News Update - December 23, 2010

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Halt Imminent Execution of Kurdish Student Habibollah Latifi

Selected Headlines from the Tehran Bureau - December 23, 2010

Mehdi Saharkhiz: "Mr. Prosecutor You Are Sending My Father to the Gallows!"

GOP leaders criticize Obama's Iran policy in rally for opposition group

Martin Scorsese And Various Film Festivals Show Support For Jafar Panahi And Mohammaed Rassoulov

Painful Interview with Brother of Peaceful Protester Murdered by Iranian Regime

With “Deep Concern” For Iran Rights Situation, Resolution Passes 78 For, 45 Against

Iran opposition: 'Dark future' awaits the economy

Following Twenty-fold Hike in Gasoline Prices - Iranian Truckers in Silent Strike

Iranian activists end their protest in Geneva

Increasing Human casualties in Kerman earthquakes due to lack of hospital

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- Bahaei Fataneh Nouri Ghanbari was arrested in Sari (N.IR) on Wed after being summoned by Intel.

- Court of Appeals has overturned the 2 1/2 yr sentence of student activist Ahmad Shah Rezaei giving him 1 1/2 yr.

- Khamenei's rep in the universities is asking to shorten the time for obtaining a university degree from 4 to 2 yrs.

- In the last few days 10 Kurdish activists have been arrested in Boukan & Mahabad.

- Kurdish activists arrested: Soltan, Ali, Razgar, Vali, Shouresh & Khadiyjeh Afshari.

- Kurdish activists arrested: Haymen Farman, Mansour Daryanoush & Soraya Mom Rahman.

- Kurdish activist arrested: Civil activist Ali Esmaeilnejad was arrested 12/18 at the hospital lab where he works.

- Reason for arrest, status & whereabouts of the 10 Kurdish activists arrested are still unknown.