News Update - August 08, 2010

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Stoning, Rape and Execution of Women is Bad Gender Policy; It is Time to Remove the Islamic Republic from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (incl. sample letters and addresses)

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Selected Headlines from the Tehran Bureau - August 08, 2010

Each of the Bahaii leaders is sentences to 20 years by Iran (Farsi)

Iranian lawyer in stoning case flees to Norway

Not One More Execution: Protest in Sydney Australia

Not One More Execution! Protest in Union Square, New York City, NY

Needles in a Haystack

Prison Time Totals 140 Years for Seven Administrators of the Baha’i Community

Amirkabir University Students to Launch Hunger Strike

Isa Saharkhiz Experiences Paresis in Prison

Iranian Political Prisoners Continue Hunger Strike Over Basic Rights

Principlists Admit - Khamenei Has Lost Legitimacy

Iranian reformists press charges against Revolutionary Guards

Jailed Iranian Photojournalist Released After Hunger Strike

Wife Of Lawyer In Stoning Case Released

Iranian short film to open Venice Film Festival in the presence of Jafar Panahi

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- Majid Tavakoli's brother: They have taken written guarantee from prisoners families not to protest in front of Judiciary.

- Authorities have threatened families of hunger strikers with arrested if they protest in front of the Judiciary Bldg.

- Families of hunger strikers keep receiving phone calls from agents threatening them.

- Father of Ali Parviz, one of the hunger strikers has been detained today.

- Reports are that Babak Bordbar 1 of the hunger strikers who was released yesterday has been summoned to Evin Court.

- 2 weeks on hunger strike has been very hard on the 16, they have lost a lot of weight & a number of them treated at Evin Med facility.

- Long time political prisoner Reza Malek 74, has been on a hunger strike for last 5 days including no liquids.

- Reza Malek was moved into solitary 20 days ago. His prison term was finished last year but Intel prevented his release.

- All of the seven reformists filling the lawsuit, were imprisoned, tried & sentenced to prison terms.

- 1/2) The 7 filing the lawsuit are: Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh,

- 2/2) Fayzolah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Safai Farahani, Mohsen Mirdamadi & Behzad Nabavi.

- The father of 1 of the 16 on hunger strike was arrested today as he tried to deliver a letter to the judiciary office.

- Ali Parviz's father was arrested this morning. Parviz is one of the 16 on hunger strike in Evin.

- Mourning mothers, people from the women's movement & student activists gathered in front of Evin Sat night.

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