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The son of the late Hossein Ali Montazeri, Ahmad Montazeri reports that early Monday morning a group of hardliners raided the office of his father in Qom and that authorities closed the office.
Nobody was present yet, so no one was hurt.


Yesterday the house of ayatollah Sanei in Qom was surrounded by hardline regime supporters during a visit of Mehdi Karroubi.
source: AFP, Laredosun.us



Broadcaster HBO made a documentary about the life of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman whose dead shocked the world and became a symbol for those killied in resistance in Iran.
The film is a series of interviews with Neda's family, filmed at great personal risk by Iranian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan. Since Neda's death, her family has been officially silenced, it was not even allowed to publicly mourn her, while contradictory and often ridiculous announcements about her death were made by the state. She was not dead, she was living in Greece. She was killed by the CIA, by the BBC, she wasn't Neda at all, but an actress hired by Western forces to stir up trouble..
source: latimes.com


As of this week the vis-a-vis visitationrights for political prisoners are revoked.Political prisoners will be allowed to meet in cabins that only permit phone conversations.
source: persian2english


GlobalVoicesOnline writes that Blognews reported(fa) on Sunday that all wordpressblogs are filtered in Iran.
Video's of worldwide protests at the anniversary of the disputed Iranian presidential election.In Iran Iranians were not allowed to demonstrate.

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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.
Poster amnesty.nl