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Abolfazl Abedini-Nasr will be tried on October 26 in the revolutionary court in Ahwaz.
Abedini-Nasr who works in public relations for Human Rights Activists was held at the Ministry of Information for some time and was subjected to various forms of psychological and physical torture including flogging with cables.
He is now at the Sahidad Prison in Ahwaz.
He wrote various requests for temporary release on bail due to his severe heart condition,but those were denied.
He is accused of activities against national security, false propaganda against the Islamic Republic and membership in the Human Rights Activists of Iran.
source: hra-iran.net


Jamaleddin Rahamani is summoned to appear for the office of the Ministry of Information in Isfahan.
He is a civil engineering student in Free University of Dehaghan in Isfahan and member of HRA.
In 2008 he was arrested on accusation of propaganda against the state, taking part in illegal student demonstrations and collecting signatures for the release of Farzad Kamangar. He was entenced to 8 months of fixed prison term followed by 3 years of suspended term.
He was released in Januar and since then he has not been able to register for his courses thus far.
source: hra-iran.net

In Iran is at a military parade to remember the start of the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, a plane crashed down, at the village Vali Abad, near Teheran.
It is not known if there were any casualties.

Newsagency IRNA who reported this on her website removed the article after 30 minutes.
source: Twitter



International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch said today that the UN member states should use President Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit to the UN General Assembly to address Iran's worsening human rights.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a new 14-page report on September 21, : "Accelerating Slide into Dictatorship".



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Iran: to finish

At Eid-al-Fitr (end of ramadan) are in Iran were at 151 trafficaccidents 25 people killed and 215 others injured.
Most deadly accidents happened in Isfahan, Gilan en Mazandaran provinces.
The head of Traffic Control Department of the police said that the main reasons of accidents were 45 cases of failing to comply with double white lines, 32 cases of careless driving and 27 cases of excessive speeding.
source:PressTV



In Iran will for daylightsaving the clock tonight at 0.00 hrs be put back for one hour.
This last to March 21, 2010.
source: PressTV.



The upcoming annual Hajjpelgrimages, expected to begin on November 19, will this year be restricted due to swineflu/mexican flu/ A H1N1.
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims visit Saudi Arabia every year during the Hajj season.
This year, people with high blood pressure, diabetes or hyperthyroidism cant participate.
Lung, cardiovascular and kidney diseases along with active forms of cancer or long-term users of corticosteroids had previously been categorized as banned diseases from performing the pilgrimage.
Iranian Red Crescent has 11 medical centers in Mecca .
source: PressTV


Iranian authorities will launch a serious probe into the assaults of the last 10 days in Kordestan province.
The representative in the Assembly of Experts for Kordestan, Mamousta Sheikholeslam, the leader of Fridayprayers in Sanandaj Mamousta Borhan Ali, and two judges have been assassinated in the past 14 days.
source: Tehran Times


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Iran: protest

According to ISNA, Tehran police arrested Friday 35 people for vandalising public properties during Qods Day demonstrations.
source: AFP

Fridaynight, live television coverage the football match between Esteghlal and Steel Azin in Azadistadium in Tehran was blacked-out because sections of the crowd were chanting anti-government slogans and waving green emblems.
The game's scheduled live TV coverage was disrupted when bosses of IRIB learned of the presence of protesters inside the stadium.
According to Iranian websites the match was initially broadcast for a few minutes in black-and-white without crowd noise to show there were technical problems.
Finally, the game was broadcast an hour late, without sound and without showing the 70.000 spectators.
source: guardian.co.uk

BBCwebsite has made a selection of protestvideo's sent to them and on youtube.
Mehdi Saharkheiz, son of imprisoned journalist Isa Saharkheiz,uploaded some 80 video's on youtube.
source: BBC and youtube.

The blog Iran Watch Canada writes about the coming to New York to attend UN general assembly on Sep.22-24/09 of Ahmadinejad and the worldwide protests against this.


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Iran: (un)clear

President Ahmadinejad says that the three imprisoned hitchhikers broke the law and need to be punished .
He says he symphatizes with the family, but that he would only consider releasing the hikers if Iranians held in U.S. prisons are also freed.
It was not exactly clear which Iranians he was referring to.
The three hikers Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd en Josh Fattal were captured July 31th, when they strayed from the borderarea in Iraq to Kurdistan province.
source: voanews.com



Yesterday, the last Friday in the fasting month of Ramadan was Qodsday in Iran, a day with anti-Israel, pro-Palestine marches, demonstrated the reformist "Greens" massively against the government.
They chanted slogans like "No Gaza, no Lebanon, my life is for Iran", and instead of "death to Israel", the crowd chanted "death to Russia".
The people were wearing green wristbands, and shouted "torture and rape do not affect us any more."
source: Financial Times


