Monday, December 28, 2009

Iran: protests

It is reported that yesterday in Iran at least 10 people were killed by the police.
Mir Hossein Mousavi's nephew, Seyyed Ali Moussavi, 35 also was killed.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a friend of Moussavi wrote on his website that Ali Mousavi first was run over by a vehicle then five men came out of the car and one of them shot him.
More then 300 people were arrested and cars were set on fire.
People demonstrated also in Tabriz, Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashad, Arak, Najafabad.
According to the website of the Green Movement 4 people in Tabriz and 1 person in Shiraz were killed.
The names of yesterdays victims are: : Seyyed Ali Habibi Mousavi Khameneh , Mehdi Farhadinia, Mohammad Ali Rasekhinia, Amir Arshadi and Shahram Faraji.
Yesterday and today were multiple people arrested, Alireza Beheshti Shirazi, editor of Kalemeh website, Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi head of Assembly of Teachers, Ebrahim Yazdi,and unconfirmed Mir Hossein Moussavis advisors Mohammad Baghriyan and Ghorban Behzadian-Nejad.
source: nytimes.com, iranhr.net, enduringamerica.com


Protests continue today.
Here some videos.

Street Journalist reports with photos and news in a time-line.


Global Voices Online writes that the protests reminded Chinese people of the Tiananmen democracy movement back in 1989 and Chinese twitterers are using hashtag #cn4iran.



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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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