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May 1: clashes in Tehran
Iran Focus / CNRI, May 1
On the eve of May 1, on the Ferdowsi Square in Tehran, clashes erupted between the population and a cloud of repressive forces.
recent invaded the floor to prevent movement of solidarity between the people and workers. The clashes began at 18:30 when the crowd began to boo the officials.
The crowd, about 700 people, who stood at no great distance began to shout "Death to Khamenei" and clashes erupted with the regime's agents.
At least 48 people were arrested after protest rallies in front of the Labour Ministry in Tehran, and 36 people were injured in the square Toupkhaneh.
Three protesters were sentenced to death
Daily Khorasan / Iran Press News Channel, May 3
Three women were sentenced to death for participating in demonstrations. Massoumeh Yavari, arrested during protests in the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Motahareh Bahrami and Reyhaneh Haaj-Ebrahim, arrested the protests of Ashura. Mother of two children aged 4 and 11 years, Massoumeh is accused of sending text messages and holding photos of the leaders of WIPO in its computer.
Youth Olympics / Soccer - Iran is working on a suitable place for his players
ISNA / AFP, May 4
Iran is working in consultation with FIFA, held on a special for the players of his selection of women's soccer compete at the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore in August, said Tuesday an Iranian official.
He said the Federation International Football Associations (FIFA) had recently lifted a ban for Iranian football, participating in the YOG. The ban, prompted by the wearing of headscarves by joyous, was taken in October 2009, according to Iranian media.
The president of the IFF, the decision to lift the ban was made after his meeting last month in Geneva, with FIFA president Joseph Blatter ...
FIFA has "announced shortly after that veiled women could participate in competitions," he said, without specifying the date of lifting of the ban.
FIFA confirmed Tuesday in a statement, reinstatement of Iranian women's team under 15 YOG but has nonetheless made some nuances.
"This decision (to reinstate the team) was taken after the written confirmation of the IFF and the Iranian National Olympic Committee to accept a solution whereby the players will not Islamic hijab during matches competition, "FIFA said.
"Instead, players may wear a head covering on their hair but that should not go below the ears or cover their necks," she says. This solution respects the rules and regulations of FIFA and the Laws of the Game "...
Iran, in the heart of the NPT Review Conference
The Iranian president's speech at the UN boycotted
Le Monde / AFP, May 3 and 4
Meeting in New York, States parties want to strengthen the effectiveness of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was preparing to take the spotlight, Monday, May 3, opening in New York of the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Single head of state to make the trip, it was a long speech in his country camping victim of a nuclear order world that Tehran considers discriminatory.
Many Western delegations, including the United States, France and Great Britain, boycotted the speech by Iranian President, Monday, May 3, leaving the room when he arrived at the podium at the opening of follow-up conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the UN.
Run at Dezful
Site Justice Department of Khuzestan, May 5
Accused of murdering a man, Rahman A. was executed Tuesday by hanging at dawn in the detention center of the city of Dezful (South).
Five Kurdish rebels including two women killed in an ambush
agency Fars / AFP, May 5 Five Kurdish rebels including two women were killed in a clash with members of the Guard revolution, the military elite of the regime, in the province of Kermanshah (west).
The clash occurred Tuesday when elements of the Revolutionary Guards have tended "ambushed a group PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, ie) in the region Dalahu, killing five of them including two women, "said the commander of this elite force Akbar Ali Nouri.
Kurds represent about 7% of the population in Iran ...
Two thousand students protesting against the hijab
Iran Focus, May 7
Seeking to create a climate of fear to block the development of movement opposition, where women play a major role, the Iranian regime is using increasingly repressive measures, particularly in clothing. On May 5
over 2,000 students of Tehran University gathered to protest against the requirement to wear the black maghna'eh (a strict hijab).
This movement was triggered after security guards at the university, have prevented students from wearing shawl or scarf to go to university. The students were then torn and trampled regulatory notices pasted on walls and doors.
At the Faculty of Arts, they began to manifest in chanting slogans against the regime. The boys came to support them in the protest which lasted four hours.
On the other hand, the regime announced that after prayers Friday, May 7, it will launch a manifestation of militia and Revolutionary Guard against "mal-veiling" outside the main entrance of Tehran University to the square Enghelab.
