Iran: pressure

ILNA reports, that Alireza Hosseini-Beheshti top-aide of Mousavi,who was arrested last week, Sunday is released.
No explanation for the release was given, but anonymous sources say there was immense pressure by senior politicians.
The grandson of Khomeini, visited Mr. Beheshti at his home after his release.
Beheshti was the head of one of the two committees that investigated the torture allegations of detainees during the post-election protests.The other committee was led by Mehdi Karroubi.
In the meantime, the number of clerics who are withdrawing their support for the government is increasing.
The word about Karroubi will be arrested gets louder, but it is possible that the government is delaying Mr. Karroubi’s arrest until after this Friday (Qods Day).
source: New York Times


Saturday a sunni cleric who backed Ahmadinejad has been killed in his house in Sanandaj.
The governor of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province, says that he believes the attack was linked to hardline Sunni groups seeking to stir unrest.
source: reuters



After two years is the political prisoner Misagh Yazdan-Nejad by a revolutionary court headed by judge Salavati in Tehran sentenced to 14 year jail term combined with exile inside Rajaei Shahr Prison.
Yazdan-Nejad, 23, student of language translation at Payam-Nour Shahriyar University,is in september 2007 arrested at a ceremony to pay respect to the victims of 1988.
In the past two years, he was incarcerated in Evin Prison for his association with an anti-Islamic Republic organization.
source: ihrv.org


The official report with realistic data about the notorious Kahrizak detentioncenter was revealed.
On July 10, 145 detainees, among them 10 students were sent to the Kahrizak detention center, generally used to hold gangsters.
The 145 prisoners were placed in a cell measuring 70 square meters, along with the 25 convicts already held inside the cell.
This means a total of 170 individuals in an area measuring 70 square meters.
According to other statements only four authorities have been arrested from the Kahrizak detention center, and six others have been freed on bond.
Of the 145 detainees, only 62 have filed a complaint, and of this number, 50 have already decided to drop their complaint, with one claiming fear as the main cause for their decision to drop the charges.
After establishment follow-ups, 118 people have come forward, 65 of whom have been sent to hospitals, and collectively 98,000 USD has been paid in damages.
source: ihrv.org



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