Friday, January 29, 2010

News Update - January 29, 2010

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Security forces surround Ayatollah Montazeri’s house

Students Prepare for 22 Bahman Demonstrations

Shiva Nazar Ahari still in solitary (Farsi)

Interview transcript: Mehdi Karroubi

Another Student Activist Expelled

Abuse in Rajai Shahr Prison

Blogger interrogated for sending SMS

Silencing The Opposition: Five More Executions Pending Approval in Iran

Hardliner Cleric Commends Iran Executions, Wants More

The message of the hangman

'You Can't Punish Someone Before He Commits A Crime'

Two University of Tehran Students Arrested

Mahdieh Golrou under an intense intestinal infection in prison (Farsi)

Videos: IRGC people disrupt the typical service at Ghoba mosque (Farsi)

Principal for a girls' high school in Isfahan fired for refusing to name green students (Farsi)

Members of Committee of Human Rights Reporters Under Pressure to Make Forced Confessions

Six Years Imprisonment for Jahanbakhsh Khanjani

Members of Tahkim-Vahdat banned from all visits (Farsi)

Sudden and Unannounced Execution of Two Political Prisoners (audio interview with attorney)

White House condemns executions of Iran dissidents

Another Iranian Diplomat Steps Down

The Latest from Iran (29 January): Sideshows and Main Events

Iran Patriotism Special: Wiping the Green From The Flag

From Tweets


- 1/2 Expelled Mashhad Ferdowsi UNI student Eftekhar Barzegarian in prison more than 5 months.


- 2/2 Bail was set & produced by family of Barzegarian 4 months ago but the interrogator prevents his release.


- Arash Rahmanipour & M.R. Ali-Zamani executed Thurs AM were promised light sentences if they cooperate.


- Sat Jan 30, 16 Ashura protesters will go on trial in an open court in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court.


- Tehran prosecutor said 37 indictments for Ashura protesters have been sent to court. Five are charged with Moharebeh.


- Warning: Gerdab is Sepah site & it is a phishing site.


- Abdolah Saddoughi arrested by Intel in Tabriz for printing posters in support of the Terakhtor football team.


- In moving Momeni & Tabatabai, the prison officials have confiscated their personal items.


- Momeni & Tabatabai are now in cold cells in Evin without proper clothing or cover.


- Participation Front member Shabedin Tabatabai is being moved back & forth between Evin 209(bad) & 240(worst).


- Advar Member Abdolah Momeni has been moved back to Evin 209. He has been sentenced to 8 years.


- 1/5 Committee of Human Rights Reporters adamantly denies Intel Min charges of affiliation with MKO.


- 2/5 CHRR says the Intel Min is well aware of the fact that this Committee has no political affiliation.


- 3/5 CHRR is a human rights defender & a civic organization with no political affiliation in or outside Iran.


- 4/5 CHRR says their imprisoned members are under pressure to make false confession of having MKO ties.


- 5/5 Currently 7 members of CHRR are in prison. Two members have been told they will be charged with Moharebeh.


- Fajr film festival tickets being given away for free due to lack of audience.


- Open letter from Participation Front is asking Larijani to answer all the questionable facts in the case of 2 executed.


- Number of the defense attorneys say they have not been given their client's case file for review.


- The defendants who were allowed attorney visit have said they are under pressure to give false confession.


- Sat Jan 29, 16 Ashura protesters will go on trial in an open court in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court.


- 1. Javan online, close to the Ahmadinejad camp, is feigning shock at calls for violence on the Internet.


- 2. Javan online says that the opposition is teaching urban warfare and bomb-making on the Internet.


- 3. Problem: the sites in question are highly suspect and at least 1 is probably run by Intelligence Ministry.


- 4. One of the most vocal proponents of violence on the Internet is Takavaran Tondar.


- 5. Takavaran Tondar is a splinter group of the Monarchist Society and probably was created by the Int Min.


- 6. It is used as an 'agent provocateur' and justification for the crackdown against the Monarchist bogeyman.


- 7. It sprung out of nowhere after the genuine Monarchist Society's head was captured on the Iran-Turkey border.


- 8. Ever since, it has encouraged violence, confirmed the membership of people like Ali Zamani who was


- 9....taken responsibility for the assassination of professor Massoud Alimohammadi...


- end of piece on calls for violence on the Internet.


- Oromiyeh FP Imam said bodies of the executed should be put on display.


Those sentenced to death


1- Kurdish political prisoner Zaynab Jalalian(F) sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Kermanshah prison.


2- Kurdish political prisoner Shirko Moarefi sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Saghez prison.


3- Kurdish political prisoner Habibolah Latifi sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Sanandaj prison.


4- Kurdish political prisoner Samy Houseini sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


5- Kurdish political prisoner Jamal Mohamadi sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


6- Kurdish political prisoner Rostam Arkiya sentenced to death by hanging.


7- Kurdish political prisoner Rashid Akhondi sentenced to death by hanging.


8- Kurdish political prisoner Housein Khazri sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


9- Kurdish political prisoner Farzad Kamangar sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Evin.


10- Kurdish political prisoner Ali Haydarian sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Evin.


11- Kurdish political prisoner Farhad Vakili sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Evin.


12- Kurdish political prisoner Mostafa Salimi sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Saghez prison.


13- Kurdish political prisoner Anvar Rostami sentenced to death by hanging.


14- Kurdish political prisoner Iraj Mohamadi sentenced to death by firing squad, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


15- Kurdish political prisoner Mohamad Amin Agoshi sentenced to death by firing squad, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


16- Kurdish political prisoner Ahmad Poladkhani sentenced to death by firing squad, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


17- Kurdish political prisoner Hassan Talei sentenced to death by hanging.


18- Kurdish political prisoner Shirin Alamhoui(F) sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Evin.


19- Kurdish political prisoner Aziz Mohamadzadeh sentenced to death by hanging, currently Saghez prison.


20- Kurdish political prisnr Mohamad Amin Abdolahi sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


21- Kurdish political prisoner Ghader Mohamadzadeh sentenced to death by hanging, currently in Oromiyeh prison.


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