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Reporters without Borders writes that the journalist/blogger Ali Pirhasanlou together with his wife Fatemeh Sotoudeh, is arrested in his house by plain clothes agents.
Other journalists and activists were arrested or were summoned for questioning by the intelligence services this week.
After newspapers has the internet become the new targets for repression.
Noorooz (website of reformist party Islamic Iran Participation Front), Parlemannews (website of reformist parliamentarians), Tagheer (a news website) and the womanwebsites FeministSchool and We-Change suffer access blockages. We-Change has been blocked the 20th x since it was launched. Provincial news websites such as Kermannama.net (www.kermannama.net/) have also been blocked.
Reporter without Borders is also concerned about Mohammad Pour Abdoullah, the editor from the blog Pishro (Avant-Garde), who was arrested Januar 12th for writing about a crackdown on the studentmovements and the interrogation methods used by intelligence ministry agents.
He was brought to Ghezel Hessar,a prison for non-political detainees after 23 days in solitary confinement.
source: RSF




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Iran: Qods Day

Today is QodsDay in Iran.
At big protestrallys in Teheran and other big cities thousands of people protested against Ahmadinejad govermment. There were various clashes with security forces.
AFP wrote that a group hardliners attacked ex-president Khatami, who attended the demonstration. IRNA reports that the people artacked Khatama as well as Mousavi and chased them away.
Reliable Twittersources report that both reports are false.
Mousavi did not attend the meeting.

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In this video the governmentloudspeaker calls "Dead to Israel" and the people call "Dead to Russia".


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Iran: accusations

15 students of Kashan university were summoned before the school’s disciplinary committee in two sessions.
They are charged with disorderly conduct and enticing other students to take part in protests against the results of the presidential election.
At the first session, held twenty days ago, five students have been censured from attending the university for duration of one term.
source: ihrv.org



Coalition of Human Rights Advocates made a first short report about Ward 209 of Evinprison.
Ninety detainees from the recent post-electoral events are still under constant pressure about recording of certain CDs.
Intelligence interrogators are demanding that the detainees confess that Mir-Hossein Mousavi was aware of the production and distribution of these CDs.
The CDs in question have been independently compiled by activist reporter A.F., he has only spent two days in detention.
Mohammad-Reza Jalaeipour, a spokesman to support solicitation for Mr. Khatami and Mr. Mousavi, has been held in section 209 in Evin prison since last June and is under pressure to confess that he made the plan for the nightly Allah-O-Akbar (God is great) call, which has recently turned into a form of popular protest.
In spite of recent published reports regarding the transfer to a general ward at September 7th, of imprisoned journalist Fariba Pezhveh, she still is kept in solitary confinement.
source: ihrv.org



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Iran: responsibility

Iranian authorities have arrested at least seven children and grandchildren of senior clerics in the religious city of Qum.
They also threatened to arrest the son of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Ayatollah Montazeri’s three grandchildren, were arrested Monday evening in Qum, at the home of their father
The website mowjcamp reports that also Mehdi Moussavi Tabrizi, the son of Hussein Moussavi Tabrizi, who heads the Association of Teachers and Researchers of Qum was arrested.
The son of Ayatollah Asghar Nazemzadeh and two sons of another member of the association were also arrested.
Newsagency Fars reported that a member of parliament called Monday for the arrest of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, the son of Mr. Rafsanjani.
Rafsanjani is the head of the Council of Experts, which has the power to dismiss Ayatollah Khamenei.
Mr. Rafsanjani sided very cautiously with the opposition last month.
Another sign that loyal conservatives are upset,is the letter which filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad wrote last Monday on various websites and his blog (fa), blaming Ayatollah Khamenei for the postelection violence.
source: nytimes.com



The schoolyear in Iran starts, despite the fluthreat of A H1N1, normal.
The Ministry of Education is opposed to the closure of schools.The governor of Tehran, Tamaddon, said that schools start on September 23.
They reduce the risk with prevention methods and basic hygiene measures.
The Iranian Ministry of Health says there are nationwide 357 confirmed cases of flu and that two people died, IRNA reported today there were 391 people ill and 4 deaths.
source: Press TV

The Iranian ambassador in Delhi said that India has to decide soon to take part in a billion dollar pipeline which transports gas from Iran to India through Pakistan.
Iran and Pakistan signed the deal in May this year. Reports say China is also interested in being a part of it.
source: BBC



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Iran: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Kahrizak?

