News Update - June 23, 2010

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IRAN: University at heart of power struggle between Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani

Names of those arrested during the month of Khordad 1389 (Farsi)

Emadeddin Baghi Released on Bail, Trial in 12 Days

Summonses, Notices, and Dismissals at Qazvin International University

Mohammad Javad Larijani Misrepresents Human Rights Council Session on National Television

Two Protesters Arrested Outside Iranian Embassy in Beijing

Mousavi & Karroubi met today, full coverage here (Farsi)

Iran university reform sparks row in Ahmadinejad camp

Iran’s Democratic Manifesto

Student activist detained in Iran: Behzad Bagheri Kahkesh

Larijani: Administration Supporters Are Loudmouths and Vicious

Rafsanjani and Khamenei’s Relations in Decline

Photojournalist Majid Saeedi Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison

A Citizen Executed in the City of Zahedan

Abdollah Yousefzadegan Transferred out of Solitary after 95 days

Tehran Prosecutor Met with Prisoners’ Families

Prison Officials Ignore Mohammad Nourizad’s Poor Physical Condition

From Twitter

- Police chief said Ahmadinejad remarks criticizing Hijab crackdown was because the TV anchor asked him the wrong question.

- Transferring of political prisoners to Ward 350 is apparently for putting more pressure on them.

- Mousavi's adviser Ghorbanali Behzadiannejad has been transferred to ward 350.

- Second trial session of Ali Malihi public relations Dir of Advar Tahkim was held today.

- Death sentence of Ali Mahin Tourabi sentenced to death for a crime committed when a minor has been overturned.

- Mahin Tourabi spent 8yrs in RejaiShahr prison. His sentence was changed to monetary retribution in lieu of execution.

- Houshmand has been detained by Intel in Sanandaj for a month & has been banned from family contact.

- Temporary detention order for Kurdish activist Mokhtar Houshmand has been extended.

- Sharif Uni student paper Sadaf has been banned.

- Trial of Blogger Housein Drakhshan started today. He was arrested couple of yrs ago.

- Bureau of Prisons Chief: Visitations for political prisoners must be approved by the Justice Dept.

- Bureau of prisons chief: Ghezel Hesar is overcrowded & is occupied 300 times it's capacity.

- 325 People Arrested in the Month of Khordad.

- 2 more prisoners released today: Hossein Marashi & Akbar Ajdadi.

- Emadeddin Baghi released on bail, Amnesty Int'l reports.

- Zahedan Prosecutor announced 2 death sentences have been issued & 6 more have been requested.

- Bureau of prisons chief said none of the accused in Kahrizak case are employees of the Bureau.

- Bureau of prisons chief denied harsh treatment of prisoners saying if any, it occurs during interrogations.

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