Friday, January 22, 2010

News Update - January 22, 2010

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Tehran Police: 40 more Ashura protesters arrested (Farsi)

4 young men were arrested at Neda's grave site (Farsi)

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Human rights activist banned from teaching

From Tweets


- Mesbah-Yazdi: people have different degrees of intelligence, and Supreme Leader is the most intelligent person in Iran. ((...Okay, I usually try not to behave like this on this blog but...ROFLMAO!!!)


- Tehran UNI student Sadegh Houseini arrested last week. Reason for arrest; Internet activities.


- Number of Sunnis in Mahabad(Kurdestan province) have been arrested by Intel & their homes searched.


- Currently there are 43 journalists held as political prisoners in Iran prisons.


- Missing & kidnapped by government agents; Sorna Hashemi & Alireza Firoozi have been missing for 3 weeks.


- Advar-e-Tahkim Vahdat(the Alumni Association) is under pressure by the regime to cease activities & dissolve.


- Ahmadinejad & Larijani have made comments recently re HR violations are being used as excuse to change IR Gov.


- Students Sorna Hashemi & Alireza Firoozi arrested 3 weeks ago, authorities refuse to give info to family.


- 1- Women's rights activists currently in prison: Mansoreh Shojai, Mahin Fahimi, Shiva Nazarahari.


- 2- Women's rights activists currently in prison: Parisa Kahai, Zohreh Tonekabani, Alliyeh Eghdamdost.


- 3- Women's rights activists currently in prison: Bahareh Hedayat, Mahdiyeh Golro, Shabnam Madadzadeh.


- 4- Women's rights activists currently in prison: Shabnam Madadzadeh & Maryam Zia.


- With the latest death sentence for Mohamadzadeh, there are now 21 Kurdish activists on death row.


- Kurdish activist Aziz Mohamadzadeh has been sentenced to death, charged with anti-national sec acts & Moharebeh.


- Ahvaz Chameron UNI student Sadjad Pirfalak arrested Jan 13, his status & whereabouts still unknown.


- Jan 13 number of Ahvaz Chameron UNI students were summoned & number of them were arrested.


- Ward 240 in Evin has very harsh conditions & prisoners are kept in isolation.


- The prisoners that hv bn moved to ward 240 were in ward 350(general population).


- Masoud Bastani, Hedayat Aghai, Reza Norbakhsh & Jahanbakhsh Khanjani have been moved to ward 240.


- Advar member Abdollah Momeni has been moved to ward 240 in Evin again. He has been sentenced to 8 years.


- 1-AmirKabir: Judges have been instructed by Intel Ministry to charge students with cooperation with MKO.


- 2-AmirKabir: Intel instruction mostly for expelled students who are on the "expelled students defense group".


- 3-AmirKabir: Zia Nabavi told friends judge told him he is under instruction from Intel to charge him with MKO connection.


- 4-AmirKabir: Zia Nabavi said this is the biggest insult to his ideals & if he gets convicted he won't remain silent.


- 5-Reports have been Mahdiyeh Golro anther member of Expelled Students Defense being pressured to confess to MKO.


- 6-Another expelled student Majid Dori received 11 years recently charged with MKO connection. He & friends explicitly deny.


- Sorna Hashemi & Alireza Firoozi were arrested almost 3 weeks ago. Status & whereabouts still unknown.


- The tweet being RT on Zanjan UNI students. Those students have been missing for almost 3 weeks now not 1 week.


- Wife of Kurdish political prisoner Ehsan Houshmand has been arrested. Nahid Kohshekaf was arrested on.


- Disciplinary actions have been issued for 18 Mashhad Azad UNI students.


- 18 more indictments have been sent to the Rev Court for Ashura protesters. All 18 are currently in prison.


- 1. Two Zanjan University student activists have disappeared since the beginning of the week.


- 2. Alireza Firouzi and Sourna Hashemi were traveling from Tehran to Tabriz when they vanished.


- 3. Following their disappearance, their family and political activists began receiving e-mails from their accounts.


- 4. The e-mails sought information about political developments, according to Firouzi and Hashemi's families.


- Recommendation: When using Google reader or gmail put an 's' after 'http' (use https) to protect yourself.


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