News Update - October 14, 2010

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Student activist sentenced to 4 years in prison

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Student Prisoner Jailed for a Decade: “Execution is a legal crime”

Karroubi In NYer: We Don’t Expect Anything From U.S.

The Arrest of Mehdi Khazali: Continued Pressure On Critics

Fruitless Efforts To Reduce Shahidi’s $600,000 Bail

State pressures stepped up on Iran's Mourning Mothers

Rafsanjani calls for freedom of expression

Ahmadinejad Tells Activists He's anti-Capitalist

Hossein Sarshoomi in Prison Limbo for 100 days

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- Leftist student activist Housein Sarshomi, in Esfahan Intel detention 100 days, still in limbo status & banned from visits.

- Women's rights activist Parisa Kakaei will go on trial Sat Oct 16. She is charged with same bogus charges as others.

- Pol activist Hassan Farzin was arrested on Tues in Mashhad, his status & whereabouts are unknown.

- Journalist Mahsa Amrabadi's trial started today. She is charged with the same bogus charges as everyone else.

- Mahsa Amrabadi arrested along with her husband Masoud Bastani last summer, was released on bail after 72 days.

- Mahsa's husband Masoud Bastani is currently in Rejaei Shahr serving a 6 yr sentence.

- Date for Khamenei's trip to Qom has been announced. He will visit Qom on October 19 & will possibly stay 1 week.

- 1/7) Laleh Park Mothers (Mourning mothers) deny the recent regime accusations of having MKO ties.

- 2/7) LP Mothers: LP Mothers members, Akram Neghabi & her daughter were arrested Oct 9 in a raid of their home.

- 3/7) LP Mothers: Akram Neghabi's son, student Saeid Zainali arrested 18 Tir 11 yrs ago & has vanished since.

- 4/7) LP Mothers: Former pol prisoner Hesam Tarmasi's mother & sister were arrested in a raid of their home Oct.

- 5/7) LP Mothers: In the raid of homes of these LP members, agents confiscated passports, computers & other items.

- 6/7) LP Mothers: Neghabi & Tarmasi's daughters were preparing to leave the country legally for further education.

- 7/7) LP Mothers: Neghabi & Tarmasi's daughters have no prior political or civil activism.

- By order of Intel interrogators, student activist Shabnam Madadzadeh has been banned from visits & phone calls.

- Shabnam Madadzadeh is being punished for voicing support for attorneys Nasrin Sotoudeh & Mohamad Oliaeifar.

- Status of high school student & blogger Navid Mohebi arrested in Sari (N.IR) 25 dys ago still unknown.

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