Until now for Zahra Kazemi's court, They didn't appoint a time yet .

Gooya News -Persian
Iranian Students News Agency( ISNA)- Mohammad Seif -Zadeh one of the lawyer of Zahra Kazemi : Until now for Zahra Kazemi's court, They didn't appoint a time yet .We have expressed the faults and difficulties arround this file.Together with other lawyers of Zahra Kazemi's file, we did meet with officials of the branch # 34 of the review court. and spoke about these problems. About Arash Sigarchi , One of our lawyer is on his way to the city of Rasht to meet him in " Lakan prison ".

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"Students Committee in Defense of Political Prisoners": " Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdollahi" The weblog writer has been sentenced to 6 months imprisonment

Gooya News Persian:
"Students Committee in Defense of Political Prisoners": " Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdollahi" The weblog writer has been sentenced to 6 months imprisonment.
A weblog writer has been sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and payment of "one million Rials" by the judiciary in Kerman city.He is been charged of insulting leader , propaganda against system in his weblog and internet sites. The complaint on him came from the Information office in Rafsanjan city.
( 700 rials= 1 Canadian Dollar -IWC)
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The Association of Iran's Syndicate Journalists" :The court of Arash Sigarchi was held in a closed door and there was no jury present

Gooya News - Persian : "The Association of Iran's Syndicate Journalists" , Expressed its regret on the sentencing of "Arash Sigarchi's" .ISNA - Tehran reports:
The sentencing of Arash Sigarchi was the subject of todays "AISJ" discussion.
The court of Arash Sigarchi was held in a closed door and there was no jury present.
The Association hope that Arash be released and the case be withdrawn.

Arash a weblog writer was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. A document enogh clear to condemn Islamic Republic in next UN human rights session.

"Arash Sigarchi" weblog writer and a journalist has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.14 years in prison for just expressing his mind on weblog / print . This is very clear and the regime can not hide behind any pretext. This is a clear failure of Islamic Republic's justice system. This means a young man must spend 14 years of his life in prison for just expressing his mind.
The 3rd branch of the Islamic revolution's court in Gilan province issued the sentencing on Feb. 2/2005 but the news of the sentencing surfaced on Feb.22/2005.Arash has been accused of espionage, helping hostile governments, helping hostile forces,inciting disorder, action against national security , interview with Radio Farda and insulting countries officials . The revolution's court issued the sentence based on the information by the agents of ministry of information.
Arash is editor in chief of ' Gilan Emrooz" and weblog writer of " Panjereh Eltehab" , He is 28 years old. Arash Sigarchi is in " Lakan prison" in the city of Rasht since Jan.17/2005 .Arash was the editor in chief of Gilan Emrooz since 4 years ago. He is a seriouse and reponsible journalist who critically wrote about the regime's oppression policy and particularly he was brave enough to defend his 2 imprisoned colleagues Ruzbeh Mirebrahimi and Shahram Rafizadeh. He as well reported in his weblog about the gathering of the families of executed political prisoners in "Khavaran Cemetery" .
Regime's must immidiately and unconditionally release :
Arash Sigarchi
Mojtaba Samieinezhad
Mojtaba Lotfi

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The political prisoners of " Rejaei Shahr " , announced the end of their hunger strike.

Gooya News - Persian : The political prisoners of " Rejaei Shahr " , announced the end of their hunger strike.In a statement to political groups , human rights advocates, freedom lovers and social activists , They have said: The political prisoners of the" middle age prison" of Rejaei Shahr in protest to the worsening situation of citizen's rights particularly to the recent pressures on political prisoners of the country and for the unity among democratic forces have started their hunger strike. In the statement they have thanked all of those supported their strike.

In their statement they demanded for ; The formation of an executive committee for a transitional referandum as the only way to arrive to the transfer of political power to people with the cooperation of UN particularly the general secretary of security council and international human rights organizations .
At the end they hoped for the freedom of Iran & Iranian ( Iran will never dies )
And they signed the statement as: The hunger strike prisoners of horrendous prison of Rejaei Shahr.

