News Update - September 20, 2010

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Selected Headlines from the Tehran Bureau - September 20, 2010

Kalemeh reports on the loud chants of AK-O-AK in Tehran last night (Farsi)

Husband and Lawyer of Jailed Human Rights Lawyer Threatened with Arrest

Journalist Abolfazl Abedini Nasr Severely Beaten Up

Green Movement's warning to regime over safety of opposition leaders

Rajai Shahr Prison | Arzhang Davoudi Writes Letter to the Freedom-Seeking People of the World

Three Baluch Citizens in Danger of Execution

Khatami: The radical islamists will even stand against Khamenei eventually (Farsi)

Iran's Ahmadinejad ahead in political in-fighting

New Threats from Military Leaders - Revolutionary Guards Prepare for Aerial Attacks

Ahmadinejad arrives in New York, denies existence of oppressive policies in Iran

Ali Larijani: Majlis is on top to prevent repetition of tyranny

Arriving Home, U.S. Hiker Rejects Iran Charge

AP Interview: Ahmadinejad says future is Iran's

Kurdish Citizen Sentenced to Prison

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- Since August 23, 2010, 33 civil & political activists have been arrested in Iran.

- Hamedan Bu-Ali Uni Kurdish student Farshad Doostipour has been sentenced to 2 yrs on bunch of bogus charges.

- 1- After 8 months in Evin, Ehsan Abdeh is still in limbo status. He has not been tried yet.

- 2- Ehsan Abdeh a post graduate student at Durham U in England was arrested upon arrival at Tehran airport last summer.

- 3- Abdeh's father an economist & a critic of Ahmadinejad's economical policies.

- 4- Ehsan Abdeh was in solitary 50 days, went on hunger strike twice in ward 209 & is in ward 350 now.

- Mousavi's office manager Hamid Mohseni has called family 8 days after being arrested.

- Majid Tavakoli's Lawyer Mohamad Ali Dadkhah says he has not received a ruling from Court of appeals re Majid's sent yet.

- Dadkhah says until he receives the official ruling he will not confirm or deny the reports of Majid's sentencing.

- 1- Kurdish Perspective reports Naser Alizadeh arrested last Mon has lost his life under severe torture.

- 2- Alizadeh was arrested along with others while hiking last Mon. His body was turned over to his family on Fri.

- 3- Kurdish Perspective reports that Alizadeh's family have been threatened not to hold memorial services for him.

- 3 men were hanged in Ahvaz Kazeron prison this AM. 2 were convicted of drug trafficking & 1 convicted of murder.

- Pol prisoner Zahra Bahrami with dual Iranian/Dutch citizenship is under pressure to make false confession of drug trafficking.

- In her last trial session, Zahra Bahrami did not have her lawyer present.

- Zahra Bahrami's lawyer Nasrin Sotodeh is imprisoned herself.

- Zahra Bahrami was in Iran visiting her two children when she was arrested on Ashura.

- Bahrami under pressure & torture made false confessions which were televised, essentially implicating herself.

- Member of Expediency Council Majid Ansari lashes out at Ahmadinejad over his recent statements re the Parliament

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- According to a video that surfaced today in YouTube, four year old boy (possibly named Matin Ebrahimi) was killed by regime forces in Iran Kurdistan.

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