{"id":211092,"date":"2018-12-17T20:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211092-iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:47:53","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_7vEcVwXPYw8\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F7vEcVwXPYw8%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vEcVwXPYw8\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M16S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-12-14T20:16:04Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_7vEcVwXPYw8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F7vEcVwXPYw8%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7vEcVwXPYw8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F7vEcVwXPYw8%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018 Iranian Prisoner of Conscience May Lose Kidney If Not Treated The Office of the Prosecutor in the city of Karaj has refused to authorize hospital transfers for prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad, putting him at grave risk of losing a kidney. The children\u2019s rights defender has been recently taken to a hospital in Karaj, following severe kidney pain. Doctors said his right kidney has shrunk to an abnormal size and the left one is suffering from a cyst and if he is not treated, he could lose one of them. According to the doctors\u2019 diagnosis, Mr. Sherzad\u2019s kidney disease is a result of hunger strike and inappropriate nutrition in prison. Shirzad\u2019s requests to be hospitalized outside of Raja\u2019e Shahr Prison, were rejected by the prosecutor\u2019s office in the city of Karaj. Poverty Kills 10,000 of Iran&#039;s Infants Every Year The head of the Infant Health Department at the Ministry of Health said that more than 10,000 of Iran\u2019s infants died per year due to growing poverty. \u201cFor every 1,000 births, 8.27 newborns die due to economic poverty in the country, and since around 1.4 million babies are born every year, more than 10,000 infants die per year,\u201d Mohammad Heidari said in comments carried by the IRNA state-run news agency. More Than Ten Protests Were Organized in Iran On Thursday, at least nine protests were held in Iran and the protesters demanded the fulfilment of their requests. Members of the Azadegan housing corporation project, the land owners by Kohestan park in Yazd, the workers of sanitizing oil tankers company in Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Hendijan\u2019s launch owners, shareholders of the bankrupt institution of Caspian, Isfahan farmers, and the clients of Ramak Khodro andNegin Khodro companies held an assembly protest on December 13, 2018. Moreover,On the 33th consecutive day of protest, the workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, accompanied by their families, have held a protest in Ahvaz streets. They were wearing white shrouds which is a symbol of readiness for martyrdom. In addition, teachers and students in Hamedan protested the approach of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to teachers. They requested IRIB to depict financial hardship of teachers and they were also in support of the release of teachers\u2019 right activists who have been imprisoned. Unemployment Rate of Iranian Women Rises From 17 to 32 Percent According to the statistics released by the Statistics Center in Iran, the number of unemployed women is higher than men. The average annual unemployment rate in Iran is 1.8%. With an annual growth rate of 3.8%, the population of unemployed women reached 37,000,516 in 2017. That means that Iranian women\u2019s unemployment rate reached a peak of 32.3% in 2017. The state-run ISNA news agency reported on November 30, 2018, that the unemployment rate of women had increased from 17% in 2005 to more than 20% in 2016. The unemployment rate for graduate students in the same period increased from 15.7 percent to 20.4 percent. Iran: Two Evin Prisoners Went on Hunger Strike Mahmoud Naji, charged with security offences, began a hunger strike on December 12, 2018 to protest his accusations and not receiving any response on his temporary release request.Ruhollah Mardani, a teacher prisoner, went on strike since December 9, 2018 toprotest the situation of prison and the poor access to health care in prison. Iran: Unpaid Workers\u2019 wages The workers of North Drilling Company protested for their unpaid wages last week. On December 13th, they reported that the wages of 3000 workers of this company were still unpaid. 