Brief on Reports of Protests in Iran

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Brief on Reports of Protests in Iran

Workers of the Ablorz tire Factory set fire to tires in this factory on Monday October 25 in protest to their demands not being met. These workers have not received their wages for several months. Worker representatives have threatened that they would gather outside the Tehran Industrial Ministry and the heads of the Ministry immediately announced that they would give this factory a 5 billion toman loan.

Workers of the Pashmineh Baft Factory in Qazvin also held a protest gathering outside the offices of this factory. These workers have not received their wages for one year and are forced to live in dire financial conditions. They also went from Qazvin to Tehran October 9 for the fourth time to hold a protest gathering.

Bus drivers – Tehran bus drivers went on a strike on October 24 in protest to not receiving their wages for putting in additional time. These drivers protested in the roads between Tehransar and Azadi Street.

Teachers – Teachers who receive their wages on a daily basis held a protest gathering outside the Iranian parliament on October 24 because of the expulsion of 36,000 employees of the educational system in Iran. These unsatisfied teachers had come from the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, Isfahan, Easter Azarbaijan, Semnan and Boushehr. They had several protest gatherings in Tehran especially in the past two months.
Teachers who receive their wages on a daily basis and are not considered official and can be fired at any time have been laid off to pay off the budget deficient in the Ministry of Education. Recently the Minister of Education in the Ahmadinejad government, Hamidreza Haji Babayi claimed that these teachers ‘had illegally entered this ministry’. This is while each one of the fired teachers had several years of experience and mostly had university degrees and master’s degrees. These teachers say that for the past four years in some provinces and in 2009 in Tehran and other provinces, the shortage of education forces in the Educational System was provided with these unofficial teachers. And their wages seriously varied in different provinces. But these teachers said that they did not say anthind and did not complain but now the government has evaded the main issue and has fired these teachers in the face of their patience.

The people of Larestan in the Fars Province held a protest gathering outside the home of the Friday Prayer leader of this town in protest to the divisions made in the country. These people demanded that that the town of Ouz and Biroum be joined once again with Larestan.

Economical News:
The price of home gas has suddenly increased in Tehran and has reportedly increased eightfold.
According to a Tehran resident in a “residential building which houses 10 families, the price of gas used to be 1 million and 847 tomans, but now even while we have used less than before, we had to pay 8 million and 338,700 tomans”.
“This is while 4 million tomans have been subtracted from the gas bill as government subsidies. This means that without the subsidies, the gas bill would be more than 12 million tomans”, this resident said.
While the Smart Subsidy Plan has not been carried out in the country, the increase of the price of gas given to homes has raised concerns that if these subsidies are scrapped, the price of gas would severely rise.
The price of electricity has also tripled and has risen from 162 rials per kilowatt hour to 430 rials per kilowatt hour.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 28, 2010

University professor tortured in detention in Isfahan
Oct. 26, 2010
One of the professors of the Free Isfahan University who will remain anonymous (for security reasons) has been temporarily released from prison after being physically and mentally tortured in detention.
According to our sources, this university student was beaten and tortured after protesting a sentence suspending him from this university. After paying a 150 million toman (150,000 dollar) bail, he was temporarily released until his trial. Some of the charges made against him were acting against national security, creating anxiety for the public, disrupting the order of the university and cooperating with foreign elements.
These pictures, which were taken after his release, show the torture signs on his body. (Human Rights Activists in Iran)

Iran sentences Science and Industry University students to prison terms for protesting
Oct. 26, 2010
A number of the students of the Science and Industry University in Tehran who were arrested in student gatherings in the university or in street demonstrations were sentenced to 10 years of prison all together.
These students who were detained in Evin Prison for some time after their arrest were temporarily released on bail until they were summoned to the Revolutionary Court this summer and their initial sentences were announced to them…
The reason for the arrest of some these students has been stated as ‘being active in the presidential elections in 2009’ and ‘sending emails’…
Some of these students who were summoned to court said that their trials did not last more than 6 to 7 minutes.

