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Monthly Bulletin on Iran

December 2010

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A woman hanged for a crime of passion
IRNA / Paris Match, 1 December


After more than nine years in prison, Shahla Jahed was executed this morning by hanging at Evin prison in Tehran.
The international activists for human rights was not enough. Sentenced to death in 2004 for the murder of Laleh Saharkhizan, wife "main" football player Naser Mohammadkhani which she was the wife temporary, Shahla Jahed, a nurse of 40 years, was hanged in the early hours this morning, when she proclaimed his innocence after the first confession "forced"?
Jahed was hanged at five o'clock in the morning before the call to prayer in the presence of the victim's family.



The Council of Europe on Wednesday condemned the hanging of Shahla Jahed. Its secretary general, Thorbjorn Jagland said he was "appalled" in a statement that it "notes once again that the Iranian regime has little respect for human rights" ...

Amnesty International had called from London on Iran to suspend execution of Khadijeh Jahed, known as Shahla's name, saying there were "reasonable grounds to believe has been wrongly convicted."


amputation of the hand in Kermanshah
ISNA / Site Asre Iran, December 1
The sentence of amputation of a hand has been enforced against a man in jail central city of Kermanshah (west). The man was charged with theft.
The enforcement of the award took place in front of other inmates.



Nuclear Iran: nothing to expect from negotiations in Geneva (Rajavi)
AFP, December 1


Negotiations between the major powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear program scheduled to begin Monday Geneva will give "no results", said in Brussels on Wednesday the leader of the main Iranian opposition movement in exile, Maryam Rajavi ...



Nuclear scientist assassinated Iran accuses the West
LEMATIN.ch, December 2
Two senior Iranian officials on Wednesday accused the West of plotting the bombings Monday against Iranian scientists to lobby on Tehran before the forthcoming resumption of nuclear negotiations between Iran and major powers ...



Four men hanged in Isfahan
ISNA / AFP, December 5
Four men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were executed in Isfahan (central). Identified Abdollah being N, Zarif D., S. Bakhtiar and Masood Gh. They were hanged on Saturday in the central jail in this city.


Three officials arrested a daily
AFP, December 7 Three officials
daily Shargh (East), were arrested. Ahmad Gholami, editor, Farzaneh Roustit, head of the diplomatic service, and Kayvan Mehregan, head of policy, were arrested by security forces Tuesday in the offices of the newspaper ...



Closing a satellite office of a chain, five arrests
AFP, December 7
Iran has closed an office in Tehran to a satellite channel in Persian, Farsi1 Property Group and U.S. News Corp Moby Group, and arrested at least five members of his staff, " cons-revolutionary activities, "the prosecutor said Tuesday in Tehran.


The last census of students in Iran Mehr
Agency, December 9
According to a recent survey, 3.79 million people are enrolled in academic institutions in Iran.
The male to female ratio is almost equal with 49. 5% girls and 50. 5% of boys enrolled in universities ...



Sakineh resubmitted on television
AFP, December 10


The Iranian English channel Press-TV aired a show on Friday night the Case Mohamadi-Ashtiani, insisting the charges on this mother of 43-year sentenced to death by stoning in a case combining the murder of her husband of adultery.

The show, which includes interviews Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, son Sajjad and his last lawyer Houtan Kian, all three currently inmates, provides no new information about this case which has aroused intense and high mobilization méMOTS in Western countries ...





Sentenced to have his eyes burned with acid
Iran Daily / AFP, December 11
The Supreme Court has sentenced a man convicted of having lost sight of his mistress's husband, to have his eyes burnt with acid ...
The Supreme Court upheld the sentence imposed by a court or a sentence of blindness acid, in accordance with "the sentence Qisas," the Islamic term for "Eye for an eye" - the law of retaliation for violent crimes.
Attorney Qom, Mostafa Barzegar Ganji, said that the sanction was necessary and said: "We asked forensic experts to oversee the operation to render the condemned blind." Several
acid attacks have been recorded in recent years.



Mehdi Ashraf Fathi dies following barriers to care posed by Iraqi forces
Iranfocus.com, December 11

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The Iranian Mehdi Fathi died Friday of cancer in response to restrictions imposed by the Iraqi forces that had delayed several months his care in a specialized hospital. These restrictions ordered by the Iranian regime had accelerated the deterioration of his health to a point of no return ...