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Members of the Azadegan housing corporation project, the land owners by Kohestan park in Yazd, the workers of sanitizing oil tankers company in Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Hendijan\u2019s launch owners, shareholders of the bankrupt institution of Caspian, Isfahan farmers, and the clients of Ramak Khodro andNegin Khodro companies held an assembly protest on December 13, 2018. Moreover,On the 33th consecutive day of protest, the workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, accompanied by their families, have held a protest in Ahvaz streets. They were wearing white shrouds which is a symbol of readiness for martyrdom.In addition, teachers and students in Hamedan protested the approach of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to teachers.They requested IRIB to depict financial hardship of teachers and they were also in support of the release of teachers\u2019 right activists who have been imprisoned.Unemployment Rate of Iranian Women Rises From 17 to 32 PercentAccording to the statistics released by the Statistics Center in Iran, the number of unemployed women is higher than men.The average annual unemployment rate in Iran is 1.8%. With an annual growth rate of 3.8%, the population of unemployed women reached 37,000,516 in 2017. That means that Iranian women\u2019s unemployment rate reached a peak of 32.3% in 2017.The state-run ISNA news agency reported on November 30, 2018, that the unemployment rate of women had increased from 17% in 2005 to more than 20% in 2016. 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Iran: Two Evin Prisoners Went on Hunger StrikeMahmoud Naji, charged with security offences, began a hunger strike on December 12, 2018 to protest his accusations and not receiving any response on his temporary release request.Ruhollah Mardani, a teacher prisoner, went on strike since December 9, 2018 toprotest the situation of prison and the poor access to health care in prison.Iran: Unpaid Workers\u2019 wagesThe workers of North Drilling Company protested for their unpaid wages last week.On December 13th, they reported that the wages of 3000 workers of this company were still unpaid.Moreover, the spokesperson of fire department confirmed that a construction worker was severely injured in the construction site in Zafaraniyeh.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018Iranian Prisoner of Conscience May Lose Kidney If Not Treated The Office of the Prosecutor in the city of Karaj has refused to authorize hospital transfers for prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad, putting him at grave risk of losing a kidney.The children\u2019s rights defender has been recently taken to a hospital in Karaj, following severe kidney pain.Doctors said his right kidney has shrunk to an abnormal size and the left one is suffering from a cyst and if he is not treated, he could lose one of them.According to the doctors\u2019 diagnosis, Mr. Sherzad\u2019s kidney disease is a result of hunger strike and inappropriate nutrition in prison.Shirzad\u2019s requests to be hospitalized outside of Raja\u2019e Shahr Prison, were rejected by the prosecutor\u2019s office in the city of Karaj.Poverty Kills 10,000 of Iran&#039;s Infants Every YearThe head of the Infant Health Department at the Ministry of Health said that more than 10,000 of Iran\u2019s infants died per year due to growing poverty.\u201cFor every 1,000 births, 8.27 newborns die due to economic poverty in the country, and since around 1.4 million babies are born every year, more than 10,000 infants die per year,\u201d Mohammad Heidari said in comments carried by the IRNA state-run news agency.More Than Ten Protests Were Organized in IranOn Thursday, at least nine protests were held in Iran and the protesters demanded the fulfilment of their requests. Members of the Azadegan housing corporation project, the land owners by Kohestan park in Yazd, the workers of sanitizing oil tankers company in Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Hendijan\u2019s launch owners, shareholders of the bankrupt institution of Caspian, Isfahan farmers, and the clients of Ramak Khodro andNegin Khodro companies held an assembly protest on December 13, 2018. Moreover,On the 33th consecutive day of protest, the workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, accompanied by their families, have held a protest in Ahvaz streets. They were wearing white shrouds which is a symbol of readiness for martyrdom.In addition, teachers and students in Hamedan protested the approach of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to teachers.They requested IRIB to depict financial hardship of teachers and they were also in support of the release of teachers\u2019 right activists who have been imprisoned.Unemployment Rate of Iranian Women Rises From 17 to 32 PercentAccording to the statistics released by the Statistics Center in Iran, the number of unemployed women is higher than men.The average annual unemployment rate in Iran is 1.8%. With an annual growth rate of 3.8%, the population of unemployed women reached 37,000,516 in 2017. That means that Iranian women\u2019s unemployment rate reached a peak of 32.3% in 2017.The state-run ISNA news agency reported on November 30, 2018, that the unemployment rate of women had increased from 17% in 2005 to more than 20% in 2016. 