News Update - February 23, 2010

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From Tweets

- Fayzollah Arab-Sorkhi member of the Islamic Mojahedin(not MKO) has been sentenced to 6 years. He is appealing.

- Layla Tavasoli & Mohamad Naeimpour members of the Freedom Movement of Iran have been released from Evin.

- Alireza Beheshti: All the news of Mousavi having heart attack are false & he is in complete health.

- Parvin Javadzadeh(F) arrested on Ashura at her home is under pressure by Intel interrogators to confess.

- Shiraz UNI student activist Kazem Rezaei has been released on bail.

- During Tehran UNI attack dorm rooms were ransacked, computers broken, walls & stairways spattered with blood.

- 8 months after attack on Tehran UNI, no one has bn held accountable. Not the people who ordered nor the attackers.

- Regime's ridiculous claim: 600,000 Basij sites will be set up in Tehran.

- Momeni was severely tortured by Sepah at Evin prison & had no family contact for first 100+ days of detention.

- Journalist Kayvan Samimi has been moved back to Evin 240 solitary for complaining about conditions in ward 350.

- Moving Samimi back into solitary without judge's order is another illegal act by Evin authorities.

- After 53 days in prison Mousavi legal advisor Mohamad Reza Razaghi has been released.

- Mousavi campaign activist Asghar Khandan arrested 2 weeks ago, had no contact with family during detention has been released.

- Oil Ministry ex official Ardeshir Fathinejad arrested during post-election arrests has been released on bail.

- Sina Golchin did not have an attorney during his trial & was forced to give false confession implicating himself.

- Sina Golchin arrested at home on Ashura has been sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Photos

Few pics of the attack on Tehran UNI in June

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