The Iranian foreign minister sacked e
IRNA / AFP, December 13


President Ahmadinejad has sacked Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and appointed the leader of the Iranian nuclear program the interim. Ahmadinejad has appointed Ali Akbar Salehi to temporarily replace Mr. Mottaki, pending the appointment of his successor must be approved by the Parliament ...

It was Monday in Senegal, where he delivered a message from Ahmadinejad to President Abdoulaye Wade an hour before the announcement of his sacking.

Eviction of Mottaki and the appointment of Mr. Salehi for his acting came as Iran has resumed in Geneva last week, after a year of deadlock, his discussions with world powers about its record controversial nuclear.



Human Rights: Ambassador British summoned by Tehran
AFP, December 13
The Iranian Foreign Ministry Monday summoned the British Ambassador Simon Gass after he posted on the website of the Embassy of Great Britain to an article criticizing Tehran the situation of human rights in Iran.



Dakar recalls its ambassador to Tehran
AFP, December 15
Senegal has recalled its ambassador to Iran, accusing Tehran of failing to provide explanations of "satisfactory" to "the affair the shipment of arms "discoveries in October in Nigeria and for the Gambia, according to a statement released Wednesday ...
Iran, sentenced in June for the sixth time by the Security Council of the UN, has since been under the blow of harsh international economic sanctions, including Western countries suspect Tehran of seeking that, despite his repeated denials , to build an atomic bomb ...
In Tehran, an Iranian lawmaker, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, has confirmed that weapons were good for the Gambia, an Iranian company has "signed a contract to sell weapons several years ago."



anti-Shiite bombing Chabahar
ILNA / AFP, December 15
At least 36 people were killed and fifty others wounded in a suicide bombing on Wednesday morning near a Shiite mosque Chabahar ( south-east) during the celebrations of Ashura Shiite mourning.
"According to latest reports, 36 people were killed and 50 wounded by the explosion that occurred near the place Farmandari among the faithful who were holding a procession" religious, "said an official with the Red Crescent, Mahmoud Mozafar ...



Ottawa again asks Tehran to release seven Baha'i leaders
AFP, December 17


Canada has condemned the detention again on Friday in Iran for seven leaders of Baha'i religious community and called for their unconditional release.
Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon complained in a statement, "continued defiance" displayed by him by the Iranian government "to the rights of all Iranians."
"To my great regret, I note that the Iranian authorities still hold the seven leaders of the Baha'i community whose conviction to ten years imprisonment was announced in September 2010, "he said.
" They were detained without cause for 28 months in harsh conditions in prison in Gohardasht.

"The charges against them to paint intentionally misrepresents their religion and their commitment to their community. Canada has repeatedly said that any detention of such bases is excessive and that detainees should be released unconditionally, "says Cannon, reiterating a call made in a similar statement last September 17.



Sharp rise in gasoline and diesel to remove subsidies
AFP, December 19
Most Iranians have learned Sunday awoke to the sharp rise in energy prices, particularly gasoline and diesel fuel used by the government as part of a plan to eliminate direct subsidies.
Sunday morning, police were present around gas stations to avoid possible violence as was the case in June 2007 during the announcement of quotas of gasoline. But no incidents were reported and traffic was at its usual level.

Saturday evening, President Ahmadinejad announced during a televised speech the implementation of the plan, called "economic surgery", stressing that it was the "largest and most popular of the country economically."
With this plan, the price of subsidized gasoline is 4 times that of gasoline and unsubsidized increases by 75%.

The allowance price of 60 liters of gasoline per month given to each motorist. Beyond this quota, motorists will pay $ 0.70 per liter of gasoline instead of $ 0.40 previously.
The price of diesel is it multiplied by 9.
The price of electricity, water and gas are, in turn, be increased from three to five, according to a tier system by taking into account the consumption ...



Germany calls on Iran to make a gesture in favor of two journalists
AFP, December 19
The German Minister of Foreign Affairs and key church leaders in Germany have called Sunday Iran to make a gesture on the occasion of Christmas, on behalf of two German journalists detained, reports the weekly Bild am Sonntag.
"I urge the Iranian government, during the Christian holiday of Christmas is also respected in the Muslim world, to act of humanity "against the two men, including by allowing their families to visit them," said Minister Guido Westerwelle.
The two Germans, a reporter and a photographer working for the Bild am Sonntag were arrested in October while interviewing in Tabriz (northwestern Iran) and the son of an Iranian lawyer sentenced to death by stoning in a case of adultery and murder, Sakineh-Mohammadi Ashtiani ...



