due to sanctions and recession.
source: iranlaborreport


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Iran: more December 15 2012

US added sanctions to seven Iranian companies and five nuclear experts who work the uranium enrichment program.
Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani, the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), and Morteza Ahmadali Behzad, the managing director of Iran Enrichment Company,are two of the individuals.
Aria Nikan Marine Industry, the government led Iran Pooya, which manufactures aluminum cylinders, and Faratech, are among the companies.
source: freedomessenger

Reports of Iranians in exile.

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Iran: more December 14 2012

According to reports on Kaleme website Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard accompanied by  a large number of female and male security agents and prison guards present visited the elderly parents of Zahra Rahnavard.

Their daughters were not allowed to be present and continue to be banned from all visits.
source: banoyesabz.wordpress.com



Sanaz Tafazoli a female bahai from Mashhad has been brought to Vakil Abad prison to serve a prisonsentence of 6 months.
In this prison are 6 other female bahai prisoners Sima Eshraghi, Rozita Vaseghi, Nahid Ghadiri, Dori Amri, Nika Kholousi and Nava Kholousi.
source: freedomessenger



Human Rights Watch says that the rights in civil society in Iran have been worsened since the elections of 2009.
In a report HRW writes that dat 3½ years after the elections hundreds of activists have sought temporary refuge and an uncertain future in neighboring Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan.
The 62-page report “Why they Left: Stories of Iranian Activists in Exile,” documents that dozens of rightsdefenders, journalists, bloggers, and lawyers were targeted by security and intelligence forces because they spoke out against the government.
Some of this people had never been politically active before.
source: hrw.org

Little progress has been made in the talks between IAEA and Iran on December 13.
The UN nuclear inspectors and Iran have agreed to meet again on January 16.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: more December 13, 2012

In a letter to Sadeq Larijani, Head of Iranian justice,  asks political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani to stop the Intelligence Ministry interrogators’ harassment of the families of political prisoners.
The letter was published on website Kaleme.
source: iranhumanrightd.org

A source in the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says that Iran infiltrated a group of 10 terroristleaders of the Quds Force in USA to attack from within in 2013. The members of the team lead cells from about 50 terrorists.
The source said the team is to create instability in America through terrorism should the U.S. fail to accept the regime’s nuclear program, increase sanctions, confront Iran militarily or intervene in the Syrian civil war.
source: iranbriefing.net



According to the Tehran prosecutor were in buildings in Tehran 28 people arrested for links to foreign-based TV networks advocating the Baha’i religion.
source: freedomessenger.com




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Iran: defend December 12, 2012

Incarcerated journalist Mahsa Amrababdi was arrested in 2009 and 2010 and sentenced to 1 year in prison without suspension and 4 years of suspended prison.
May 11 2012 she was summoned to serve her 1 year prisonterm in Evinprison.
On the occasion of the 200th day of her incarceration her mother wrote a letter.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a letter explaining the reasons that led to her 49 days of hungerstrike to protest the travel ban on her 12-year-old daughter.
She expresses hope that family punishments will be eliminated from the list of government policies of threats and pressure.
source: iranhumanright.org

The pressure on Iranian lawyers is increasing.As a result arrested activists cannot find a lawyer. They are dependent of state-appointed lawyers who make little attempts to defend.
source: BBC


Fars newsagency wrote that the deputy head of the justice department said that Iran indictedt 18 American officials for  involvement in crimes against Iran.He added that charges against the Americans include involvement in terrorist attacks.
The men were not named and it is unknown if that any of the men is present in Iran.
source: dailystar.com




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Iran: accused December 11, 2012

In the prison of Semnan is on December 10 a man hanged.
The man, M. H. has been convicted of carrying 3470 grams of crack.
source: iranhr.net

Two of the 37 wounded students at the fire in the elementary school in Piranshahr have died.Three students are still in critical condition.
Activists have released a statement asking the resignation of the Minister of Education over this fire and numerous incidents that have befallen students at schools and school camps.
source: mehrnews.com, radiozamaneh.com




