Roozonline-
2008.04.03]
By: Shahram Rafizadeh

Last year ( Iranian calendar year 1386 ) was the year of oppression on students, women and journalists !

arrests and trials in the year 1386 (2007-2008)

Year 2007-2008 was the year of widespread oppression. According to reports, more than 95 students have faced jail term from one week and more.At least 87 journalists and managing editor were arrested or stood on trial and close to 40 women human rights advocates were put on trial or sent to prison.

Students :
On Iranian New Years day (Nowrouz) 13 students were still in prison.
These students are :
Peyman Piran , Said Derakhshandi, Abolfazl jahandar, Ehsan Mansuri, Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghasaban, Yaghub Mehrnahad, Yaser Goli, Sabah Nasiri, Hedayat Ghazali, Behruz Karimizadeh, Ali kantouri and Asadollah Shah.

Between New Year (Nowrouz-spring )of 2007 and 2008 more than 309 students faced with problems such as : expulsion from school, no permission to enter the school, summoning to the deciplinary committee, summoning to the court, detention ( less than one week),

Expulsion of more than 40 university professors !
closure of more than 90 students publication !
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Sexual assult to a young women student of Razi University in the city oof Kermanshah by the deputy of the Herasat office ( one of the security intelligence of the Islamic Republic in the offices and universities ) .
Sexual assault to another young women of "University of Azad Islami" in the city of Ashtian by one of her interrogator.
Student- Ebrahim Lotfollahi was killed while in a detention run by the Ministry of Information in the city of Sanandaj.
Death of Doctor Zahra Baniyaghub in a detention run by the police forces in the city of Hamadan.

The murder of Ms. Samieh Kakavand student of law at Meybod University in the city of Yazd by an agent of police force .

The death penalty issued for Mr. Yaghub Mehrnahad a student and human rights activist in the city of Zahedan.

Women , campaign for signature and be arrested !

According to report on 2007-2008 close to 40 women human rights advocates were arrested.
They were:
Mahbubeh Hosainzadeh, Nahid Keshavarz, Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh, Ehteram Shadfar, Bahareh Hedayat, Shahnaz Gholami, Sepideh Pooraghaei, Nafiseh Azad, Zara Amjadian, Jelveh Javaheri, Mansureh Shojaei, and Nazli Farokhi together with 20 women human rights activists from the city of Khoram Abad .

Maryam Hossainkhah and Jelveh Javaheri were allegedly charged with writing an article and report in women human rights websites.

Ronak Saffarzadeh and Hana Abdi women human rights advocates in the city of Sanandaj.

Raheleh Asgarizadeh and Nasim Khosravi two member of the art committee for change and equality on women status who have spent a period in prison and or still are in prison..


In the last year many activists from the women movement went on trial or went to prison. According to the report the number of women who have gone to prison is 14 women.

The first sentencing was given to Azadeh Forghani . She was sentenced to two years imprisonment , which was suspended for five years.
The last sentencing was issued against women activist Ms. Mino Mortazi Langrudi . She was sentenced to six months imprisonment and ten lashes.

Several human rights advocate were also banned to leave the country including Ms. Parvin Ardalan who was the winner of the Swedish Olof Palme’s prize. She was leaving the country to receive the award in Sweden but stopped in the airport.

Journalists , 87 arrest and trial during the last year !

More than 87 journalists or managing editors were detained or went on trial during the last year and at least journalist Mr. Adnan Hassanpoor was sentenced to death.

Said Matinpoor, Yaghub Salakinia, Soheil Asefi, Farshad Ghorbanpoor , Masud Bastani, Mahbubeh Hossainzadeh, Maryam Hossainkhah, Reza Valizadeh and Emad Baghi , Omid Ahmadzadeh, Seyed Ali Hashemi, Abolfazl Abedini, Adel Mazari, Ahmad Badiran, Ako Kordnasab, Ajlal Ghavami and Mohammad Sadigh Kabudvand are the journalists who were detained during the last year . Mohammad Sadigh Kabudvand is still prison.

Although journalist Mr. Ali Farahbakhsh who was in prison from previous year was release 2007 . But journalist Mr. Kaveh Javanmard a Kurdish journalist who was arrested from previous year is still in prison in the city of Sanandaj . He is sentenced to two years in prison. The most severe sentence was given to Adnan Hassanpoor . The revolutionary court in Kurdistan sentenced him to death .

The most surprising sentence to a journalist was 35 lashes and 100,000 Tuman fine given to Mr. Mohammad Javad Roh for writing a critical report on the banning of a book four years ago .

Nazi Azima a reporter for Radio Farda who have gone to Iran to visit her ill mother in Iran was banned leaving Iran , until she put some bail in order to be able to leave Iran again.
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