Category: Freedom of Expression

Hojat Kalashi and Eight Political Activists Arrested

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Amin Karimi, Farhad Baghbani, Hojat Kalashi, Milad dehghan, Ovzan Akbari, Zahed Khalafi

HRANA News Agency – Following a threatening phone call against the members of Pan Iranist Party’s Youth Organization, armed intelligence agents raided a gathering and arrested nine members of this party.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, intelligence agents in Khuzestan Province contacted two members of Pan Iranist Party of Iran by phone and verbally threatened them.

Two party members, Zahed Khalafi and Ovzan Akbari, were warned by phone not to hold the youth gathering in the city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province.Otherwise, all individuals attending the meeting would be arrested.Zahed Khalafi is in charge of the Pan Iranist Party in Mahshahr and Sarbandar, and Ovzan Akbari is an activist from Ahvaz.

Despite this threat, on Friday, June 24, 2011, the monthly meeting of the Pan Iranist Party with the presence of Hojat Kalashi, the youth organization’s leader, was held.Since then, no one has received any news from any of the attendees including Hojat Kalashi, Ovzan Akbari, Milad Dehghan, Farhad Baghbani, Zahed Khalghi, Amin Karimi and three other individuals.  An informed source has reported to HRANA that at least nine members of this party were arrested during this gathering.

Previously, Hojat Kalashi, Milad Dehghan and Farhad Baghbani had been arrested and charged with the membership in the Pan Iranist Party and propaganda against the regime.Following this arrest, they were released on bail and were waiting for the ruling by the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz.Furthermore, in recent years, Zahed Khalghi has been under enormous pressure at work and has been summoned to and interrogated by Iran’s Intelligence Agency in Khuzestan Province multiple times.

 

Commemorating May 9th in Sanandaj’s Schools

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Farzad Kamangar

HRANA News Agency – Teachers and students from different grade levels throughout the city of Sanandaj [Kurdistan Province] commemorated the first anniversary of Farzad Kamangar’s execution on May 9, 2011.

 

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in response to a call issued by Teachers’ Union of Kurdistan to reject violence and defend the right to live, a number of schools in Sanandaj honored Iran’s beloved teacher, Farzad Kamangar, on May 9, 2011.

 

On this day, a significant number of students in Sanandaj attended schools with candles in order to light them in their classrooms.  Similarly, many teachers devoted their lessons to discussions about rejecting violence and defending the right to live and dedicated time to introduce Farzad Kamangar further to their students.  In addition, in several schools, Farzad Kamangar’s letters were read in classrooms.  According to local HRANA reporters, although no particular problem occurred, a number of schools were dismissed earlier than usual.

 

It must be noted that in the last few days, many civil and political activists have issued a collective call in support of Teachers’ Union of Kurdistan and have named May 9th “Liberal Teachers’ Day.”

 

 

 

 

Political Prisoner of 60’s, Ali Moezi, Arrested

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Ali Moezi

HRANA News Agency – Ali Moezi who is one of the surviving political prisoners from the 60’s has been arrested by the Iranian Intelligence Agency and taken to an unknown location.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), during the early hours of Saturday, June 18, 2011, [Tehran local time], intelligence agents raided Ali Moezi’s house and after seizing his personal belongings, arrested him.

Ali Moezi suffers from kidney problems and must be under a physician’s care.In 2008, Ali Moezi was also arrested because of his son’s membership in one of the opposition groups.

 

Tehran University Student Mojtaba Hashemi Convicted

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Freedom of Expression, Students
Mojtaba Hashemi

HRANA News Agency – Mojtaba Hashemi, a student activist in Tehran University School of Law, has been suspended from school for 3 years and sentenced to one year imprisonment and 74 lashes.

According to a report by the Center to Defend Families of Those Slain and Detained in Iran, Mojtaba Hashemi, a key member of student council during the protests on December 7, 2009, was convicted by Tehran Revolutionary Court.

This report also indicates that Mojtaba Hashemi was preparing a program to commemorate Student’s Day and during a gathering for this occasion, his efforts were hindered by the university’s Basij militia and Herasat, [Iran’s semi-secret police tasked to monitor all educational institutes].At the end, Mojtaba Hashemi was expelled from the university because of pressures from these security forces.

Mojtaba Hashemi is waiting to serve his one year prison term.In addition to imposing suspension and imprisonment, security forces are preventing him from journalistic and civic activities.Mojtaba Hashemi is also under pressure and has been threatened.

 

 

Summoning of an Art Student to the Ministry of Intelligence

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Vahid Akbari Sharghi

HRANA – Vahid Akbari Sharghi, Student of Sound Engineering & Cinema in India was summoned by intelligence ministry agents after returning to Iran.

According to The HRANA reporters, News organizations for Human Rights Activists in Iran, on April 15 intelligence Service agents went to house of this artist’s father in order to arrest him and after searching his home and seizing computer and some sound mix equipment summoned him to the Office of the Ministry of Intelligence.

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Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Head of Security Arrested

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Haj Ahmad Yazdanfar, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Yazdanfar

HRANA – Mir Hossein Mousavi’s head of security, known as Haj Ahmad Yazdanfar, has been arrested.

According to Kalameh, Yazdanfar who is Mousavi’s most senior bodyguard and head of security was arrested moments ago by police forces.

We will post a more complete report on this breaking news as soon as possible.

Farid Salvati Was Arrested

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Farid Salvati

HRANA News Agency – Security forces raided Farid Salvati’s house in Esfahan on Sunday evening, June 12, 2011, and arrested him.Farid Salvati is a journalist and political and social activist.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Farid Salvati’s house was searched yesterday evening, and he was detained subsequently.

Farid Salvati is the grandson of Allameh Jafari and the son of Fazollah Salvati who was one of the prominent political activists in Esfahan during the early years of Islamic Revolution.

 

Milad Asadi, Student Activist, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

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Milad Asadi

HRANA News Agency – Milad Asadi, student activist and a member of the Office for Strengthening Unity, has been locked up in solitary confinement after returning to prison from Nowruz furlough.

 

 According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Milad Asadi was summoned to prison after completing his furlough and has been transferred to a solitary confinement in cell block 209.The reason for this transfer is unknown.

 

 

Milad Asadi was arrested in November 2009 and subsequently tried and convicted on May 9, 2010. In Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, Branch 28, Judge Moqayaseh sentenced him to seven and a half years in prison.The Appeals Court has upheld this ruling.

 

It is also worth mentioning that this political prisoner has been denied his right to request furlough for months.

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Laleh Hassanpour Summoned to Serve her Five Year Conviction

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Laleh Hassanpour

HRANA News Agency – Laleh Hassanpour, a human rights activist and blogger, was convicted by the thirty-sixth branch of Tehran’s Appeals Court and sentenced to five years in prison.  She has been subsequently ordered to report to prison to begin serving her sentence.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Laleh Hassanpour was previously sentenced by Judge Peerabasi to one year imprisonment and four years of suspended prison term.  This ruling has been upheld by the Appeals Court.

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Iran’s court of appeals upheld a six-year prison term imposed on Farshid Fat’hi for practicing Christianity/ US rights group condemned

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Farshid Fathi, Youcef Nadarkhani

HRANA News Agency – Christian activist and House Church organizer Fat’hi was sentenced to a six-year prison term, based on charges of “acting against national security through membership of the Christian organization Ilam, collection of funds and propaganda against the Islamic Regime by helping spread Christianity in the country.”

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