Iran: ascertainment

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is yesterday evening arrested along with his wife Mahnaz Mohammadi, their daughter and some 15 guests.
Agents of the Ministry of Information searched their house and seized a number of items.
There is still no information on their whereabouts.
Panahi was briefly detained this summer in Behesht-Zahra cemetery after he brought flowers to the graves of the protesters killed in the aftermath of the June presidential election. Later he was banned from leaving the country to go to the Berlin Film Festival.
source: RAHANA

Mansour Osanloo was arrested in July 2007 to serve his 5 years prisonterm. In August 2008 he was transferred to Rajai-Shahr prison in Karaj.
This prison is reserved for dangerous convicts. This is in contravention to the law that requires the separation of prisoners based on the nature of their charges.
Since last year Osanloo has been attacked everal times by the violent inmates. The office of the Medical Examiner ruled that Osanloo is physically unfit to serve his sentence,He is in a ward with killers and other violent criminals.
His wife Parvaneh told that in the past days fellowprisoners tried to stab him. She fears for his life.
They are still pursuing the efforts to enforce the order issued by the Medical Examiner (which declared him unfit to serve his sentence), but nothing has happened.
source: RAHANA


Reformist newspapers Etemaad and Iran Dokht have been banned in Iran.
Iran Dokht is a reformist weekly where Mehdi Karroubi's son is in charge.
The newspaper Etemaad is accused of breaching media laws.

source: BBC




Feministschool has published a letter (fa) by Iranian women activists to Mousavi and Karroubi where they voice their demands of the Iranian women.
The letter emphasizes that during the post-election events, even the little promises disappeared from the announcements and interviews regarding the intention to pursue peoples’ rightful demands.
And this happens, while women and girls of this land have had a distinguished role in the green movement in pursuing the plundered rights of the Iranian people, have been in the front line of the green movement equal to men, and even have paid and are paying a higher price.
Don't forget that Iranian women in order to achieve their demands, voted for the reformist campaign promises, and those demands are impregnated in the green movement’s demands.
Women of Iran expect that their demands, side by side with other political and social demands, be addressed and pursued in a distinguished way.
The English text is here.



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