News Update - June 03, 2010

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Iran Baha'i Leaders Scheduled In Court On Election Anniversary

Iran: Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh sentenced to 2 ½ years in jail and 30 lashes for ‘acts against national security'

Gender segregated is an attempt to control the universities in Iran (Farsi)

Mottaki in European Parliament; Green protesters outraged

Leader’s Pardon of 81 Political Prisoners Show Arbitrary Nature of Prosecutions

Lawyers of Imprisoned Teacher’s Union Member File Complaint with Tehran Prosecutor

The Crackdown Before the Crackdown

One Year Later

Nobel winners join call for release of US hikers in

Opposition in Iran: New Confrontations Ahead

Fars News Fabricates Letter By Student Activist

Kamran Asa, brother of martyr Kianoosh, has been re-arrested (Farsi)

Protesters Urge Australia Not to Deport Iranian Cleric

Khamenei Lashes Out Against the West Ahead of Iranian Anniversaries

More Iranian Opposition Groups Seek to Rally on June 12

Iran regime being ruined: opposition leader Karroubi

The Cleric Who Changed: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, was not always deeply conservative

Iranian minister calls for political cleansing of universities

Majid Dorri Protests his Imprisonment in Exile Sentence

Beheshti University Student Rajabali Dashab Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Several Detained Students Released

From Twitter

- Saudi newspaper Al-Jazirah reports that Iran former nuclear negotiator, Hossein Musavian, seeks asylum in US.

- Payam Fanian 1 of the Bahais arrested Ashura has been released on bail. He's been sentenced to 1 yr by Appeals Court.

- Abedini has already been tried in Ahvaz, found guilty of bunch of BS charges & sentenced to 11 1/2 yrs.

- Abedini has been beaten up, is kept among dangerous criminals, been told they are sending him Tehran for 2nd trial.

- The judge in Shabnam's case told her, in Court, "You are being punished for your family connection to MKO".

- Farzad Madadzadeh has been sentenced to 5 yrs in Rejaei Shahr prison. He is Shabnam's brother.

- Deputy Chair of Advar-Tahkim, Shabnam Madadzadeh(F) has been sentenced to 5 yrs in Rejaei Shahr prison.

- Azad Uni student Milad Fadaei has been released on bail after 6 months in prison. He is sentenced to 1 yr.

- Khajeh Nasir U student soheil Mohamadi has bn released on bail after 7 months in prison. He is sentenced to 3 yrs.

- Amir Kabi U student Nima Latif Tojar was released on bail. He was in prison 158 days under pressure & is sentenced to 1yr.

- Members of Women's Movement met with Mousavi & his wife today. Details will be published soon.

- Behrooz Javid Tehrani was student activist during Tehran Uni uprising 11yrs ago & only 1 living left in prison.

- Beheshti Uni student Rajabali Dashab was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison by the Appeals Court.

- Political prisoner Hamid Haeri has been sentenced to 15 yrs to be served in Karaj Gohardasht prison.

- Haeri is in poor health, had suffered 2 heart attacks before, walks with a cane, had hip injury due an accident before arrest.

- Kamran Assa brother of Kianoush Assa has been arrested in Kermanshah. This is the 2nd time they are arresting him.

- Good News: HR activist Laleh Hassanpour has been released on bail.

- Union leader Mansour Osanlo has been in Sepah solitary last 3 days under new pressure to accept new charges.

- Tarlani allowed a 15min family visit 1 a month. All his ID's& documents confiscated ¬ returned preventing follow up of case.

- Amjad Kourdnejad & Jamal Rahmati Tehran U Kurdish students have been missing for 2dys & feared arrested by Intel.

- Student activist Hassan Tarlani 23, in Kerman prison is being pressured & interrogated long hours everyday.

- Tarlani is among dangerous criminals, they put prisoners sentenced to death in his cell before they are executed.

- Tarlani is sentenced to 10 yrs mostly based on his family history. His grandfather was executed in the 80's.

- Farsnews reports Karoubi was attacked by crowd at Khomeini's Shrine, pic they are using is from last year Book Fair.

- Farsnews says people were chanting anti-Karoubi slogans as he left the Shrine. No other news outlet reporting this yet.

- Khamenei will preside over this Fridays prayer services & Ahmadinejad will be the speaker before the services.

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Mashhad Bahai cemetery was vandalized

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