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that three committees investigating arrests, detentions and killings in the context of post-election protests, are closed by authorities.
The groups are Association to Defend Prisoners Rights, Committee for Following the Situation of Detainees a part of Mousavi's campaign and Committee for Following Detainees and Injured of Mehdi Karoubi's campaign.
Leading activists of both of the latter two groups were arrested.
September 7, the committee of Mousavi was closed, which investigated and published a list with the names of 72 killed victims.
Ali Beheshti head of the Committee and Mohammad Davari, journalist at Etemad Melli's website, Saham News,were arrested.
September 8 the offices of Etemad Melli Party, the party of Mehdi Karoubi, were searched and documents confiscated. The office was one of the places where evidence was collected about the rapes in prison.
Morteza Alviri, the head of the committee was arrested.
Also september 8 was the office of Association to Defend Prisoners Rights, established by human rightslawyer Emad Baghi searched and closed.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Despite the threat of being arrested refused Mehdi Karroubi to back down from the accusation that security forces brutally abused and raped detainees.
After his newspaper and website were closed down by authorities, he wrote in a letter on his new website Tagheer.ir,that he wished he wasn't alive to see an Iranian citizen come to him and recount his story of having been subject to improper and heinous acts by unknown individuals in deserted buildings.
Detainees were stripped and seated face-to-face, insulted impudently, urinated upon and abandoned blindfolded with hands tied behind their backs in deserts.
And that is not all, young boys and girls were raped in detentioncenters.
The government had promised to investigate these allegations, only to issue a report
saying no such thing occurred and that Karroubi was lying to promote a political agenda.
Karoubi says that until Saeed Mortazavi interfered, demanding to meet with one of the victims, the investigation was proceeding well.
Instead of listening he said to the young man that he should have remained silent for God's sake and for the sake of his family and not have let this affair play into the hands of political activists.
The next day he dispatched agents to the young man's neighborhood to spread rumors about him him under the pretext of investigating his claims.
The young man has since disappeared.
An other case, described by Karoubi, is that of a young woman arrested in a street demonstration.
She was forcefully stripped and when a senior officer came and asked what was happening, the men said she undressed voluntarily in order to discredit them.
A third case involves a young political activist.
He had medical proof showing inflammation of his anus. He has been unconscious and could not tell what has happened to him to have developed bruises around anus.
He had been severely beaten for five consecutive days and the jailers had finally abandoned him in a remote desert because they feared he would die.
source: latimesblogs.latimes.com


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Iran: pressure

ILNA reports, that Alireza Hosseini-Beheshti top-aide of Mousavi,who was arrested last week, Sunday is released.
No explanation for the release was given, but anonymous sources say there was immense pressure by senior politicians.
The grandson of Khomeini, visited Mr. Beheshti at his home after his release.
Beheshti was the head of one of the two committees that investigated the torture allegations of detainees during the post-election protests.The other committee was led by Mehdi Karroubi.
In the meantime, the number of clerics who are withdrawing their support for the government is increasing.
The word about Karroubi will be arrested gets louder, but it is possible that the government is delaying Mr. Karroubi’s arrest until after this Friday (Qods Day).
source: New York Times


Saturday a sunni cleric who backed Ahmadinejad has been killed in his house in Sanandaj.
The governor of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province, says that he believes the attack was linked to hardline Sunni groups seeking to stir unrest.
source: reuters



After two years is the political prisoner Misagh Yazdan-Nejad by a revolutionary court headed by judge Salavati in Tehran sentenced to 14 year jail term combined with exile inside Rajaei Shahr Prison.
Yazdan-Nejad, 23, student of language translation at Payam-Nour Shahriyar University,is in september 2007 arrested at a ceremony to pay respect to the victims of 1988.
In the past two years, he was incarcerated in Evin Prison for his association with an anti-Islamic Republic organization.
source: ihrv.org


The official report with realistic data about the notorious Kahrizak detentioncenter was revealed.
On July 10, 145 detainees, among them 10 students were sent to the Kahrizak detention center, generally used to hold gangsters.
The 145 prisoners were placed in a cell measuring 70 square meters, along with the 25 convicts already held inside the cell.
This means a total of 170 individuals in an area measuring 70 square meters.
According to other statements only four authorities have been arrested from the Kahrizak detention center, and six others have been freed on bond.
Of the 145 detainees, only 62 have filed a complaint, and of this number, 50 have already decided to drop their complaint, with one claiming fear as the main cause for their decision to drop the charges.
After establishment follow-ups, 118 people have come forward, 65 of whom have been sent to hospitals, and collectively 98,000 USD has been paid in damages.
source: ihrv.org



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Iran: further

September 8 published the EU a statement concerning imminent execution of the juvenile offenders Behnoud Shojaee, Reza Padashi and Hossein Haghi.
They are sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors.
The EU notes that these executions would be a direct contravention of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both clearly prohibiting the execution of minors or people who have been convicted of crimes committed when they were minors.
The EU urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to comply with International Law and to halt the executions of these and of all other juvenile offenders.
The EU continues to call on the Iranian authorities to abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions as urged by United Nations General Assembly resolutions 62/149 and 63/168.
source: iranhr.net

At shootings in the borderarea of Kurdistan 4 people got shot by security forces.
Monday, September 7 was in Kani Zard near Sardasht, Edris Sheikhpoor killed,
September 9 security forces in Shamshir near Paveh opened fire on a civilian car, killing Kayvan Hosseini.
Also, Iranian and Turkish military borderpatrols in Haji Bayg opened fired on cars and animals suspected of carrying contraband.
source: hra-iran.net



Reuters reports that dozens of people have filed complaints of mistreatment at an Iranian jail and that seven arrests have been made.
Mohammad-Kazem Bahrami, head of the Armed Forces' Judicial Organization, said in daily Etemad that further arrests had been made.
Bahrami said also that 90 people filed legal complaints.
In Etemads article was no mention of allegations by Karoubi,that some detained protesters had been raped.
source: reuters


GlobalVoicesOnline reports that in memoriam of the at least 70 persons who were killed in the post-election violence, various websites are made.
One of them is neverforget.us. This site shows photographs and biography's of the victims.
The site Green Martyrs informs also about the victims.


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