Iran: smash

Yesterday thousands of people commemorated the tenth anniversary of the student-led protests of 9 July 1999 in Tehran.Dozens of people were arrested.
An eyewitness told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he saw three police vans filled with protestors being driven away.
Plain clothes Intelligence agents combed the crowds to identify activists and detain them.
Kaveh Mozaffari, a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and a women’s rights activist was arrested although he was not participating in protests.
He accompanied his mother- in- law to Mostafa Khomeini Hospital when he was arrested.
Basij militia and plain clothed agents continued to be a major part of government forces attacking protestors.
The basij were equipped with batons, eyewitnesses reported the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that many old people were savagedly beaten.
source: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

A youtube video from a man, beaten by Basij in yesterdays protest.



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Newspaper Etemaad Melli wrote that leading reformist figures asked authorities to put an end to the detention of opposition activists and release the detainees.
The call was made by Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi as well as former president Mohammad Khatami.
They criticized the “security atmosphere” dominating the country following the election.
source: irannewsdaily.com

Iranian writer of children's stories, Mehdi Azar-Yazdi has died at the age of 87.
He is best known for his Good Stories for Good Children, which won the UNESCO Prize in 1966 and was announced as the best book of the year in 1967.
The book is in eight volumes, and offers children great works of Persian literature, including Sa'adi's Gulistan, Mowlavi's Masnavi, Sa'doddin Varavini's Marzban-Nameh, and Zahiri-Samarqandi's Sinbadnameh, and quranstories.
source: PressTV Photo: payvand.com

Green Brief no. 23




In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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