" The Association in Defense of Press Freedom " : At present 8 people who are active in press are in prison.

" ISNA " - The Iranian Students News Agency - Persian : " The Association in Defense of Press Freedom " : At present 8 people who are active in press are in prison.

The Association in Defense of Press Freedom announced that; At present there are 8 journalists and press personality in prison.

According to the report recieved by the ISNA , Mashaollah Shamsolvaezin , The spokperson for the association on the occasion of 3rd conferrence on reviewing the press related issues in Iran has said: Abbas Abdi, Akbar Ganji, Reza Alijani, Hoda Saber , Hossain Ghazian, Siyamak Pourzand, Ensafali Hedayat and Arash Sigarchi are presently in prison.
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Association of Weblog Writers in Iran: demanded for the immidiate and unconditional release of " Mojtaba Samiei Nezhad".

Gooya News - Persian : "The Association of Weblog Writers in Iran" , demanded for the immidiate and unconditional release of " Mojtaba Samiei Nezhad" .Unfortunately its been a few days since the release of Mojtaba Samiei Nezhad , student of communication and writer of a weblog with the name of " I am not what I am " which is known as " Madyar ", that once again he has been sent to prison with an unbelivable bail of 100 million Tuman* (* 700 Tuman = 1 dollar Canadian ).
Unconditional and immidiate release of Mojtaba Samiei Nezhad who did not commit any crime except writing his openions in his weblog, Is our least demand.Without the doubt the judiciary , the judge and the prosecutor of the file with their actions which is in contradiction to the existing laws are illegal and must be brought to trial and cross examined .
Unfortunately for the reason of an atmosphere of intimidation and fear that are exist around families of political prisoners , press and weblog writers , their news are not being published and we are kept completely uninformed and we are worried about the life of Mojtaba Samiei Nezhad.

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The Association of Young Journalists is worried about the health of Akbar Ganji .

"ILNA " : The Association of Young Journalists is worried about the health of Akbar Ganji .
Tehran - "Kar Iran News Agency"
The Association of Young Journalists in a statement while worried about the health of Akbar Ganji the imprisoned journalist , demanded for his conditional release.
According to the report by " ILNA " it has written in this statement that : Akbar Ganji is on his 4th years in prison and the prison condition is not suitable and does not have enough medical facilities . Due to this situation he has developed asthma ( according to his lawyer ; Shireen Ebadi ) and his health worsened and he needs immidiate medical attention.


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The Association of Syndicate Journalists demanded for the release of journalists.

Shargh newspaper - Persian : The Association of Syndicate Journalists in a letter to Hashemi Shahroudi , The head of the judiciary power demanded;" to grant a leave " to the imprisoned journalists .
The imprisoned journalists are: Akbar Ganji, Abbas Abdi, Hosein Ghazian, Ensafali Hedayat, Taghi Rahmani, Reza Alijani , Hoda Saber and Arash Sigarchi.
The Association of Syndicate Journalists at the same time expects that the above mentioned journalists as well be possibly released.
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An Iranian christian for the reason of leaving Islam and changing it to christianity is in the court !

An Iranian christian for the reason of leaving Islam and changing it to christianity is in the court !

Gooya news- Persian
According to the news from the site of christians ( www.compassdirect.org ) an Iranian by the name of Hamid Pourmand who has become christian from 25 years ago and was active in the divine society of the church , five months ago together with several members of this church has been arrested. Pourmand who is having a rank within the army, is accused of deluding the army, because a non moslem can not becom a ranking personnel in the army. Pourmand is saying that he has enough document which shows that the army completly knew of his religious change. According to the news his crime is infact changing religion and because of this reason he might be condemned to death.IRAN WATCH CANADA
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Heinrich Boll Foundation" To Islamic Republic's judiciary :Free Akbar Ganji!

