According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Kurdpa, the intelligence agents arrested Heyman Abdi in Shahin Dej, the West Azerbaijan Province.
According to an informed source, the security forces did not show an arrest warrant and mentioned the collaboration with one of the anti-regime political parties as the reason for Abdi’s arrest.
According to an informed source, the prison deputy chief cancelled Monfared’s family visit because he considered her daughters’ cover improper. He ordered the guards to return Monfared to the ward. When she resisted, a prison guard squeezed her throat and beat her violently. Ultimately, they let Monfared visit her children.
Akbari Monfared is currently serving her 15-year sentence in Semnan Prison. She has been imprisoned since 2009 without a furlough.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on August 24, 2022, Mohammad Chegini was arrested in Kerman.
According to an informed source, the agents did not show an arrest warrant.
The reason for this arrest and Chegini’s whereabouts are unknown so far.
The workers of Agro-Industry Complex Karoon held a protest at their workplace. The workers said that unlike promises made during the last negotiation, their demands have not yet been addressed.
The firefighters in Karaj City gathered in front of the Municipality to protest against their poor living conditions, unpaid wages and benefits including extra pay for working night shifts.
For the second consecutive day, the workers of the vegetable oil company Jahan held a protest in front of the Ministry of Labour in Zanjan. The Factory managers have laid off 60 out of 85 workers due to financial issues.
In Shiraz, a group of working and retired workers of the vegetable oil company Narges protested against low wages and their poor living conditions. The protestors said that the factory directors sell the factory amenities, lands and machinery for their own profit.
A number of citizens who have been victims of the fraudulent activities of two car dealership companies Pars and Karma demonstrated before the company to ask for the apprehension of two fugitives company managers.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on August 24, 2022, quoting Rokna News, the authorities of Rajai-Shahr Prison executed five inmates.
All these individuals were executed because they were unable to convince the victims’ families to spare their lives. So far, two of them have been identified as Mohammad-Reza Sharamfar and Hadi Jozei.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Omid Shah Mohammadi, Parviz Ahsani, Kaweh Mohammadzadeh, and Hiwa Qoreishi are jailed at a detention facility.
These union activists have been denied access to a lawyer and family visits. According to an informed source, despite frequent requests from their families, judicial authorities refused to grant them bail.
On June 15, 2022, security forces arrested these activists in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province.
HRANA has reported the mass arrest of teachers and teacher union activists in different cities in June 2022.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Iran Human Rights Organization, on August 23, 2022, an inmate identified as Ahmad Karami, age 37, was executed in Neyshabur Prison.
An informed source said that Karami had been convicted of murder.
Similarly, on August 21, two men identified as Fariborz Jamei, convicted of drug-related crimes, Hossein Mohseni, convicted of murder, and one unidentified woman were executed in Adel-Abad Prison in Shiraz.
Neither of the executions has been reported by official sources and media outlets inside Iran so far.
About 60 laid-off workers of the vegetable oil company Jahan gathered before this company and then the Governor-General’s office in Zanjan City. The Factory managers have laid off 60 out of 85 workers due to financial issues.
A number of the medical interns of Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences protested against the University officials’ mismanagement.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Kolbar News, the revolutionary Court sentenced Fardin Rahimi, Aliollah Veisi, Mehdi Seyfi, Sirvan Abdollahi, and Marzieh Morad-Veisi each to four years in prison and five months floating imprisonment on the charges of “propaganda against the regime, collaboration with one of the anti-regime parties, and forming illegal groups”.
These individuals were arrested in May 2021 and later released on bail after interrogation.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, quoting Iran Human Rights Organization, on August 22, 2022, in Qazvin, the prison authorities executed an inmate identified as Abolfazl Sharifi, age 29, who was convicted of drug-related crimes.
Iran Human Rights Organization also reported the execution of an inmate identified as Saeed Kamali, age 24, in Dastgerd Prison, Isfahan Province. Kamali was sentenced to death for murder. He was 19 at the time of committing the crime.
These executions have not been reported by official sources and media outlets inside Iran so far.
