Iran: pressure

The minors Safar Angooti is scheduled to be executed October 21.
Also Mohamadreza Haddadi and Amir Amrollahi are at risk of execution during the coming week. No exact date has been given for the executions yet.
Bahman Salimian (Isfahan), Abbas Hosseini (Mashad), Rahim Ahmadi and Abbas Jahedi (Shiraz) are also at imminent risk of execution.
More than 140 minors are on the death row in Iran.
bron: iranhr.net

Blogger Hossein Derakhshan whose temporary detention order expired on October 10th, is still detained in Evinprison.
Human Rights Activists has received reports that Derakhshan, who was arrested in November 2008, has spent the first 8 months of his detention in isolation and was under physical and psychological pressure.
He has been beaten and was forced to squad under cold showers. They also repeatedly threatened to arrest his father and sister unless he confessed to espionage charges.
With the start of the mass-arrests after the election he was as result of cell shortages in Evin prison, transferred to Ward 2A of the IRGC prison, where he shared his cell with newly arrested people.
source: hra-iran.net

Blogger and journalist Fariba Pajooh has been detained for nearly 3 months. She has been subjected to harsh pressures and long interrogation sessions.
The site Human Rights Activists in Iran published a letter which her mother wrote to her and in which she tells about the routines for people who want to visit prisoners..
source: hra-iran.net




At two attacks on the IRGC have some 20 people been killed, among them IRGCcommandanters (Brigadier Nour-Ali Shoushtari and Brigadier Rajab-Ali Mohammadzadeh and more then 60 people were injured.
According to Reuters a suicidebomber, probably of Jundullagroup, killed himself at a gathering of tribal heads of sunni and shia tribes in the Pishinarea, Sistan-e-Baluchistan province.
The dead included Aref Bara son of Haj Vali Mohammad, Eslam Movahhedi, son of Ebrahim, Kalati Dehqani son of Shanbe Haj, Shahani Dehqani son of Saheb, Panjshanbe Dehqani son of Gajir, and Khodabakhsh Dehqani son of Moradbakhsh.
Around the same time, another group of IRGC commanders were caught in an explosion as their convoy came under attack between Sarbaz en Chabahar.
source: Reuters, PressaTV

Detained Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari was yesterday released on bail.
The journalist was arrested June 21 and faces charges for espionage.
The bailbond was $300.00.
It is not known whether he is allowed to leave Iran.
source: nytimes.com



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