News Update - July 05, 2010

Petitions:

URGENT ACTION: Final Retribution Notice Sent to the Family of Mohammad Reza Haddadi

Document - Iran: Further information: Juvenile offender's execution scheduled: Mohammad Reza Haddadi

News Links

Telegraph: Iran puts forward ‘evidence’ that nuclear scientist was abducted by CIA

Human Rights Activists Have Forgotten About My Dad

The Shahram Amiri Scenario

Baluchistan Executions in Exclusive Interview With Abdulsattar Doshoki - Islamic Republic Policies Are the Source of All Violence

Iranian Authorities Accused Of Covering Up Kahrizak Atrocities

'Larijani, You No Longer Represent Us'

Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Hospitalized after Release

Sara Mahboubi’s First Prison Visit with Family

A Year Has Passed Since Isa Saharkhiz’s Arrest and Temporary Detention

Artin Ghazanfari Sentenced to One Year in Prison

Student Activist Mehrdad Bozorg Sentenced to 1 Year Suspended Imprisonment

CNN spoke with the son of the Iranian woman who sentenced to stoning in Iran

RAHANA Interviews Brother of Victim in the Case of Mohammad Reza Haddadi

Iranian Youth Sentenced To Death Accused Of Homosexual Relations

IRAN: Simmering tensions in lead-up to student protest anniversary

Ponytail for men gets the chop in Iran

Twitter

- Science Minister Kamran Daneshjou: We will not allow student groups that promote secularism to exist.

- Lawyer Mohamad Mostafi says he has not officially been notified of Mohamad Haddadi's execution date.

- The Family of Mohamad Haddadi has received notification from court to go & visit him for the last time.

- Mother & son were executed Mon AM in Orumiyeh convicted of drug trafficking.

- Executions scheduled: Mohamad Haddadi to be executed on 7/7, 5 people are in solitary in Orumiyeh in prep for execution.

- News about Ebrahim Hamidi- conflicting news. Lawyer says case against Hamidi is all false, he's not gay.

- ILNA- 500 workers at Abadan oil refinery stopped work & gathered over unpaid wages.

- Karoubi camp activist Housein Kia Rosta has been sentenced to 1 yr suspended for 5 yrs.

- There is news circulating that execution of mohammad Reza Haddadi is canceled. news is fake & being spread by regime people.

- 1 publication has lost it's public license & 3 received warning notices for printing what the regime doesn't like.

- In a letter pol prisoner Zia Nabavi has denied news of his illness in prison saying he is in complete health.

- In the fight between Ahmadi & Azad Uni (Rafsanjani), SL Khamenei ruled in favor of Azad U & against Ahmadi.

- About 120 Ghazvin's Naznaj Mill worker picketed in front of the Parliament today protesting unpaid wages.