Reactions to the violation of Human rights in Iran
1. Farda radio has made a statement indicating that “as a result of upcoming of presidential elections, pressure on the families of Farda radio employees are increasing”. According to Arman Mastofi, the head of the radio, during the past few weeks, the security forces have called relatives and close friends of employees of this radio station at least 9 times, and interrogated them about activities of the workers of the radio.
2. On Sunday 9 June, the inspection officers of the female section of Evin prison shamelessly and inhumanely carried out physical inspection of young girls as well as elderly women who had came to visit their love ones, which resulted into a serious confrontation between the prisoners and the families. The families, in response to this barbaric action have announced that the behaviour of the officers would be investigated, and if the current trend continues, they will retain themselves from further visit.
3. Last week Tuesday 4 June, the United Nation Human Rights Council, took actions against the human rights violations in Iran and demanded respect for human rights in Iran.
4. On Saturday 1st June, Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner from section 209 of Evin prison after being physically abused by security forces started hunger strike.
5. On Sunday 9 June, following the call from Kurdish human rights defenders and active followers of Yarsan order, a protest was held in front of the Kermanshah Governorate. Due to the unfair sentences and widespread repressions towards followers of Yarsan order by ‘the religion department of the intelligence service’, and other ‘Basij-related religions committee’, more than a thousand Kurdish citizens gathered and protested in front of the Kermanshah governorate.
6. Furthermore, Reporters-without-Borders have issued a statement requesting international journalists who are travelling to Iran for elections, to interview the families of 54 imprisoned journalists and web-loggers who have been imprisoned either in the 2009 movement or in the early presidential election of Mr Ahmadinejad.
7. A number of Iranian labour organizations wrote a joint letter of complain to the President of the International Labour Organization regarding unacceptable wages and working conditions of labours in Iran. In this letter, they have requested ‘violations of human rights of Iranian workers’ to be investigated.
8. On Saturday 6 June, Canadian Parliament passed a motion to consider the mass executions in Iran, in the summer of 1988 as a Crime against humanity.
9. Two months after imprisonment of Jamil Karimi, a member of the Coalition Council of Iranian Reformists and an advisor to County Mayer in reforming Women conditions, a number of political/civil activists from the city of Shiraz have requested immediate release of Mr. Karimi.
10. More than 190 female human rights activists published a statement a day before the eleventh presidential elections, warning that these days, women rights are being violated more than ever in this country. In this statement, whilst mentioning the exclusion of women as a presidential elections candidate, except in few cases, most candidates have been disregarding the rights of gender equality and needs of women and instead have been competing against each other.

Press releases and cyber space
1. According to the news Hesama Adin Islamlo, the editor of the local art and culture magazine of the city of Pasargad in Cirjan, has been arrested and transferred to a prison in Kerman, but there is no information on his exact whereabouts.
2. Over 100 media activists have complained to Filtering Committee in response to limiting the activities of news centres and websites in Iran.
3. Google has announced that “massive attacks have been incurred by Iranian authorities on tens of thousands of Iranian G-mail users in the past three weeks”.

Issued sentences: execution, whipping, amputations, imprisonment and detention
1. According to reports, on the 8th of June Fatemeh Ziyayi Azad (a political activist who spent time in prison in the 1980s) was arrested in her house by security forces. There has been no news with regard to her whereabouts so far and her family have not been contacted.
2. On Saturday 8th of June 2013, Hassan Rohani held a political rally for the upcoming elections in the Shirudi sports complex which has a capacity of 4,000. A number of participants were arrested following the event.
3. One of the participants who were arrested was a student activist (Amin Vatani) who was physically assaulted by the security forces before being arrested.
4. On the 9th of June, the court of the city of Namin ordered the destruction of the book recordings from the author Babak Roghani.
5. On Monday 10th of June, there were reports that two supporters of the presidential candidate Mohammad-Reza Aaref were arrested in the city of Kerman.
6. On Monday 10th of June, Honavar Shojayi was once again taken from Evin prison to the special Court of Clergies in Tehran. He was sentenced to an additional 15 months in prison.
7. A few members of Hasan Rohani’s election campaign team were beaten and arrested in Sabzevar and taken to an unknown location.
8. The lawyer Seyed Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabayi who represents the Hashemi Rafsanjani family has been suspended from practicing law by the revolutionary court due to allegedly spreading lies and distorting public opinion.
9. In the run-up to the eleventh presidential elections, on Wednesday 12th of June, Amir Chamani (a student activist from Azad University) was sentenced to receiving 40 lashes.
10. On Saturday 8 June, Vahab Gholami, a council candidate from Ravansar city, was arrested in his house by security forces. According to this report, the reasons of his arrest and the charges have not been indicated and there is no sign of his where-about.
11. On Friday night 9 June Akbar Amini, one of the political activists in Iran has been arrested in his house and was transferred to the 209th section of Evin prison. The security officers had warrant from sixth branch of Evin court for his arrest.

