Monday, April 5, 2010

News Update - April 05, 2010

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Petition: Free Mr. Abolfazl Abedini Nasr


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Drying of Lake Urmia Sparks Large Protest

Special Court To Be Established for Iranians Abroad

Tomb of Opposition Leader's Father Desecrated

Textile Factory Worker Wages Unpaid for Seven Months

With increasing green graffiti some city workers are forced to carry white spray paint (Farsi)

Mehdi Karroubi Demands Release of Post-Election Prisoners

Latest News from Journalists and Political Prisoners Prosecutor Lied; Marashi Arrested

Shirin Ebadi in Interview with Rooz: Government That Lacks Popular Base Resorts to Violence

3 More Detained Christians Freed after 80 Days of Captivity

Appeals Court Upholds Jail Term for Student Activist Kaveh Rezaee

Reformist Cleric Ahmadreza Ahmadpour Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison

Ahmad Ghabel’s Case Sent to Revolutionary Court

Mitra Aali Makes First Phone Call from Evin

3 Kurdish Men Handed Jail Terms

From Twitter

- 1/9) The Green Voice of Freedom site has issued a list of the "unknown" prisoners & their sentences

- 2/9) The GVF site says they can not reveal the source of their info & feel the list is pretty accurate

- 3/9) Most on the list were arrested during street protests. Their names & sentences are as follows:

- 4/9) Nasir Assadi 2 yrs, Iman Azarian 6 yrs, Ali Arshadi 2 yrs, Shahab Akbarzadeh 1 yr, Hassan Etemadi 1 yr

- 5/9) Mohamad Javad Reshad 2 yrs, Mohamad Ali Robati 2 yrs, Sasan Satarzadeh 1 yr, Abozar Mehrani 2 yrs

- 6/9) Mehrdad Sepahvand 2 yrs, Soheil Mohamadi Nasirmahleh 4 yrs, Amin Keshavars 1 yr, Ali Parviz 1 yr

- 7/9) Hesam Tarmasi 1 yr, Sayed Navid Kamran 1 yr, Ahmad Bahrami 6months, Ardeshir Fazri 2 yrs

- 8/9) Abtin Ghafari 3 yrs, Hamid Piroozfam 1 yr , Ali Ghasemi 1 yr, Saman Nouranian 3 yrs, Saied Soudmeli 1 yr

- 9/9) Majid Tayari, Poya Ghorbani, Ayoub Ghanvarpourian & Abolfazl Ghasemi are in Evin 350 awaiting trials.

- Pro Ahmadinejad claims due to reduction in his UNI salary, Ahmadinejad has been borrowing money to live on.

- Pro Ahmadinejad site claims Ahmadinejad has been living only on his income from UNI job & has not received presidential salary.

- 1) Akbar Ajdadi is one of the no-name prisoners arrested during street protest. He has been in Evin for 9 months.

- 2) Ajdadi a sales clerk & his financially challenged family can not afford the $200,00 bail set for him.

- 3) Ajdadi has already been sentenced to 3 yrs & his $200,000 bail is for a short leave from prison.

- Mohamad Davari is under pressure & torture to give on camera confession & deny Karoubi's rape charges.

- Hamshahri, Khorasan & Jomhouri Islami newspapers have received warning for publishing what regime doesn't like.

- Temporary detention order for teacher Abbas Kakaie has been extended for 6 months. He is denying all his charges.

- Davari was moved to Evin 350 after months of pressure in solitary but moved back to solitary after he complained.

- After Karoubi revealations his newspaper, the office of Etemad-Meli Party & his personal office were closed.

- Sahamnews was shut down for some time, however it has been back for a while now but not much news updates.

- Masoud Lavasani was released after 6 months.

- Seyed Hossein Ronaghi (student & blogger) has been in a bad condition at ward A2 of IRGC since Dec 13.

- Ronaghi's family in Malekan, E. Azarbaijan have been under pressure from min. of intel to avoid interviews.

- Ayatollah Khatami's widow is staging a sit-in protest at the grave site of her husband until vandals are arrested.


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