News Update - July 23, 2010

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Genoa names square in honor of Iranian women

Student Activist Majid Tavakoli Allowed Ten Minute Prison Visit

Mohammad Mostafaei Summoned to Evin Prison

Juvenile Offender on Death Row Acquitted of Charges and Released

Wall Street Journal: Iran’s Swedish Protector

Secretary of Tahkim Vahdat Hospitalized Again for Heart Complications Caused by Prison Pressures

Lawyer Summoned to Evin Prison Courts — Aftershocks of the Stoning Story?

Selected Headlines from the Tehran Bureau - July 23, 2010

Assessing the politics behind the recently concluded bazaar strike

Iran merchants and tax collectors end standoff

Iran denies that returned citizen is nuclear scientist

Rallies for Iranian woman sentenced to death

Former and Current Revolutionary Guards Commanders Clash

Kayhan Tries to Threaten Bazaar as Government’s Next Target

Mothers of US hikers held in Iran hope to cause Tehran embarrassment

Student Activist Nasim Sarabandi Summoned to Revolutionary Court

Baha’i Student Activist Moshfegh Samandari Released in Babol

Several University of Tehran Students Summoned; Three Temporarily Expelled

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- Another prisoner hospitalized with heart problem; Hamzeh Karami Managing Dir of Jomhoriyat site is in hospital.

- Karami was out on bail for a 5 day leave from prison, suffered heart attack & is in CCU now.

- Kaviz Nozdehi of Bahai faith has been arrested in Mashhad & taken to Vakilabad prison to start serving his 2yrs sentence.

- Abdolzadeh arrested once before on bogus charges of murder of an Intel agent, but found not guilty & released.

- Loghman Abdolzadeh sentenced to death on bogus charges of drug trafficking is in Sanandaj prison, execution imminent.

- Pol prisoner Arjang Davoudi on his 2nd week of hunger strike has been moved to Gohardash medical facility.

- Iran's debt to foreign entities has reached 22.148 billion dollars, 8.437 billion of which is due to be paid this year.

- Mousavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard visited with family of imprisoned labor leader Mansour Osanlo.