The rights of followers of the ethnic and conscience diversity in Iran
1. Following the insult to Yaresan’s (Ahl Haque) beliefs by Islamic republic of Iran security forces, two Kurdish citizens namely Hassan Razavi and Nikmard Taheri who were the followers of this order, in an action of protest, on 4th and 5th June respectively, attempted suicide by setting themselves on fire.
2. Following the self-immolation of two “Ahl-Haque” dervishes known as Yaresani dervishes, in a reaction to the Hamadan prison officers’ force shaving of one of the dervishes’ moustache, number of followers of this order demonstrated in Kermanshah Province.
3. Hassan Razavi, whom, on 4 June in response to the insult of Hamadan’s prison Officers to one of his co believers had set himself on fire in front of the city Governor’s Office, passed away on 11 June in a hospital in Tehran.
4. According to the recent reports, security officers of Iranian government transferred Masoud Shams-Nezhad, a first grade lawyer and a professor of Universities of Payam Noor and Aazad in Uroomiye, from the central prison to an unknown location.He has been charged with cooperating and promoting Kurdish opposition parties. However, these charges have not yet been proven.
5. Furthermore, on Sunday evening 9 June Maytham Heidari and Rasool Karami, two Yaresani citizens were arrested.
6. On Wednesday 29 May, Mohammadreza Farid, Saeed Sadeghi, Hamidreza Gheirdari, three new Christian members of private home churches in Isfahan, were arrested by security officers and transferred to an unknown location.
7. On 12 June, Mostafa Abdi one of the Gonabadi dervishes was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment by Enghelab- Islami court in Tehran. It is reported that he is charged with disruption of public orders and activity against national security.

Universities and Academics
1. It is reported that during the past 8 years, more than 1,000 university students from across the country have been suspended.
2. According to reports, on Monday 10 June five members of Abbaspoor University Union with the names of, “Salehi”, “Mahmoudi”, “Abdoli”, “Keshavarz” and “Yazdi Manesh” were summoned by the Investigating Committee and subsequently arrested.
3. Vahid Asghari, a student web-blogger who is currently in Evin prison, refused to attend court trial. The reasons given for not attending the court are: – forced wearing of prison cloth in the court, not given permission to meet his lawyer even once, lack of knowledge of previous and present charges, lack of presentation of charges from the First, Supreme and other courts plus many other important reasons.
4. Furthermore, Dr. Esmat Savadi deputy head of culture of Azad University of science and research said:”the hijab and chastity library with over 150 books has been launched by the Institute of Science and Research of the university”.

Workers and vulnerable strata of society
1. Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, an imprisoned labour and child rights activist, whom after having his son infected with leukaemia was sent on leave, has now returned back to the Evin prison due to refusal of extension of leave by Tehran’s Attorney general “Mahmood Dowlatabadi”.
2. Despite the fact that building scaffolding and well digging are considered to be the hardest and the most dangerous jobs in construction, these two groups have been denied social security insurance benefits.
3. Representative of the Zagros steel factory workers reported unemployment and uncertainty of 270 workers, despite the promises of the officials regarding reopening of the factory.
4. Furthermore, Ahmed Shokat the head of association of construction workers and craftsmen of the country has disapproved the budget of 9 thousand billion rials set by the parliamentary commissions for Social Security Insurance of constructional workers and add that “this is against articles 29 and 75 of constitution of the country and in clear contradiction of the law regarding ‘Eliminating Barriers in Sorting out the Insurance of Construction Workers'”.
5. Reza Shahabi’s Physical condition, an imprisoned labour activist, is unfavourable. He has been sent to the Evin prison hospital twice since 10 June.

Other human rights violations
1. It is more than thirteen months since Sohil Babady has been in section 350 of Evine prison without knowing his own charges and sentence.
2. On Saturday 8 Jun, Dr Honey Yazerlou one of the political prisoner in section 350 of Evin prison who had heart problem, has been denied of going to hospital because of his refusal of wearing prisoner uniform.
3. With the approach of eleventh presidential election, the Iranian government have banned the use of satellite dishes, confiscated them from residential complexes and transmitted interruption signals in the city of Salmas.
4. On Wednesday 12 Jun Iran Home Office refused to give permission to the supporters of Dr Rohani to gather in Heidarnia Stadium.
5. In the wake of passing away of Ayatolah Jalaludin Taheri Isfahani, one of the reformist clergymen, on Friday 7 June 2013 an assembly commemorating his death was organized in Aazam mosque of Qom by Ayatolah Mosavi Ardebili which unfortunately, resulted to confrontation from others.
6. Dr. Ali Akbar Syari, one of the campaigners of Mr. Mohammad Reza Aref, a presidential election candidate, has warned increase of psychological illnesses in the country and said: “psychological illness in the years 2001 was 21 percent, and this in 2009 has increased to 34 percent”.
7. According to the news received, Hussein Ali Shahriari, Chairman of the Parliamentary Health Commission has said that: “it is right to say that the price of drug has increased by 30 to 70 percent”.
8. Hasan Rasouli, a spokesman of the campaign in headquarter of Mohammad Reza Aref, pointed to the remarks of Mr Aref on Friday 7 June regarding arrestment of some of his supporters in Oromiyeh and defended himself against the claim of some people about falsehood of his statements, and said the host of this presidential election candidate still remains in custody.