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Student Activist Hadi Hamidi Shafiq Arrested; His Wedding Not Permitted

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Freedom of Expression, Students
Hadi Hamidi Shafiq

HRANA News Agency – In an unprecedented move, Tabriz Intelligence Agency prevented Hadi Hamidi Shafiq to have a wedding.

According to a report by South Azerbaijan Student Movement (AZOH), Hadi Hamidi Shafiq’s wedding was to take place in Tabriz with political and social activists from all over Azerbaijan attending the event.Yesterday morning, on July 20, 2011, Tabriz Intelligence Agency summoned the wedding banquet hall director and interrogated him about the scheduled event.

Additionally, this morning, Tabriz Intelligence Agency contacted the bride and the groom’s families by phone, summoning them for questioning and threatening to arrest all the guests.The intelligence agents also contacted Hadi Hamidi Shafiq, forbidding him from going ahead with his wedding plans.When faced with his opposition, the agents told him that the wedding ceremony would be held by them and all the guests without any exception would be detained.

The intelligence agents from Tehran and Urmia offices have also phoned some of the activists invited to the wedding in order to warn them not to attend the ceremony or be arrested.

According to the last reliable news, Hadi Hamidi Shafiq has been arrested by Tabriz Intelligence Agency, and his whereabouts is still unknown.

Recently, Hadi Hamidi Shafiq was sentenced to six months in prison and 60 lashes on charges of propaganda against the regime.In May 2006, Hadi Hamidi Shafiq was arrested for attending demonstrations and spent 17 months behind bars.

 

Rappelling Operations to Confiscate Satellite Dishes

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Freedom of Expression
Mohammad Reza Radan

HRANA News Agency – Sardar Mohammad Reza Radan, Deputy Police Commander, has said that if a homeowner isn’t present at the time when agents attempt to confiscate a satellite dish, and it is not possible to enter a house through the door, the police will utilize rappelling and airborne operations to seize the dish.

According to a report by Aftab News Agency, in a television program, the Deputy Police Commander emphasized that the police force couldn’t ignore a crime as it was being committed and added, “It is possible that the police forces attempt to confiscate a satellite dish while the homeowner isn’t there or might be on a trip.Our agents will not enter the house since the homeowner isn’t present but will use airborne and rappelling operations to gain access to the roof to seize all the satellite dishes.”

It is noteworthy that Mohammad Reza Radan’s speech comes at a time that in recent years, even when the police forces are present when a crime is being committed, they fail to prevent it from occurring.Specifically speaking, the police, although present, didn’t prevent an honor killing in Kaj Square from happening.

 

Student Activist Sina Mehdinia Sentenced to Six Months in Prison

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Freedom of Expression, Students
Sina Mehdinia

HRANA News Agency – Sina Mehdinia, a student at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, has been sentenced by Babol’s Revolutionary Court to six months in prison.

According to a report by Daneshjoo News, local sources have stated that last March, police forces summoned Sina Mehdinia to serve his prison term.However, since his sentence was preliminary and had not been formally communicated to him, his attorney’s appeal was granted.Currently, Sina Mehdinia’s case is pending a decision by the appeals court.

Sina Mehdinia was arrested during Ashura protests organized by Babol’s Green Movement in 2009.After spending eleven days in solitary confinement, he was released on bail approximately equivalent to $30,000.

 

Brick Factory Workers’ Strike Continues in Bukan

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Labor and Guilds
Azerbaijan

HRANA News Agency – The news from Saroghamish regions in Bukan [West Azerbaijan Province] indicates that the workers of several brick factories continue their strike which began on May 21, 2011.

 

According to a report by Mukrian News Agency, brick factory workers have demanded a wage increase for each one thousand bricks they handle.  Workers pulling brick wheelbarrows are asking for an increase of $3.30 per one thousand bricks while workers who place the bricks in furnaces are asking for an increase of $0.94.

 

At the time when this report was being prepared, brick factory employers were not willing to accept the demand made by workers.  Meanwhile, brick factory workers have also announced that until their requests are met, they will continue their strike.

 

Assault and Murder in Tabriz under the Pretext of Combating Mal-veiling

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Other

HRANA- Using their identification cards, three member of the paramilitary Basij, kidnapped and sexually assaulted a young woman in the city of Tabriz before shooting and killing her. The three then proceeded to dump her body outside of the city. This incident has sparked outrage amongst the people of the region.

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Saman Nooranian’s 3 Year Prison Sentence Confirmed

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Prisoners
Salavati, Saman Nooranian, Samanian

HRANA – Saman Nooranian’s 3 year prison sentence was confirmed by the appellate court.
According to Daneshjoo News, the lower court’s imprisonment sentence for Saman Nooranian has been confirmed by judge Salavati presiding over Branch 15 of the appellate court. Mr. Samanian is a graduate of the prestigious College of Engineering and Medicine at Amir Kabir University; one of the most reputable institutions of higher education in Iran.
Mr. Nooranian who is currently held in Ward 350 of Evin prison was arrested in the aftermath of the popular protests on December 27, 2009 (the day of Ashura).
 
 
 

Prisoner Hanged in Kashan, Iran

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Executions
Iran, Kashan

HRANA News Agency – A prisoner convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in Kashan, Iran.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), quoted from IRIB News, a prisoner convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in Kashan Central Prison om Monday, December 17, 2012.

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No information about Hossein Fallah after a week of his arrest

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Prisoners
Hossein Fallah

HRANA News Agency – After one week passed from the arrest of Hossein Fallah, there is no information about his situation.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Hossein Fallah, one of the activists in “House of NGOs” in Ghazvin city, after being called by intelligence office in this city, was arrested and has had no communication with his family.
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Three Iranian Sunni M.D. students were fired with no certification

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Ethnic Minorities
Kakeh Ahmad Moftizadeh, Leyla Borna, Sarveh Heidari, Somayeh Hoshyari


HRANA News Agency – Three Iranian Kurdish M.D. students with Sunni faith were fired from college with no certification.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Three Iranian Kurdish M.D. students with Sunni faith (followers of Kakeh Ahmad Moftizadeh)  were fired from college after they presented their final thesis. And, the college authorities in Kurdistan and Hamedan of Iran did not deliver their M.D. certificates. They were told their certificates have been seized by Intelligence Ministry.
 
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IRGC Invites Kurds to Take up Arms Against PJAK

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Ethnic Minorities
Iran

HRANA News Agency – The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) in Salmas County has published and distributed a pamphlet asking tribal forces and those living in border regions to fight against Kurdish Workers’ Party (PJAK).

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), IRGC has asked Kurdish citizens to begin an armed conflict against Kurdish Workers’ Party.IRGC agents have begun an orchestrated propaganda against PJAK by pressuring and threatened underprivileged citizens in the border regions to join the Basiji Milita in order to help the Islamic government to defeat PJAK.
In the pamphlet released by the Revolutionary Guard, IRGC warns the members and supporters of PJAK in Iran and says, “We ask courageous Kurds and honorable tribes in Salmas County not to tolerate injustice and oppression perpetrated by PJAK and to defend your honor, lives, properties, families and country by waging war against this group.Don’t remain silent until the last of these mercenaries are wiped off the face of this earth.”
According to the international rules of war and military engagement, civilians and their safety and security must not be endangered or threatened deliberately by the armed conflict between two adversaries.IRGC’s statement calling for armed confrontation between civilians and PJAK has militarized the region and has intentionally carried the current conflict into civilians’ lives.