Iran: voiced

Global Voices Advocacy 3 November launched a new website called Threatened Voices against suppression of freespeech online.
Around the world people are harrassed and imprisoned for what they write online.
The Committee to Project Journalists worldwide (CPJ) reported that online journalists and bloggers represented in December 2008 45% of all media workers in prison worldwide.
Committee to Protect Bloggers, The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Reporters without Borders, Human Rights Watch, CyberLaw Blog, Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, Global Voices Advocacy created a central platform.

Reuters reports that Iranian police is ready to perform handamputations according to sharia law.
According to Iranian sharialaw repeat offenders face amputation of their fingers for theft, but sentences are seldom carried out in recent years, especially in public.
The newspaper Ebtekar writes that Asghar Jafari, head of criminal police told that not carrying the Islamic punishment law, particularly its most important part that is hand amputation, spreads insecurity in Iran.
He added that police is ready to amputate the hands of convicted criminals.
source: Reuters


Iran Human Rights Voice reports:
November 2 is Amin Vattani, student at Sharif university arrested.
November 4 is Farzad Islami, lawstudent at Azad university of Tehran arrested.
November 4 is Ali Asadullahi, a suspended student at Science and Industry University in Iran arrested.
November 3 were Ali Parviz and Sohail Mohammadi two students at Khajeh Nasirulddin Toosi University arrested.
November 4 raided plainclothed agents the university of Shiraz and kidnapped an unknown number of students.
source: ihrv.org


De International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports a wave of arrests under students in Iran.
At the university of Shiraz are 20 and in Mashhad are 10 students arrested.
November 3 and 4 are many people arrested, including Hasan Asadi Zaidabadi, Kouhzad Esmaeli, Mohammad Sadeghi, Hojat Sharifi and his wife Nafiseh Zarekohan.
To prevent students of demonstrating November 4, students were arrested including Ali Parviz and Sohail Mohammadi.
Students at Khaje Nasir University in Tehran were arrested 4 November in their homes and their status is unknown.
Mohammad Hashemi, was arrested November 4th and after 2 hours of interrogation released.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Het reportof Human Right Activists in Iran for November 8:
Mahsa Naderi, Davvod Soleimani and Fariba Pajooh were denied medical assistance .
Visits were canceled for Hossein Nourani-Nejad, Esmail Sahabeh and Saeed Nour-Mohammadi .
Behzad Navai i appeared before the court.
Farhad Pouladi, Habib Hajian, Hadi Haydari, Mohammad-Javad Mozafari, Mohammad-Amin Shirzad, Ebrahim Shirkavand and Maysam Vareh-Chehr are released.
Ehsan Fattahian has gone on hunger strike to protest his deathsentence.
source: hra-iran.net



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