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Members of the Azadegan housing corporation project, the land owners by Kohestan park in Yazd, the workers of sanitizing oil tankers company in Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Hendijan\u2019s launch owners, shareholders of the bankrupt institution of Caspian, Isfahan farmers, and the clients of Ramak Khodro andNegin Khodro companies held an assembly protest on December 13, 2018. Moreover,On the 33th consecutive day of protest, the workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, accompanied by their families, have held a protest in Ahvaz streets. They were wearing white shrouds which is a symbol of readiness for martyrdom.In addition, teachers and students in Hamedan protested the approach of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to teachers.They requested IRIB to depict financial hardship of teachers and they were also in support of the release of teachers\u2019 right activists who have been imprisoned.Unemployment Rate of Iranian Women Rises From 17 to 32 PercentAccording to the statistics released by the Statistics Center in Iran, the number of unemployed women is higher than men.The average annual unemployment rate in Iran is 1.8%. With an annual growth rate of 3.8%, the population of unemployed women reached 37,000,516 in 2017. That means that Iranian women\u2019s unemployment rate reached a peak of 32.3% in 2017.The state-run ISNA news agency reported on November 30, 2018, that the unemployment rate of women had increased from 17% in 2005 to more than 20% in 2016. The unemployment rate for graduate students in the same period increased from 15.7 percent to 20.4 percent. Iran: Two Evin Prisoners Went on Hunger StrikeMahmoud Naji, charged with security offences, began a hunger strike on December 12, 2018 to protest his accusations and not receiving any response on his temporary release request.Ruhollah Mardani, a teacher prisoner, went on strike since December 9, 2018 toprotest the situation of prison and the poor access to health care in prison.Iran: Unpaid Workers\u2019 wagesThe workers of North Drilling Company protested for their unpaid wages last week.On December 13th, they reported that the wages of 3000 workers of this company were still unpaid.Moreover, the spokesperson of fire department confirmed that a construction worker was severely injured in the construction site in Zafaraniyeh.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018 - NCRI","og_description":"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018Iranian Prisoner of Conscience May Lose Kidney If Not Treated The Office of the Prosecutor in the city of Karaj has refused to authorize hospital transfers for prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad, putting him at grave risk of losing a kidney.The children\u2019s rights defender has been recently taken to a hospital in Karaj, following severe kidney pain.Doctors said his right kidney has shrunk to an abnormal size and the left one is suffering from a cyst and if he is not treated, he could lose one of them.According to the doctors\u2019 diagnosis, Mr. Sherzad\u2019s kidney disease is a result of hunger strike and inappropriate nutrition in prison.Shirzad\u2019s requests to be hospitalized outside of Raja\u2019e Shahr Prison, were rejected by the prosecutor\u2019s office in the city of Karaj.Poverty Kills 10,000 of Iran's Infants Every YearThe head of the Infant Health Department at the Ministry of Health said that more than 10,000 of Iran\u2019s infants died per year due to growing poverty.\u201cFor every 1,000 births, 8.27 newborns die due to economic poverty in the country, and since around 1.4 million babies are born every year, more than 10,000 infants die per year,\u201d Mohammad Heidari said in comments carried by the IRNA state-run news agency.More Than Ten Protests Were Organized in IranOn Thursday, at least nine protests were held in Iran and the protesters demanded the fulfilment of their requests. Members of the Azadegan housing corporation project, the land owners by Kohestan park in Yazd, the workers of sanitizing oil tankers company in Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Hendijan\u2019s launch owners, shareholders of the bankrupt institution of Caspian, Isfahan farmers, and the clients of Ramak Khodro andNegin Khodro companies held an assembly protest on December 13, 2018. Moreover,On the 33th consecutive day of protest, the workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, accompanied by their families, have held a protest in Ahvaz streets. They were wearing white shrouds which is a symbol of readiness for martyrdom.In addition, teachers and students in Hamedan protested the approach of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to teachers.They requested IRIB to depict financial hardship of teachers and they were also in support of the release of teachers\u2019 right activists who have been imprisoned.Unemployment Rate of Iranian Women Rises From 17 to 32 PercentAccording to the statistics released by the Statistics Center in Iran, the number of unemployed women is higher than men.The average annual unemployment rate in Iran is 1.8%. With an annual growth rate of 3.8%, the population of unemployed women reached 37,000,516 in 2017. That means that Iranian women\u2019s