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Persianbanoo - There is no news on the status of the arrested earthquake aid worker activists after they were transferred out of Tabriz prison.

Radio Zamaneh - Reports from Iran indicate that scores of volunteers at the camps for earthquake victims in Eastern Azerbaijan Province have been arrested by Islamic Republic security forces during disputes over the distribution of aid.

AFP - Two leading rights groups on Tuesday called for an end to international cash and technical assistance to Iran's anti-drug campaign, which they said was bolstering a rise in executions.

Freedom Messenger - Tehran’s court of appeal confirmed last week the 10-year sentence imposed on Omid Kokabee, a physics PhD student who has been in prison in Iran since February 2011.

Freedom Messenger - In the past few days, the flogging sentence of a number of political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison was carried out. According to reports, the flogging of Kamyar Iazi, who is a doctor, was to the extent that his body bled as a result.

Persianbanoo - Step by step escalation of extremely harsh treatment of the political prisoners in Evin prison continued with lashing of some of the political prisoners and summoning to prison the people whose sentences were issued long ago, entered a new phase during Ghadr nights in Ramadan (The assassination of Imam Ali that is mourned by the Shiits).

GVF — At least 28 Kurdish prisoners face execution in Iranian prisons, says the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

Persianbanoo - Dr. Mohamad Hassan Yousef Pourseifi has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.