Six traffickers executed in Karaj
agency Fars, May 8
Six drug traffickers were executed at dawn Saturday in the prison near Tehran Ghezel Hessar. The defendants were identified as Arsalan Assadi, Mohammad-Ali Fakhri Abbas Gueravand, Rahman Biabani, Parviz Taghizadeh and Said Mikaeli.
80 young people arrested during a "concert illegal "in Tehran
Kayhan Daily / AFP, May 8
Police Friday arrested 80 young people" drunk "in a villa in Tehran where they attended a" concert illegal.
"On the basis of an information and after obtaining a warrant from the judicial authority (the police) intervened in this place where a concert was held unlawful, "the Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi.
" Eighty boys and girls who were drunk and improperly dressed were arrested, "he said adding that police also confiscated alcohol also imported and locally manufactured, whose consumption is forbidden in Iran.
"Five other people were selling tickets for this concert between 30 and 35 dollars apiece, were also arrested," he added ...
The works of the poet Farrokhzad banned a book fair
ILNA / AFP, May 8
The Iranian authorities have removed the works of Forough Farrokhzad, a figure of Iranian poetry twentieth century, the Book Fair Téhéranqui runs from May 5 to 15
Exposure of poetic works of Forough Farrokhzad was prohibited the book fair and publishers have been unable to display posters on it.
Forough Farrokhzad, who died in 1967 at age 32, is one of the major poets of Iran ...
Iranian authorities monitor all publications and artistic productions prior to their release. Many publishers complain development of censorship since the election of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of the Republic in 2005.
books of another Iranian writer renowned HooshangGolshiri (d. 2000) had also been banned from the Tehran Book Fair.
In recent years, the country's cultural authorities have banned many books, some published for a long time because it viewed the "promotion of decadence" or they "insult" to religion.
Heavy prison sentences for a student leader and a journalist
ISNA / AFP, 9 May
Iran's judiciary has sentenced on appeal a student leader, Abdollah Momeni, a journalist and reformer, Hengameh Shahidi, given heavy prison sentences. Near
Mehdi Karoubi, journalist HengamehShahidi was sentenced to six years in prison for propaganda against the regime, participation in illegal gatherings and actions against national security.
five people hanged in Tehran IRNA
/ AFP, 9 May
Five people, including a woman, accused of committing bombings and having links with " anti-revolutionary groups "were hanged on Sunday in Evin Prison, according to a statement from Tehran prosecutor's office ...
According to Iranian websites collecting information on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mehdi Eslamian, 30, arrested in May 2008 on charges of links with the monarchist movement of the Assembly of the Kingdom (Tondar), was the brother of MohsenEslamian, one of three men executed April 10, 2009 for bombing a year earlier against a mosque in Shiraz (south).
The four other convicts executed Sunday were apparently militant Kurdish separatist movement linked to armed PJAK, PKK near the Turkish and responsible for numerous attacks in Iranian Kurdistan.
ShirineAlamhouli, aged 28, was arrested in Tehran in 2008 and decided in December 2009 for alleged links with the PJAK, according to one of these websites.
The Iranian embassy in Paris to take part by opponents
AFP, May 9
Opponents of the Iranian regime in Paris, protesting against five executions announced in the morning by the prosecutor of Tehran, have loudly protested outside the Iranian Embassy, committing some damage, the AFP found there.
The event, drawing on a hundred people, lasted about twenty minutes, then the police intervened and cordoned off the embassy ...
A lawyer jailed for criticizing the execution of minors in Iran
Amnesty International, May 10
AI urges the Iranian authorities to release a lawyer specializing in human rights, arrested after denounced the execution of one of its customers during interviews with international media.
Olyaeifard Mohammad was detained on 1 May 2010 for "propaganda against the regime" and began serving his sentence of one year in prison. Yet, in violation of Iranian law, her lawyers were not informed of his sentence.
Before being arrested, Mohammad Olyaeifard said his conviction was based on an interview with VOA Persian shortly after his client, the juvenile offender BehnoudShojaee, was hanged for a murder committed when that He was 17.
Amnesty International condemns execution of five political prisoners
AI, 11 May
http://www.amnestyinternational.be/doc/article16154.html
Amnesty International condemned on Tuesday the execution in Iran of four political activists Kurdish and Iranian national fifth, all convicted of mohareb (enmity against God). Mehdi
Eslamian and the four Kurds - Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Holi - were hanged Sunday, May 9 in Evin prison in Tehran.
Shirin Alam-Holi, the only woman among five tortured, was accused of belonging to another Kurdish group, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), an armed Iranian banned in Iran ...