unemployment rate reached a peak of 32.3% in 2017.The state-run ISNA news agency reported on November 30, 2018, that the unemployment rate of women had increased from 17% in 2005 to more than 20% in 2016. The unemployment rate for graduate students in the same period increased from 15.7 percent to 20.4 percent. Iran: Two Evin Prisoners Went on Hunger StrikeMahmoud Naji, charged with security offences, began a hunger strike on December 12, 2018 to protest his accusations and not receiving any response on his temporary release request.Ruhollah Mardani, a teacher prisoner, went on strike since December 9, 2018 toprotest the situation of prison and the poor access to health care in prison.Iran: Unpaid Workers\u2019 wagesThe workers of North Drilling Company protested for their unpaid wages last week.On December 13th, they reported that the wages of 3000 workers of this company were still unpaid.Moreover, the spokesperson of fire department confirmed that a construction worker was severely injured in the construction site in Zafaraniyeh.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-12-17T20:50:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:47:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":402,"height":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@iran_policy","twitter_site":"@iran_policy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018","datePublished":"2018-12-17T20:50:34+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:47:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/"},"wordCount":14,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"keywords":["save"],"articleSection":["Multimedia: Iran news in brief"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-14-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-12-17T20:50:34+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:47:53+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, December 14, 2018Iranian Prisoner of Conscience May Lose Kidney If Not Treated The Office of the Prosecutor in the city of Karaj has refused to authorize hospital transfers for prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad, putting him at grave risk of losing a kidney.The children\u2019s rights defender has been recently taken to a hospital in Karaj, following severe kidney pain.Doctors said his right kidney has shrunk to an abnormal size and the left one is suffering from a cyst and if he is not treated, he could lose one of them.According to the doctors\u2019 diagnosis, Mr. Sherzad\u2019s kidney disease is a result of hunger strike and inappropriate nutrition in prison.Shirzad\u2019s requests to be hospitalized outside of Raja\u2019e Shahr Prison, were rejected by the prosecutor\u2019s office in the city of Karaj.Poverty Kills 10,000 of Iran's Infants Every YearThe head of the Infant Health Department at the Ministry of Health said that more than 10,000 of Iran\u2019s infants died per year due to growing poverty.\u201cFor every 1,000 births, 8.27 newborns die due to economic poverty in the country, and since around 1.4 million babies are born every year, more than 10,000 infants die per year,\u201d Mohammad Heidari said in comments carried by the IRNA state-run news agency.More Than Ten Protests Were Organized in IranOn Thursday, at least nine protests were held in Iran and the protesters demanded the fulfilment of their requests. Members of the Azadegan housing corporation project, the land owners by Kohestan park in Yazd, the workers of sanitizing oil tankers company in Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni, Hendijan\u2019s launch owners, shareholders of the bankrupt institution of Caspian, Isfahan farmers, and the clients of Ramak Khodro andNegin Khodro companies held an assembly protest on December 13, 2018. Moreover,On the 33th consecutive day of protest, the workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, accompanied by their families, have held a protest in Ahvaz streets. They were wearing white shrouds which is a symbol of readiness for martyrdom.In addition, teachers and students in Hamedan protested the approach of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to teachers.They requested IRIB to depict financial hardship of teachers and they were also in support of the release of teachers\u2019 right activists who have been imprisoned.Unemployment Rate of Iranian Women Rises From 17 to 32 PercentAccording to the statistics released by the Statistics Center in Iran, the number of unemployed women is higher than men.The average annual unemployment rate in Iran is 1.8%. With an annual growth rate of 3.8%, the population of unemployed women reached 37,000,516 in 2017. That means that Iranian women\u2019s unemployment rate reached a peak of 32.3% in 2017.The state-run ISNA news agency reported on November 30, 2018, that the unemployment rate of women had increased from 17% in 2005 to more than 20% in 2016. The unemployment rate for graduate students in the same period increased from 15.7 percent to 20.4 percent. 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