Thursday, December 16, 2010

News Update - December 16, 2010

Live-blog: Ashura in Iran – December 16, 2010

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This year on Ashura, Iran's opposition Green Movement stays below ground


Political Prisoners’ Families Detained, Interrogated, And Verbally Abused


Ashura News Roundup


Iranian woman 'was sold for sex to fund husband's drug addiction'


Update on Foreign Prisoners in Vakilabad Prison


Ebrahim Yazdi’s Deteriorating Health in Evin Prison


Iranian Religious Scholar Jailed On Propaganda, Insult Charges


Reformist Cleric Hojjatoleslam Soleimani Detained


Journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin Sentenced to 16 Months in Prison


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- Rah-e-Sabz CORRECTS story on Nourizad website - It is Nourizad wife in hospital.


- Tehran police denies that anyone been arrested with a bomb on Salsabil street as some had reported.


- Ayat Bayat Zanjani called Nasrin Sotoudeh's husband asking him to give Nasrin his message "End your hunger strike".


- Sun &Tues Nourizad's wife was in Qom meeting with 6 Marja Ayatollahs' seeking their help re her husband.


- Intel Ministry has announced they have arrested 8 more suspects in connection with Chabahar suicide bombing.


- HR activist & uni professor, attorney Dr Vahid Ahmad Fakhredin has been sentenced to 3 yrs suspended sentence.


- Hunger strikers Arash Sadeghi & Nasrin Sotoudeh are reported to be in poor health in Evin.


- Mohamad Nourizad's family & Tajzadeh's wife who were arrested earlier today have been released from Evin.


- HRANA reports Sohrab Arabi's mother was arrested & interrogated before let go.

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