News Update - October 04, 2010

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Zahra Rahnavard Condemns Prisoner Exile & Speaks Out for Zia Nabavi

Jewelers continue strike in Tehran

50 Gender Equality Activists Deliver Petition to Iranian Parliament

Mounting Pressure on Political Activists: Seven Members of Freedom Movement Arrested

Appeal by Ayatollah Boroujerdi Read in Geneva to UN Council

Selected Headlines from the Tehran Bureau - October 04, 2010

Mousavi’s Senior Advisor Released from Prison

Iran insists computer worm was Western plot

Family of Imprisoned Freedom Movement Members Talk to Rooz - Friday Congregational Prayers Threaten Society

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- Mashhad U student Amir Shaybanizadeh summoned to Intel office on Tues where he was arrested.

- 1. Zia Nabavi was exiled to the far away Karoon prison in Ahvaz.

- 2. Zia Nabavi's Father: "I come from a family of simple peasants, rural workers with little to no financial resources."

- 3. Zia Nabavi's Father: " I have worked hard my entire life to earn a honorable, yet simple living for my family."

- 4. Zia Nabavi's Father: " We don't even have the financial resources to visit our son in a far away location such as Ahvaz."

- defected Iranian diplomats said that more than 80% of foreign ministry employees privately support the green movement.

- Labor activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh arrested 4 months ago, is in solitary, went on hunger strike for 5 days ago.

- Supreme Court has upheld death sentence of Habibollah Golparipour charged with ties banned Kurdish PJAK Group.

- Is he or isn't he going to Qom? According to Jahannews Khamenei is going to Qom & the Marja's can't wait to see him.

- HRA reports that HR attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh may have started a hunger strike. She was arrested a month ago.

- Ahmadinejad met with number of MP's Sunday night trying to smooth things out with the Parliament members.

- Fars article accuses Khatami, Mousavi, Karoubi & Rafsanjani & lists their supposed connections to the west.