Activist Mahdi Hamidi Shafigh has been arrested in Tabriz to serve a prisonsentence of 21 months after being summoned by the local Intelligence Ministry.
He had been arrested in September along with 28 others and charged with conspiring against national security.
source: iranbriefing.net

The securitychief in Yemen asked Iran to stop training and funding Shi’ite Muslim rebels who, along with al Qaeda-backed Islamists and southern separatists, are staging the unrest in Yemen.
The president of Yemen’s National Security Board said that AlQaeda appeared not to number more than 700-800 in the country, including a few hundred Saudis.
source: iranbriefing.net

The British bank HSBC agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle money-laundering charges.
The bank is accused of transferring billions of dollars for Iran, despite international sanctions, and transferring money from Mexican drug cartels through the U.S. financial system to legitimize the funds.
source: rferl.org



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Iran: pressure December 10, 2012

Kaleme reports that the security agents in charge of the house arrest of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, have refused responsibility for providing food for the couple for some time now. Instead they made the family responsible for their food supply, this while the family members have no means to verify the quantity and quality of the food that is in actuality provided to their parents. They hand over the food to the security agents at the gate, who then supposedly deliver the food to their detained parents.
Since November they had no contact to their parents.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com


Reports say that there are 3200 prisoners in Ghezzel Hessar prison in Karaj.
1000 prisoners are on death row. The number of prisoners is increasing each day and prisonrights are violated.
source: freedomessenger



The families of the children wounded from the schoolfire in Shin Abadschool in Piranshahr, have been threatened by intelligence agents not to give information or interviews to newsagencies.
source: freedomessenger


Human Rights Day 2012 Maranaz Parakand testimony on the mounting pressures on Iranian lawyers

witness testimony of Maranaz Parakand.

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Iran: further December 8, 2012

According to IRNA were on December 8 in the prison of Zahedan 3 men hanged.
Their names are Iraj M. convicted of possession of 189 kilos of heroin, Mahmood T. convicted for possessing and carrying 386 kilos of opium and 149 kilos of heroin, and Nematollah A. for the import of 5700 grams of crack.
source: iranhr.net

The Iranian Health minister urged the Central Bank to provide the necessary foreign currency to import urgently needed medical drugs.
She said there are no restrictions on the import of these items, and if the bank provides the adequate amount of foreign currency, they can be obtained.
She also said that $2.5 billion dollars needs to be provided.
source: radiozamaneh.com


In the city of Kermanshah is to commemorate National Students Day a ceremony held at the graves of Kianush Asa and Hossein Tahmasebi, .
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: more December 8, 2012

At least 27 girls suffered burns as a result of a fire caused by an oil heater at an elementary school in the village of Shin Abad in the city of Piranshahr, which is located in  West Azerbaijan Province.
37 students were attending the class. After the heater caught fire, the teacher called one of the service staff to take the heater out of the class instead of taking the students out of the room, and the heater fell from his hands and the fire spread.
A number of the wounded sustained burns over more than 50 percent of their bodies.
The incident raised multiple questions.
source: mehrnews.com




At a carcrash on Zahedan-Zabol highway in Sistan-Baluchestan province 9 people were killed and 2 others were wounded.
All were members of two families.One of the drivers lost control of the vehicle.
source: en.trend.az

2 Iranian warships docked Saturday in Port Sudan. This is the second port call by the Iranian navy in Sudan in five weeks.
Sudanese authorities said it was a "normal" port call.
Tension in Gulf region rises by this portcall.
source: dailystar.com, reuters




Two bahai Zahra Nik-A’in and Taraneh Torabi are in the prison of Semnan serving a sentence of 23 and 20 months in prison, respectively. Both women have infants.
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), reports that all are sick and need medical attention.
source: freedomessenger



Blogger (Yek Varaghe Pareh Digar (another torn sheet of paper), member of One Million Signatures Campaign and womanactivist Maryam Bahreman has been sentenced to 8 months with suspension in prison .
May 2, 2011 she was arrested in her house in Shiraz on accusation of acting against national security. She spent 126 days in the prison of Shiraz and Evin prison before she was released on a bail of $250,000 .
source: freedomessenger


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