Iran: pattern

Rasoul Alinejad and Behrooz Faridi, two students from Tabriz who were missing since Wednesday called their family and said they are hold in the detentioncentre of the ministry of information.
The trial of the detained students of Shiraz University was postponed again.
The postponement and the remarks by the prosecutor suggest that the students won't be released till after December 7 (16 Azar).
The problems and conditions for the post election prisoners in ward 350 of Evin prison get worse since prison officials implemented a number of harsh and arbitrary measures. Political prisoners are only allowed to make short and occasional phone-calls and are subjected to pressure by prison guards.
There are unconfirmed reports that some prisoners will start a hunger strike to protest their treatment.
Amin Vatayi, Mojtaba en Ahmad Hossein-Khan are released.
Majid Makooyi, a student of Malek Ashtar University in Isfahan, who was detained for 6 months, was released.
Students Soorna Hashemi, Mehrdad Bozorg, Farzan Ra’oofi, Ehsan Dolatshah, Sina Shokoohi, Alireza Mousavi and Alborz Zahedi from Liberal Students Organization, are 19 november arrested in Tehran. They were transferred to an unknown location.
6 students of Allameh University, Alireza Mousavi, Ahmad Mir-Taheri,Alireza Zargar, Hamid Ghahvehchian, Amir Kazempoor, and Yasser Masoumi, are arrested.

source: hra-iran.net



The families of the three imprisoned Americans, Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31 en Josh Fattal, 27, filed a petition with 2500 signatures with the Iranian mission to the United Nations.
source: philly.com


The lawyer of musician master Mohammad-Reza Shajarian says that after master Shajarian’s return from his trip, intelligence agents asked him to appear in the Ministry’s building on Jordan Street to respond to some queries by the agency.
He also said that the conversation took two hours and one of the items that was discussed was master Shajarian’s recent interview with Voice of America.
source: ihrv.org


The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center published a report with witness statements of five female prisoners who describe their experiences execution of thousands of political prisoners during the summer of 1988.
The statements in the report Speaking for the Dead: Survivor Accounts of Iran’s 1988 Massacre, are the result of interviews by the IHRDC with survivors and family of the victims.
The report is for download (pdf)
A Persian translation will be available the coming months.



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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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