" Heinrich Boll Foundation" To Islamic Republic's judiciary :
Free Akbar Ganji Too. Two managers of " Heinrich Boll foundation " in Germany has published a communique while welcoming the freedom of Mr. Eshkevari . Demanded for the freedom of Akbar Ganji.
Heinrich Boll Foundation: We demand from officials in Islamic Republic judiciary, to release Akbar Ganji who simply exercised his natural rights for expressing his thoughts.

In another news " Shireen Ebadi " the lawyer of Akbar Ganji met her client in Evin prison and described his situation as very sick with a severe breathing problem.

Akbar Ganji is an international award winning investigative journalist, Who bravely followed the "chain murdering file " of writers / translators , poet and political activists in the hands of agents from the ministry of information.He is in prison since April 2000 .

Why Islamic Republic Harrasses the children's rights advocates?

Gooya News Persian - "Azad Zamani" , The secretary of the " Association in Defense of Children's Rights " in the city of Sanandaj, Has been summoned to the Ministry of Information and " Amaken " office *1 .At 9:00 am Saturday Feb. 5 / 2005 , The agents from the ministry through telephone has informed this issue to the association and at 12 :00 noon time personally attended in the office of the association in Sanandaj and asked for Mr. Azad Zamani . The agents demanded that Mr. Zamani must come to their office till 4: 00 pm.
The agents from " Amaken " also demanded that he will show himself in their office too.The summoning news made the people as well as the members of the association worried . It is needed to say that the " Association in Defense of Children's rights " is a Non-Governmental Organization.
Amaken Office = Is a department run by the Guardians corps / Sepahe Pasdaran .

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Continuation of hunger strike by political prisoners of Gohardasht prison

Voice of Germany- Keyvan Dokht Ghahari : Continuation of hunger strike by political prisoners of Gohardasht prison in the city of Rejaie of Karaj.
Gradually the number of those who went on hunger strike becoming larger. The strike is because of mixing criminal prisoners with political . The family members of prisoners are threatened not to speak to media and journalists and human rights organizations. some of the political prisoners who are in Gohardasht prison went on strike since Jan.14, 2005 . These prisoners are:
Hojat Zamani, Jafar Eghdami and Valiolah Faiz-mahdavi. They demand the followings: Separation of political prisoners from criminal, to stop the violation of press freedom and the right of students and formation of a committee to put pressure on Iran to follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.The other political prisoners who joined to the strike are : Bina Darab-Zand, Dr. Farzad Hamidi, Mehrdad Lohrasbi and Arzhang Dawoodi.
Gohardasht prison according to regime is a location to keep murderers and criminals.
Hashmatollah Tabarzadi in Evin prison also joined the strike.
In this regard the students organizations abroad " Iran Freedom of Expression Frontiers " is worried about the health and safety of the prisoners in strike.
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General manager of Tehran's province prisons : We are managing hotel instead of prison.

" ISNA" ( Persian ) - The general manager of the prisons of Tehran's province: Instead of gurding the jail , We are managing the hotel !

The reporters of the news agencies and some of the internal newspapers, Today have visited the Evin prison and the prison in Rejaie city.
According to ISNA , Evin prison has more than 2000 prisoners or according to the prison officials
( Mr. Solaymani ): 2000 " Aid seekers " , the restoration; which was started from the year 2003 and will end on next spring . In Evin most prisoners are of " Security risk ".The prison of Rejaie city in Karaj also has more than 2800 prisoner. some of the prisoners when talking to the reporters were saying that; they are innocent and that they filed complaint but no one is listening to them.
The general manager of the prisons of Tehran's province said : Because of the facilities that are in the prison and for the prisoners, We are managing hotel instead of prison.
According to other news , the reporters that were visited the prisons were selected. As a result many reporters complained of not being invited to visit the prisons.

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