News Update - August 03, 2010

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Selected Headlines from the Tehran Bureau - August 04, 2010

Protesting One Year of Detention for American Hikers

Social Activist Ahmad Bab: Tortured to Confess to Espionage

Brazil asylum unlikely in adultery case

Iran Analysis: Saharkhiz & Abtahi Dent the Government’s “Fear Factor”

Iran to reject Brazil's offer on convicted woman

Majid Tavakoli: A dictator is always afraid of brave disobedient people (Farsi)

Iranian Families Again Refused Visit With Prisoners

Iran's Opposition Leader Mousavi: Religious tyranny is the worst kind of tyranny

Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran's supreme leader

Dangerous levels of nitrate in Tehran's drinking water reported

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- Political prisoner Hamzeh Karami has written a letter to Khamenei detailing the tortures he endured in prison.

- Hamzeh Karami: They put my head in a dirty toilet 20 times to make me give false confession.

- Hamzeh Karami: When I screamed "Ya Allah" they said "we are your God today & will do to you whatever we want".

- Hamzeh Karami is now hospitalized with multitude of health problems as a result of all the tortures he endured.

- 17 prisoners in Evin going on their 10th day of hunger strike to protest their condition & tortures in Evin.

- Lesser known Grn prisoner: Gholamhousein Arshi 30, 1 of the 17 on hunger strike, arrested by photo ID after Ashura.

- Five of the 17 pol prisoners on hunger strike were treated at Evin Med facility & moved back into solitary.

- Currently there are 6 political prisoners in imminent danger of execution for MKO connection.

- 3 Gonabadi Sufis were arrested Tuesday by Intel agents in Lourestan Province.

- Lesser known Greens: Student activist Ali Tarekh was tried today, sentenced to 12 months & sent to Shiraz Adelabad prison.

- Photojournalist Amir Sadeghi sentenced to monetary fines for publishing Ashura protest pics.

- Mousavi & his wife met today w a group of journalists & families of political prisoners. More details coming soon

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