Intelligence interrogator threaten to pin new charges against political prisoner in notorious Gohardasht Prison 
Oct. 26, 2010
According to reports, interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence intend to pin new charges against political prisoner Afshin Baimani.
After new criminal records were filed for Afshin Baimani by his interrogators, he was transferred from his solitary cell in cellblock 1 known as the ‘doghouse’ for its inhumane conditions to the assistant prosecutor’s office in prison on Monday October 25. The assistant prosecutor charged him with insulting sanctities and threatened that he would be sentenced to 5 additional years of prison.
This political prisoner was violently thrown in solitary while being mistreated on October 3 and was physically tortured in solitary.
Interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence have in the past filed additional charges against political prisoners Mansour Radpour and Mansour Osalu and sentenced them to 5 years and 1 year of prison. This is one of the methods used to suppress political prisoners who are serving their prison time.

Iran hangs five people without disclosing time and place of executions 
Oct. 26, 2010
Tehran Prosecutor Jafari Dolat Abadi said that in the past few days, five people were killed on charges of dealing narcotics in what he called the ‘serious battle’ against narcotics.
The Tehran prosecutor said that in the past two or three days 5 people were executed and admitted that this policy would continue. He did not mention the exact time and place of the executions.
According the state-run ISNA news agency, Dolat Abadi said that “these sentences have to be carried out”.
“It has been recommended that the sentences of all those who have finalized sentences be carried out”, he added.


Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 27, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 720

Downfall

Fearful reaction by the international adviser of judicature from exposures of Wiki leaks

Oct. 26, 2010

Mohammad Javad Larijani, international adviser of judicature, expressed his worry from exposure of documents showing the regime figure in terrorist crimes in Iraq and said: it is necessary to prevent any political misuse of wiki leaks documents and stand against it.


Effect of Sanction

Factory workers in Qazvin laid off from work
Oct. 24, 2010
A worker in the Tazh Company in Qazvin wrote a letter describing the very hard working conditions in this company.
The state-run Ati News website quoted these workers and wrote, “The Tazh Company produces hygienic goods and is located in the Leilay Industrial Township in Qazvin and its new phase will ended in the summer with Ahmandinejada’s presence. According to him, all officials and contracted workers in this factory will be paid off and new forces will be used instead of them. Currently more than 200 people work in this factory that are either officially hired or contracted.
This worker has said that some of the workers in this factory have contracted lung diseases because of working directly with chemicals and with their current income, they cannot afford treatment for it and now they also have to look for new jobs.


Resistance

Iranians write slogans in public places in Tehran’s Amir Abad regions inviting the public to Student Day protests 

Oct. 26, 2010

University students and young people wrote slogans in Tehran’s Amir Abad region calling for 'Students' Day' Demonstrations on December 7.
Some of these slogans were, ‘we will be there on December 7 – Death to Khamenei
Students fight and Khamenei trembles – don't forget Student Day, December 7'

Public protest and close down of shops in Larestan – Fars
Oct. 23, 2010
People of Larestan in Fars, in continuation of their requests for rejoining of Ooz and Beyrom to Larestan, on Saturday, held a public protest and closed their shops and gathered in front of the Mosque of the city and confirmed on their protest and gathering till they reach to their demands.

Protest move of fast drive line bus drivers of Tehran 
Oct. 23, 2010
Majority of buses of Tehran pars to Azadi, prevented coming to work due to their protest against not paying for excess work which the worker have done.

Protest Act by Tehran Bus Drivers
Oct. 24, 2010
Tehran bus drivers left their work on Sunday, October 24, 2010 in protest to their unpaid salaries.

Protest gathering of workers of PashinehBaft Factory in Qazvin 
Oct. 23, 2010
Workers of PoshinehBaftin protest against their 12 months unpaid salary, gathered in front of the factory.