A woman executed by hanging in Qazvin
IRNA / AFP, December 20
Woman Sentenced for serial murder was executed by hanging in the central prison of Qazvin (center).
The woman, Mahin Qadiri, was convicted of the murders of five women forties between February 2008 and May 2009.



Iran executes 11 rebels Sunni group Jundullah
AFP, December 20
Eleven members of the Sunni rebel group Jundullah (Soldiers of God), which claimed the attack against Shiite murderer of 15 December in south-eastern Iran, were hanged on Monday morning ...
According to local law, some of those executed had participated in these recent years in attacks against two Shiite mosques in Zahedan, capital of the province, and against members of the Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic regime's ideological army.



Panahi sentenced to six years in prison
AFP, December 21



The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, close to the opposition, was sentenced to six years in prison, and Justice He was banned from making films or leave the country during the next 20 years, a decision that caused the mobilization of world cinema, especially French.



Ex-American leaders wear their support Modjahidine
AFP, December 22


Several former senior U.S. administration of George W. Bush made Wednesday in Paris to support Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin, calling the U.S. to withdraw from its list of terrorist organizations.
Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, former Minister of Justice Michael Mukasey and the former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sought a change of policy towards Iran's .. .



80 lashes for drinking alcohol
ISNA / AFP, December 22
A man whose identity is not revealed, was flogged in public in the province of Khuzestan (south West) after being convicted of drinking. The sentence, 80 lashes, was applied Saturday on a city square of Ramshir.



UN adopts a resolution critical vis-à-vis Iran
Belga, 23 December
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution critical situation of human rights in Iran, "frequently" violated.

The General Assembly of the UN "is deeply concerned about serious violence and widespread human rights" in Iran, including taking the following forms: "the use of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading including flogging and amputations "...



Amnesty calls on Iran to save a Kurdish militant sentenced to death
AI, 25 December


The organization has called on Iran to save a Kurdish militant sentenced to death, to be performed Sunday, according to the Defense of Human Rights based in London.

Habibollah Latifi, a young law student, was sentenced to death in 2008 for involvement in armed activities in the Iranian province of Kurdistan and his sentence was upheld on appeal in February 2009, announced his lawyer March of that year.



A man executed in Sari
IRNA, December 26
A man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged Saturday Sari (north), as the City Attorney "This person was hanged early Saturday morning after being convicted for possession, transportation and sale of narcotics, crack cocaine," said attorney Sari Assadollah Jafari without providing details.



Four hangings in Ahvaz and two Saveh
Kayhan Daily / AFP, December 26
Several men convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced a man to death for rape were hanged on Saturday morning.

Three drug traffickers, identified as AA, HM and JJ, were hanged to prison in Ahvaz, like a man identified as Gh. F. and convicted of rape.

Moreover, as the Javan newspaper, Hassan and Ahmad Amini Davtalab Sanghar, also sentenced to death for drug trafficking were hanged on Saturday in Saveh (center).



TWO POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE HANGED THIS MORNING
Iran Focus / AFP, December 28

• Ali Saremi, emblematic of Iranian political prisoners
Ali Saremi, 63 , is emblematic of Iranian political prisoners were executed This morning at dawn convicted Moharebeh (warring against God) because of its adherence to the WIPO group.
In the death row for nearly a year, Ali Saremi had been accused of Moharebeh (war against God). He was arrested last summer in 2007 for having participated in the cemetery Khavaran at a ceremony in memory of the 30,000 political prisoners executed in 1988 in an expeditious manner in the terribly famous "prison massacre".



Opposition condemns execution of a hero of the Resistance
Maryam Rajavi leader of the main Iranian opposition in exile denounced today as a "despicable act" the execution of Ali Saremi in Tehran, considered by the Mojahedin as "the most famous political prisoners" in Iran ...


• Ali Akbar Siadat convicted of spying for Israel
Ali Akbar Siadat was arrested in 2007 and subsequently convicted for having provided sensitive information to Israel.


A man sentenced to lose an eye and ear
Kayhan Daily / AFP, 30 December
A man was sentenced to lose an eye and an ear for throwing acid in the face of a man causing him to lose sight and ear. ...



hanged four people in Zahedan
IRNA / AFP, December 31
Four Iranians convicted of murder and hostage-taking were hanged Saturday morning in Zahedan (southeast).

These Barahoui Mahmoud Shahram Naroui, Zohour-Assef Ahmad-Doust and Jahanbaksh Barahoui, who participated in several "hostage" to ask for ransom from their families. They had killed "several of their hostages ".

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