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Studentactivist Mohammad Karimi was on National Student Day arrested.
Human Rights Reporters Committee reports that December 7th he was arrested in his home in Larijani by security agents.
11 days ago they raided his house also, but took only personal belongings.
Karimi was active in the campaign headquarters of MirHosein Mousavi during the controversial elections of 2009.
source: iranbriefing.net

December 7th is unionactivist from Vahed Syndicate in Tehran, Ebrahim Madadi arrested, after being freed only last week.
International transportunion secretary of ITF says that it is not known if this arrest is a bureaucratic error or an attempt to intimidate.
source: iranlaborreport.com


Despite the knowledge that Iran filters its internet and restricts other communications by telephone and tv, European companies continue to provide services to Tehran.
European satellitecompanies like Eutelsat, Intelsat and Arqiva provide extensive services to IRIB, but also to Al Alam and Press-TV.
In recent years they did little to stop Iran to jam other broadcasts.
EU and USA should take immediate and decisive action requiring that these satellite companies end their cooperation with Iranian censors.
source: iranhumanrights.org

To mark International Human Rights Day December 10, IHRDC released a video with instructions how to collect evidence of human rights abuses in Iran.
The video is in Farsi.
source: iranhrdc.org


FIDH/LDDHI publishes a report for International Human Rights Day updated to the end of November 2011.

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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