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10/10/2009 - Saturday - Tehran - Iran sentences three to death over vote unrest
TEHRAN (Reuters) – A court has sentenced three people to death over street unrest that erupted after Iran's disputed election in June and links to exiled opposition groups, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday. ISNA news agency, citing the head of the publication relations office of Tehran provincial court, did not identify those condemned, giving only their initials. It was the first official statement of death sentences in connection with the presidential poll, which the opposition says was rigged to secure hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, and the huge opposition protests that followed. The authorities have rejected vote fraud charges and portrayed the protests as a foreign-backed bid to undermine the Islamic Republic. "The execution sentences were handed down because of involvement in post-election developments and affiliation with the Iran monarchical association and the PMOI," the official, Zahid Bashiri-Rad, said.

8/15/2009 - Saturday - Tehran - Iranian ex-MPs challenge Khamenei
A group of former Iranian MPs has appealed to a powerful clerical panel to investigate if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is fit to rule. The call was made to the Assembly of Experts, which under Iranian law has the power to remove the supreme leader. In a letter, the group denounces the crackdown on protests after June's disputed poll and the resulting trials. Meanwhile a senior cleric has said a reformist leader should be prosecuted for alleging protesters had been raped. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said defeated election candidate Mehdi Karroubi's remarks boosted Iran's enemies, particularly the US and Israel. Mr Karroubi has alleged that some protesters - male and female - were raped while detained in prison. He has also said that some were tortured to death.

8/15/2009 - Saturday - Tehran - اصلاح طلبان زورآزمائی با خامنه ای را شروع کردند
* اصلاح طلبان تابوی زير سئوال بردن خامنه ای را شکستند
واشنگتن پست زير عنوان "درخواست اصلاح طلبان برای تحقيق در باره رهبرارشد ايران" می نويسد يگ گروه از قانونگذاران پيشين اصلاح طلب ازيک تشکيلات مذهبی قدرتمند در ايران خواستار تحقيق در باره صلاحيت حکمرانی آيت الله علی خامنه ای رهبر ارشد شده اند، که يک زورآزمائی بی سابقه با قدرتمندترين فرد کشور در مورد سرکوبی های پس از انتخابات است.
واشنگتن پست می نويسد اين درخواست هنگامی مطرح ميشود که بحث و جدل در باره اتهامات حاکی ازشکنجه معترضين توقيف شده در جريان سرکوبی ها شدت گرفته است. آخوندهای تندرو در نقاط مختلف کشور خواستار تعقيب رهبر ارشد اصلاح طلبی شده اند که مدعی است زندانبانان به بعضی از توقيف شدگان تجاوز کرده اند. واشنگتن پست می نويسد درخواست قانونگذاران پيشين اصلاح طلب به مجلس خبرگان داده شده است که تشکيلاتی مذهبی است، و بر اساس قوانين ايران از قدرت تعيين رهبر ارشد، و در تئوری، از قدرت برکناری او برخوردار است- هرچند که دراين زمينه هيچگاه اقدامی انجام نداده است. . واشنگتن پست می نويسد حتی اگر درخواست ناديده گرفته شود، و سمبوليک باشد، اين واضح ترين زورآزمائی با خامنه ای درجريان تلاطمی است که ايران را پس ازانتخابات مورد اختلاف رياست جمهوری به آشفتگی کشانده است. اين درخواست در هم شکننده تابوئی بزرگ در ميان طبقات سياسی ايران برای هدف گرفتن علنی خامنه ای است، که موضع او در راس تشکيلات سياسی مذهبی هيچگاه زير سئوال نرفته بود.

8/14/2009 - Friday - Tehran - Protesters raped in Tehran jail, politician claims
Mehdi Karroubi, one of the defeated candidates in Iran's disputed presidential election, has angered hardliners by alleging that male and female protesters were raped by their jailers in the crackdown following the vote. One hardline cleric has called for Karroubi, who came third in the election, to be prosecuted for making the claims. But undaunted, Karroubi has gone further, saying some detainees were tortured to death. He also compared the treatment of prisoners with that at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Some detainees were "forced to go naked, crawl on their hands and knees like animals, with prison guards riding on their backs". Others were forced to lie "naked, on top of one another," Karroubi said in a statement tonight.

8/14/2009 - Friday - Tehran - گروهی از مقامات ارشد و مدیران گذشته و حال ایران درباره بحرانی بودن وضعیت کشور هشدار دادند
گروهی از مدیران و مقامات جمهوری اسلامی ایران، که در ۳۰ سال گذشته مسئولیت هایی برعهده داشته اند، در بیانیه ای مشترک نسبت به وضعیت فعلی کشور هشدار دادند. در این بیانیه که تعداد زیادی از وزیران، معاونان، استانداران، فرمانداران، رؤسا و استادان برجسته دانشگاه ها و نمایندگان ادوار مجلس، آنرا امضا کرده اند و روز پنجشنبه در روزنامه اعتماد منتشر شده است، از جمله گفته می شود:«انتخابات دوره دهم ریاست جمهوری صحنه ای بی نظیراز نشاط ملی، امید به آینده، اعتماد به نفس و انسجام اجتماعی آفرید. اما در جریان انتخابات و نیز پس از آن متأسفانه شرایطی پیش آمد که از هر نظر با این زمینه و باور متفاوت بود.»

8/14/2009 - Friday - United Nations - U.N. experts say Iran tortured to extract confessions
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Three independent United Nations human rights experts have accused Iran of torturing confessions from detainees charged with fomenting political unrest, the international organization said Thursday. "No judicial system can consider as valid a confession obtained as a result of harsh interrogations or under torture," said Manfred Nowak, who is the U.N. special rapporteur on torture. The treatment of detainees at Iran's prisons has increasingly become a divisive issue within Iran's Islamic leadership, as reformists continue to accuse the hardline government of allowing abuse and torture in attempts to coerce false confessions.
Iranian officials have denied the allegations. "These confessions for alleged crimes such as threats against national security and treason must not, under any circumstances, be admitted as evidence by the Revolutionary Court," said El Hadji Malick Sow, vice chairman of the U.N.'s working group on arbitrary detention. The United Nations, in a news release, said the statements also reflect the position of Margaret Sekaggya, special U.N. rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.

6/29/2009 - Monday - Guardian News and Media - Iran 2009 Election - Faces of Dead and Detained
* Lets put a face to each of those hundreds - possibly thousands - killed or arrested since the Iranian election. Since the disputed election on June 12 2009, the iranian authorities have detained hundreds of opposition supporters, journalists and protesters. There have also been a number of deaths. The interactive table shows the name & picture (if available) of the dead and detained. Guardian News is asking help from Iranians and journalists who have information on the dead or detained or have picture of those already listed.