In a letter written in prison, Shirin said she had nightmares because of abuse inflicted by his torturers.
She was beaten repeatedly, including on the soles of the feet, she was kicked in the stomach which caused internal bleeding and was force-fed using nasal tubes - that it was lifted in protest, injuring the nose. She said she recorded a confession on video after receiving an injection, once hospitalized.
Prisoners are often kept in isolation for long periods in detention beyond the control of the judiciary, what makes them run a serious risk of being tortured or otherwise mistreated ...
One victim identified Ashura
Voice of America, May 13
Shabnam Sohrabi, 34, mother of a 6 year old daughter, is one of the victims of the uprising of Ashura. She was crushed by a vehicle of security forces. Shabnam was buried in the cemetery of Behesht Zahra south of Tehran 20 days after his death under the control of the authorities. Shabnam's mother did not dared to reveal the murder of his daughter.
Confirmation of death penalty opponents six
AFP, May 15
The court upheld the death penalty against six opponents arrested during the post-election unrest in 2009 and accused of belonging to the organization of the People's Mujahedeen, the main armed opposition group to the Iranian regime, the prosecutor said Saturday in Tehran.
Three of them were arrested during riots in December, according to Mr. Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi which identified them as "Daneshpour Ahmad Moghadam, Mohsen Moghadam Daneshpour and Alireza Ghanbari.
Unemployment up
BBC Website, 15 May
The Iranian Ministry of Employment has announced an increase of 11.9% unemployment compared to last year. Iran has three million unemployed. More de800 000 people arrive every year on the job market but most can not get a job.
Two feminist sentenced to 74 lashes and 6 years in prison
ILNA / AFP, May 16
Two feminist activists, and ShadiSadr Mahboubeh Abbas Gholizadeh, located at abroad, were sentenced to prison terms.
's lawyer Shadi Sadr has been sentenced to six years in prison and 74 lashes for action against national security and disturbing public order ...
Gholizadeh Mahboubeh Abbas was sentenced in turn two and a half years prison and 30 lashes for action against national security and disturbing public order.
Agreement between Iran, Brazil and Turkey on the nuclear
The world, May 17
The international community remains cautious after the conclusion of an agreement, Monday, May 17, between Iran, Turkey and Brazil for an exchange of uranium on the Turkish territory. Just like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called in the evening to Iran to confirm in writing the agreement.
Reiss just released, the questions multiply
Le Monde / AFP, May 17
The controversy did not arise soon after arrival on French soil of the young scholar about the conditions of his release by the Iranian regime or its possible membership in the DGSE. A return which has also fueled suspicions exchange with two Iranian engineers were detained in France. The French
Reiss arrived Sunday at the airport of Villacoublay (Yvelines). The young woman of 24, held in Iran since July 2009 for having participated in anti-government protests in June 2009, was able to leave Iran after a ruling ordering it to a fine of 285,000 dollars (230,000 euros). ..
The question is: the expulsion of the assassin of Shapur Bakhtiar is it related to the release of Reiss?
Agreement between Iran, Brazil and Turkey on the nuclear
Le Monde, May 17
The international community remains cautious after the conclusion of an agreement Monday, May 17, between Iran, Turkey and Brazil for an exchange of uranium on the Turkish territory. Just like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called in the evening to Iran to confirm in writing the agreement.
text, the result of mediation by Brazil and Turkey, was signed by foreign ministers of three countries in the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It provides for the shipment to Turkey by Iran of its 1 200 kg of low enriched uranium to 3.5% to be exchanged within a maximum period of one year against 120 kg of fuel enriched to 20%, required to nuclear research reactor in Tehran, said spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ramin Mehmanparast.
Washington announced an agreement with UN on new sanctions
Le Monde, May 18
Washington has taken the hand Tuesday, May 18 in the controversy over Iran's nuclear program by announcing a agreement between the major powers for new sanctions against Tehran. "I am pleased to say today that we have registered an agreement on a strong project with the cooperation of Russia and China," said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, before the U.S. Senate ...
Two executions and convictions whip
Site Asr-e-Iran/Iran Focus, May 18
Two prisoners, Morteza and Azizollah, aged 35, were hanged in the enclosure the central prison in Isfahan.
addition a man was flogged in public in the main square City Ramhormoz in south-western Iran. These Gholam Reza D.
He received 74 lashes. The torture took place last April 26 but was announced today at the official site of the prosecutor of the province.