News on Universities

Taking students cards from Hormozgan students under the excuse of bad veiling
Oct. 26, 2010
On Sunday, October 25, 2010 security agents of Hormozgan University, under the excurse of bad veiling took the cards of the most of girl students and told them for getting their cards, they have to refer to the security department. The pressure was so high that in an hour, 100 cards were detained.

Shiraz university students hold protest sit-in
Oct. 24, 2010
Students of the Shiraz University held a sit in in protest to the clashes which occurred last week in this university which led to the injuries of a number of students. Students blocked off the road leading the university with their cars and prevented classed from being held.



Disturbing the students of Gorgan University
Oct. 23, 2010
Following the plan of separation between men and women in universities, in Gorganuniversity, security forces in many different ways tried to make disturbance for students. As one girl students in Gorgan university said, since a while ago entrance gate of boys and girls were separated and the behaviors of agents were very rude and un polite. These restrictions are harder on girls.

Increase in salary of Boali university of Hamedan and close down of café
Oct. 25, 2010
As students say, this year there has been so much pressure on students and there was an increase of about 130 $ on the university of agriculture of Boali salary and the café of this university is already closed.

Threat and scaring freedom loving university professors by Basijs' agents
Oct. 25, 2010
A group of Basij in Khaligfars in Boushehr, announced that we cannot bear the opposition professors.
Raja News reports, a Basij group named society of Islamic students of Khalijfars university, in a statement, while confessing on resistance of professors said: offenses of new young professors in university , was not the beginning of the story, there has always been samples among other selected professors.


Suppression

33 people including a youth and two women were executed in October
Oct. 25, 2010
Statistic and publication unit for human rights activists in Iran gave the news of at least execution of 33 prisoners.
According to reports, among the executed there are two women and a youth who was convicted to a crime when he was a youth. In the last month Kerman with 9 execution and Isfahan with 6 executions are on top of the list and Shiraz and Ahwaz are the next.
This report adds that dissection of the hand of a man in Tehran and public lashing in Ahwaz and Gonbad for 6 prisoners under the name of god, are same as the range of these facts.

Iran chops off hand of another man Yazd Prison
Oct. 23, 2010
The hand amputation sentence was carried out in the Central Yazd prison.
The convict was identified as 32 year old ‘M’. His amputation sentence was carried out after it was upheld by the Supreme Court and after his request for amnesty was turned down by the Judiciary’s Amnesty and Sentence Commutation Commission in the Yazd Central Prison. (Asre Iran state-run daily)

Death sentence for 4 people was issued in Ramsar
 Oct. 25, 2010
Ramsar's judiciary issued death sentence for four people.
The head of Judiciary in Ramsar said:  this sentence will be done after the confirmation of high bureau of the country.

Iranian regime’s widespread suppression of political prisoners
Oct. 25, 2010
Political prisoners who have written or signed statements in Evin or other prisoners have been summoned by the court and have been asked to deny that they have signed these statements and if they refuse, they will be thrown in solitary or receive other punishments.
According to reports, these political prisoners have also been threatened that if they not deny their signatures on these statements, their visits will also be cut off and new charges will be made against them.
Being denied a condition release and leaves from prison is another thing that these prisoners have been threatened with. Fourteen political prisoners in Evin Prison’s cellblock 350 issued a statement some time ago in reaction to Ahmadinejad’s statement in the UN General Assembly that a truth finding independent group had to look into the September 11 attacks to identify the real culprits of this crime. These 14 political prisoners asked that an international truth finding committee do the same thing in Iran and discover the real facts in the Iranian presidential elections and post-election events.
Those who signed this statement were Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi, Seyed Milad Asadi, Mohsen Amin Zadeh, Ali Parviz, Ali Tajenia, Mohammad Davari, Majid Dori, Amir Khosro Dalir Sani, Mohammad Farid Taheri Qazvini, Keivan Samimi, Kouhyar Goudarzi, Ali Malihi, Abdollah Momeni, and Mohsen Mirdamadi.
Political prisoners Abdollah Momeni, Keivan Samimi, Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi, Mohammad Davari and Kouhyar Goudarzi have been under the most pressure so far to deny that they signed this statement.
A number of these prisoners were summoned to court and pressured last week but none have given in to this demand.
They had stressed in their statement that ‘as some of the innocent detained victims of post-election events, we have been charged, arrested and sentenced to unjust prison terms in the same way that Mr. Ahmadinejad cited (in his speech) and we propose that a national independent truth finding group, made up of people who are credible and trusted in the society be established to discover the truth about the elections and post-election events.
According to reports, Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) political prisoners have also received the same kind of threats over publishing political statements.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 26, 2010

