Iran: thoughts

Houshiar Ahmadi, Bahman Saiedi, Jahanakhsh Ahmadi, Sirvan Mahmoudi, and Sivan Rahimi, are put on trial, because of combat against religion in Sanandaj.
They can be convicted to death on this accusations.
They were arrested in winter 2008 and put in court July 26.
source: hra-iran.net


Sajjad Khaksary, former reporter of "'Pen of the Teacher" is sentenced to one year in prison.
March 2009 he was arrested at a teachersgathering.
Currently he is being held in the Evin Prison .
source: hra-iran.net


July 27 is Saman Valadbeigi arrested in Kermanshah and brought to an unknown location.
He had attended and spoken at a memorial service for Kianoosh Asa, a student who had lost his life in the recent unrest.
Plain clothed agents arrested him when he came home and took all cell phones, phone books and computers belonging to him and his family.
source: hra-iran.net


Despite that the authorities refused permission, people will hold a mournceremony for the victims of the postelection unrest in Iran.
There will be gathering at the graveside of Neda-Agha Soltan at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in Tehran. She was one of 20 victims, who died June 20 and became symbol of the protests.
Shia Muslims traditionally mark 40 days after a death in a ceremony called the Arbayeen.
Many people are expected to join and also Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi will be present.
source: BBC

Tuesday 140 detainees were released.
Wednesday authorities announced that more detainees arrested in the post-election crackdown would soon be freed but also that 20 protesters charged with serious crimes would be put on trial, starting this weekend.
Saeed Shariati and Shayesteh Amiri,two prominent reformists were arrested.
According to PressTV an underground network providing foreign media outlets with photos and footage of the post-election unrest has been identified and its members arrested.
The report said that the network was made up of “pro-reform extremists” and that at least two members had confessed to providing images of the unrest to Western news media in an effort to “stage a regime change” in Iran.
Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, published Wednesday a statement on his website
saying the government’s closing of one notorious detention center was not enough.
Referring to the fall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979, he wrote “Was the shah able to resist the protests by jailing, torturing, extracting confessions and lying?".
source: nytimes.com



Green brief no. 42






In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl