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- 1 month temporary detention order has been issued for Kurdish author & Poet Behzad Kurdestani arrested Tues 8/24.
- Kurdish prisoner Rahim Rashi on his 36th day of hunger strike, barely able to walk & has lost a lot of weight.
- Chameran Uni professor Dr. Shiravi has been arrested.
- 1 M signature campaign activist Maryam Bigdeli & Fatemeh Masjedi have been sentenced to 1 yr each in prison in Qum.
- Fars news reports executions awaiting leaders of the pyramid schemes. They have not even been tried yet.
- Kalemeh denies that there was any correspondence between Mousavi & Banisadr as claimed by pro Gov press.
- Mousavi's campaign manager Dr. Ghorban Behzadiannejad has been sentenced to 5 yrs & monetary fines.
- Dr. Behzadiannejad has been in prison for over 8 months under temporary detention order.
- Political prisoner Hmed Rouhinejad was transferred from Evin to Zanjan prison last night.
- Rouhinejad suffers from progressive MS & due to lack of proper medical help is almost blind & paralyzed in 1 arm.
- Rouhinejad was tried in 1 of the show trials, his forced confessions taken under torture were used to convict him.
- Rouhinejad was initially sentenced to death but Appeals Court overturned his sentenced & gave him 10 yrs.
- Political prisoner Ahmad Karimi was transferred from Evin to Gonbad Kavous prison last night.
- Ahmad Karimi was initially sentenced to death, Appeals Court overturned his sentence & gave him 15 yrs.
- Karimi was tried in one of the show trials & like Rouhinejad was tortured to make false confession.
- Karimi & Rouhinejad were connected with the case of Ali Zamani & Arash Rahmanpour who were executed last winter.
- Karimi, Rouhinejad, Zamani & Rahmanpour were all charged with being members of a Monarchist group.
- All four were tortured & made to give false confession which was used to convict them in the show trials.
- Families & people going to Khavaran cemetery today were attacked by police & guards, number of arrests were made.
- Khavaran is the cemetery that the victims of the mass executions on the 80's are buried, mostly in mass graves.
- It's been a tradition for families to go to Khavaran on 1st Friday of in month of Shahrivar.
- Witnesses say 5 girls & 1 man were pulled out of a car, beaten & taken to vans parked on the side of the road.
- The road to Khavaran was blocked & there were hundreds of police & guards stationed around the cemetery.
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