Paris urges Iran to renounce executions of opponents
AFP, May 18
France calls on Iran not to proceed with the executions of six opponents arrested during a post- election of 2009, while the Iranian judiciary has confirmed their sentence death, said Tuesday the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"France is deeply concerned by these sentences of capital punishment part of the policy of brutal repression carried out by the current Iranian regime to its citizens against those who aspire to democracy and respect for their freedoms," added in a press spokesman at the Quai d'Orsay, Bernard Valero.
"France, like its European Union partners, opposes the death penalty in all circumstances," he said.
Justice confirmed Saturday the death penalty against these opponents, accused of belonging to the organization of the People's Mujahedeen, the main armed opposition group to the Iranian regime.
Three of them were arrested during riots in December, according to the prosecutor of Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi which identified them as "Daneshpour Ahmad Moghadam, Mohsen Moghadam Daneshpour and Alireza Ghanbari.
Jafari Dolatabadi also said that "the death sentences against Muhammad Ali Saremi, Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad-Ali Haj-Aghai, (...) have been confirmed," saying they were arrested in September.
two men hanged in Isfahan
Kayhan Daily / AFP, May 19
Two men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were hanged in the city of Isfahan (central).
The two men, identified only by their first names, and Morteza Azizollah, were hanged in the city jail.
Major powers contrent Turkish-Brazilian initiative on the Iranian nuclear
Le Monde, May 20
At the UN, an agreement was reached between the Western powers, Russia and China on a draft tougher sanctions against Tehran. The major powers have inflicted a blow to Brazil and Turkey, who tried to mediate with Iran. They filed to the Security Council of the United Nations Tuesday, May 18, a draft resolution condemning Tehran. The new sanctions, backed by Russia and China, were presented after an agreement with the Iranian regime by Brasilia and Ankara, which claimed a diplomatic breakthrough for the postponements of punitive measures.
The mothers of three Americans held in Iran plead for their release in Tehran
Le Monde, May 20
The mothers of three hikers American detained for ten months in Iran on charges of espionage, pleaded Thursday, May 20 the authorities to free them. They had traveled to Tehran to meet for the first time since their arrest in July 2009.
public hanging of a man in Ahvaz
agency Fars / AFP, May 20
A man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in public on Tuesday in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran .
The man had been arrested with 1.375 kg of heroin in his possession, said Fars.
Hanging a man for murder
Agency Fars / AFP, May 21
A man convicted of killing a woman and then burned his body was hanged in Iran Thursday. The man, named Mohammad, was convicted of murdering Shokat, a woman to whom he owed the sum of $ 4,700.
Information, from the judiciary of the province of Esfahan (central), does not specify the place of execution.
Hanging brother's head movement Jondallah
AFP, May 24
Iran has hanged Monday in Zahedan (southeast) Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of the leader of the movement Sunni rebel Jondallah Abdolmalek Rigi who was captured in February during a spectacular hijacking operation, official media reported.
"Abdolhamid Righi was hanged in prison Monday morning," said the official news agency IRNA as saying that "families of victims of terrorist attacks" were present at the execution ...
The Iranian filmmaker JafarPanahi was released on bail
Le Monde / AFP, May 25
JafarPanahi Iranian filmmaker who was arrested on March 1, was released on bail Tuesday, said his wife TaherehSaeedi, confirming a statement from the prosecutor's office in Tehran. According to the prosecutor's office in Tehran, Mr. Panahi has had to pay bail of 2 billion rials (164,000 euros).
Paris welcomes the release of Panahi and denounced his detention
The French Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Culture, Bernard Kouchner and Frederic Mitterrand, welcomed Tuesday's release of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi stressing that he would never have been imprisoned.
"We are pleased that Jafar Panahi has regained his freedom today, a freedom he never should have been private, "say the two ministers in a joint statement." We regret that once again he was not able to attend the 63rd Festival Cannes as a jury member, where he was eagerly awaited.
"We hope he can resume as soon as his artistic activities that bring honor to
Iranian cinema," concluded the two officials who had called together for the release of filmmaker May 12 last.
Near the opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the filmmaker, 49, was released Tuesday bail almost three months after his arrest, which raised a wave of international outrage.
The Iranian Ministry of Culture had said in mid-April that the arrest was related to the fact that the director "was preparing a film against the regime on the post-election events" - in reference to the events that followed the disputed re-election Ahmadinejad in June 2009 - that Mr. Panahi has denied.
The "morality squads" are rampant in Iran
Iran Focus, May 26
Forces of State Security (ESF) launched an offensive against women 'mal-veiling' in Tehran and provinces. In Isfahan, the operation began immediately after the warning issued by the imam of Friday prayers in his sermon at women and girls in their sails "floating".
These days, patrols of the "vice squad" had been seen trying to question or arrest many women kept their "un-Islamic."
authorities plan to Mashad (northeast) announced fines of up to $ 1,000 for " mal-veiling ".
Zoqi Mahmoud, the prosecutor of Mashhad, said that in recent weeks many women had been fined up to $ 1,000 "for the crime of being mal-veiling". Zoqi added that "being badly-veiled is considered a crime by law". The prosecutor
Mashhad added: "These fines will also affect men whose behavior is contrary to public morality. "
Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Guardians of the plan, said in Tehran on Friday that stronger action was necessary against the student. Speaking to university officials, Jannati added: "Universities and their students are at your disposal. Put in place conditions on the registration of students. They try to get good grades, so they have no choice but to bow to the law. "
" True Copy "will not be released in theaters in Iran
AFP, May 27
Iran will not release in theaters last film of Abbas Kiarostami presented at Cannes "copy".
"This film is not bad" said Vice-Minister of Culture JavadShamaqdari.
"But because of the clothing Juliette Binoche he will not be shown in cinemas." "But it can be shown in some universities and private clubs," he added ...
Shamaqdaria said he had not seen "True Copy" to Cannes, "a room in Paris." "There were 35 spectators in a hall with 300 seats, mostly the elderly," he said.
"The film shows the loneliness of a certain age because of the situation of families linked to the freedoms that exist in Europe," he analyzed.
"It would not have a large audience here, only the Iranians who have a Western lifestyle," he added, considering that Mr. Kiarostami "does not seek to distribute his film in Iran."
In addition, he noted, "this film has an American distributor, and in general we do not show films that have foreign distributors' ...
WIPO calls for international action to commute the execution of six of his supporters
Europa Press, May 27
The People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) called for immediate action the international community to prevent the execution six opposition supporters - including the recognized political prisoner by Amnesty International Mohamad Ali Saremi - whose sentences have been announced in the last 15 days by the Attorney General of Iran.
The mother of Majid Tavakoli joined the hunger strike
Site Jaras / Iran Focus, May 28
While the health of young Majid Tavakoli, strike the dry hunger worsens, his mother call for international solidarity to save his son.
Ms. Tavakoli said: "My son is an ordinary student and apparently, no politician wants speak in favor of the prosecutor and the court does not hear the voice of a mother who has waited months to address the media. I have no other choice but to ask the people to come to our aid. "Madam
Takavoli, who has not eaten since she heard of the hunger strike of Majid, said she will continue her hunger strike ...
Iran continues its persecution against the Baha'is
Le Monde, 28 maiPar FoadSaberan
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues its relentless persecution against the Baha'i community, one group which even children are being abused planned by the Ministry of Education ... For
destruction of Baha'i cemeteries, the burning of their homes, destruction of holy places and their sanctuaries, deprivation of employment, denial of access to higher education, plus more often followed by a string of arrests or without bail (exorbitant amounts of money, like all prisoners of conscience in Iran). Sign that it is beliefs that are at issue, nothing else: whatever the charges, often serious, they will disappear if the Baha'i agrees to sign a confession of conversion to Shiism.
Activists court
Iran Focus, May 29
Ahari Chiva-Nazar, 26, journalist, activist, human rights, blogger and reporter Committee member of reporters Human Rights appeared on May 23 before a court that the judge for a charge punishable by death.
KouhyarGoudarzi, another member of this committee is still in jail without trial, says "Italian Peace Reporter."
Amnesty International has described the two activists' prisoners of conscience, detained for the year their right to peaceful expression and free association. " They have been detained since December 2009.
The two activists were accused of being linked to the group's main Iranian opposition, the Mojahedin.
Kouhyar told her family last February that the Iranian intelligence services were pressuring him to confess to having had links with WIPO. He was placed in isolation after having protested against the mistreatment of prisoners.
An Iranian aid pipeline to Afghanistan
JDD, May 30
The Afghan Taliban are Iran training and weapons to fight NATO forces, said Sunday the leader of the international forces in Afghanistan, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal ...
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