Gohardasht Prison gang beat and stab prisoner in organized attack
Oct. 25, 2010
According to reports, in a bloody clash in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, a prisoner was severely wounded and was transferred to a hospital in Tehran on the verge of death.
On Sunday, October 24, prisoner Vahid Khodabakhsh who was being brought back from court by prison guards was intentionally returned to cellblock 1 so that he would be attacked by prison gangs. When this prisoner was completely surrounded by the gang, prison guards left the scene so that the gang could easily attack him.
The assailers who were about 7 or 8 people attacked him with knives and stabbed him several times. Vahid Khodabakhsh was stabbed in the stomach, shoulder, lungs and his legs. His lung has been punctured in two places and his leg artery was also severed.
Khodabakhsh was taken to a hospital in Tehran where he is reportedly in very critical condition. According to reports, this organized attack was to take revenge over the beating of a prison guard by prisoners a few weeks ago.
Prison gangs who are in various cellblocks in Gohardasht Prison have been organized by Ali Haj Kazem, and Ali Mohammadi, the head and assistant head of prison and Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit in this prison. They are active in selling drugs, attacking dissident prisoners and political prisoners. They have cell phones in prison and are also armed with knives and even swords and daggers. Prison officials and guards do not interfere while they are clashing with other prisoners and only after the fight is over, they evacuate the slain and injured prisoners from the cellblock.

Prisoner hanged in Karoun prison on moral charges
Oct. 25, 2010
A prisoner was executed in the Karoun Prison in Ahwaz on Saturday October 23.
The Public Relations Office of the Khuzestan Judiciary said that M.S was charged with ‘immoral conduct’. His charge has not been confirmed by an independent source.
According to this report, his death sentence was issued by the provincial penal court and was upheld by the Supreme Court

New reports on secret mass executions in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad
Oct. 25, 2010
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is constantly getting credible reports from former prisoners in Vakil Abad Prison (in Mashhad) regarding numerous group hangings which are carried out without prior notice. Trusted sources show that in the past year (Persian Year starting from March 24) there have been numerous executions in Vakil Abad Prison and at least 600 people are waiting for their death sentences to be carried out.
According to the latest reports, on Tuesday October 12, 10 prisoners were hanged in Vakil Abad Prison. The number of announced executions by officials is much fewer that the real figures…
Iranians officials do not present any figures for the number of executed prisoners, do not announce the names of hundreds of people who are executed throughout the year and do not announce the crimes that these people have been accused of. A number of former prisoners in Vakil Abad have reported that officials have tried to limit the information stream regarding group executions in the prison.
“Families, lawyers and death row prisoners do not receive a written sentence after it has been issued, they also do not know when the sentences will be carried out so that they can be present at the time of execution. The day after the execution, they pay the fee for the noose (used to hang their loved one) and receive the bodies”, a former Vakil Abad prisoner said regarding the executions carried out in prison.
 “When they intend to carry out the execution sentence, the prison telephones are cut off at 4 pm so that no one would be able to notify the outside, the prison yard is evacuated of prisoners and all prisoners except the cellblock deputies who are prisoners themselves are led to their cellblocks. At that point, everyone knows that it is time for the executions. No one knows whose turn it is until the names are read out. The head of the prison Protection Unit (Alizadeh), the prison judge (Anvari) and the assistant prosecutor or the prosecutor go into the cellblocks and with the help of guards, read out the names of prisoners and send them outside the cellblock”, this former prisoner said.
Sources have reported that in prison those who are ‘cellblock deputies’ are actually prisoners themselves and are allowed to be present in the stages before the executions.
“After the sentences are carried out and the executions have ended, the names and number of hanged prisoners become known to prisoners because the cellblock deputies are allowed to be present in the stages before the executions”.
“Because I was in cellblock 6-1, I was able to see with my own eyes the number of executed prisoners (46) and their Ghosl (religious washing of the body before death) and when they were writing their wills and after carrying out these stages, they were taken for execution”, a former prisoner said regarding a group execution. (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran )

Iran chops off hand of another man Yazd Prison
Oct. 23, 2010
The hand amputation sentence was carried out in the Central Yazd prison.
The convict was identified as 32 year old ‘M’. His amputation sentence was carried out after it was upheld by the Supreme Court and after his request for amnesty was turned down by the Judiciary’s Amnesty and Sentence Commutation Commission in the Yazd Central Prison. (Asre Iran state-run daily)

Iran murders political prisoner in Kermanshah prison
Oct. 24, 2010
Another defenseless political prisoner was killed by a prison gang working under orders of prison officials in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah.
Peiman Khanjari, 30, was from Qasre Shirin and had been detained in this prison for 9 years. He was suffering from several illnesses which he got in his time in prison. Khanjari was severely beaten by mercenaries of prison officials and was severely wounded. He died on October 11 because he was denied treatment.
Iranian regime attacks political prisoners through death row prisoners which have been chosen (for this job) after being threatened and bribed. These mercenaries attack and beat political prisoners to the point of death and after which the prison infirmary finishes their unfinished job by not treating the beaten prisoner which leads to his death.
Peiman Khanjari was severely mentally and physically tortured and pressured to give interviews on state-run television but refused to cooperate with the Iranian regime and was therefore hated by his interrogators. Prison officials had transferred him to a cellblock where ordinary prisoners, drug addicts and prisoners with deadly diseases were kept to put more pressure on him.
His father, mother, sister and wife were also arrested by the Intelligence Agency in Kermanshah and detained for three years.

Election protestor sentenced to prison and lashes
Oct. 24, 2010
According to reports, the 36th branch of the Tehran Court of Review confirmed the 33 month prison term and 75 lashes which was issued by a court of first instance for Seyed Navid Kamran who was arrested on Ashura (December 27, 2009).
After his sentence was confirmed by the court of review, he was summoned to the court in Evin Prison and was notified of his sentence.
According to reports, he was mistreated while his final sentence of 2 years and 9 months of prison and 75 lashes was announced to him.
He was charged with ‘assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing a crime against the security of the country’ and ‘disrupting public order’.

Political prisoner on hunger strike in protest to violation of rights
Oct. 24, 2010
According to reports, Mehdi Khazali has been on a hunger strike since Monday in protest to his arrest and being subjected to pressure in a solitary cell.
Khazali was summoned to the Evin Prison Revolutionary Court on October 13 and was then arrested and taken to a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in this prison. He was arrested for writing his views in his weblog.
According to an informed source he was arrested with the request of his father (a cleric in the Iranian regime) and has been under extreme pressure from his father not to write in his weblog. He cut off his contacts with his family because he refused to stop writing.
Khazali went on a hunger strike on October 18 in protest to the interrogations and inhumane pressure. An intelligence agency interrogator nicknamed Saiedi is in charge of his interrogations. After Khazali’s hunger strike, this interrogator took him to another cell and has placed an intelligence agent who pretends to be a prisoner in his cell so that he can mentally harass him. This method has been used from a long time ago by intelligence interrogators to force political prisoners to give in to their demands.


Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 25, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 719

Effect of Sanction

Trade Minister of Regime Announced the Establishment of Committee for Finding ways to Stand against the Sanctions
Oct. 23, 2010
Mehdi Ghafori, minister of trade, announced the establishment of committees for finding ways to stand against sanctions in foreign trades and exportations.
He said in Mehr news agency that organization for trade development and department of planning in trade ministry have meetings with exporters and in all their meetings the matter of how they can support the exporters in order to stand against sanctions is the main subject.
He also said: we are not going to extend sanctions together with international sanctions. Therefore a list of new suggestions and how to divert the sanctions have been published and is waiting for minister of trade prove.
Minister of trade, claimed that a special court will be formed soon in order to investigate the complaints of those who had overcome with problems due to sanctions, in order to withdraw their loss in future.
Reminding that recently some of economic experts of central bank of the regime have written a private letter to Khamenei, giving warnings that if sanctions continue, we will face with an economic breakdown.

Inconsistent claim of Pasdar Rahimi: we can go around the sanctions
Oct. 23, 2010
While the mullahs regime form an organization every day to overcome the sanctions, Rahimi, first deputy of Ahmadinejad claims that, today we could say that sanctions have die, all the ways that west have used for sanctions were found and we can go around them.
He claimed that: today despite the sanctions that our exchanges have been reduced but in compare to 6 months ago, our exchanges with Europe have been increased.
While Rahimi was saying the news of increase in exchanges, the imports were mainly gas, wheat and steel which were stopped due to sanctions.
He added: we have to increase our non-oil exports to its maximum to vanish the oil production exports. I want from exporters to do the exchanges in a right way so that not to become like those who want to damage the prestige of the exporters.

Concerns over consequences of scrapping subsidies 
Oct. 24, 2010
State-run media in Iran show the concerns of Iranian officials over the consequences, reactions from the people, explosive prices and chaos in the markets from cutting subsidies. The state-run Asre Iran daily wrote on October 20 that ‘the people even talk about the implementation of this law and the transfer of subsidies in cash while waiting in grocery lines’.
‘They tell each other to buy and keep everything that they need. One of the shoppers said that prices go up and down on a daily basis and that the people have a right to buy goods more than their needs. Another shopper believes that the people do not have enough money to buy and store goods even before this law is carried out.
The Trade Ministry is concerned of the morale of the market after this law is implemented which might cause disorder in the market’.
It is notable that some time ago in the entrance of the Tehran Bazaar, the people protested and expressed their anger towards the agents of the state-run radio and TV station and security forces were forced to quickly take them out of the scene. The radio and TV crew had asked questions about the people regarding the cutting of subsidies which had made the people angry.


Crack within Regime

Holding passports of some of prominent sonnies clergyman in Tehran Airport
Oct. 23, 2010
Security agents of Mullahs regime, held passports of some of prominent sonnie clergyman in Tehran Airport and prevented their journey to out of the country. Molana Abolqani Badri, the head of Zahedan religious education department, Abidollah, a master of this department and molana Osman Qalandarzehi, manager of Madinatol Olum Khash School was among these people.

Expelling a number of masters and members of scientific group of free university
Oct. 23, 2010
Mullah’s dictatorship expelled some of masters and members of scientific group of free universities, because of their objection with Mullahs regime.
Deputy of free universities in an interview with Mehr News Agency on 21st of October said: we notified them due to some reports we received, but they didn’t listen, so we expelled them.


Downfall

PMOI; the plight of the Iranian regime
Oct. 24, 2010
The Iranian regime once again admitted to the positive approach of the young people in Iran towards the PMOI in its television and called it a plight which is continuing until today.
Channel two of the Iranian regime repeated the labels against the PMOI and its founder and said, “We have a plight in this country which started in 1967 and 1967 and has gone on until today. The hypocrite movement, the so-called Mojahedin-e Khalq who we call them Monafeqin. This movement started with two or three of its founders named Mr. Hanif Nejad and Saied Mohsen. Hanif Nejad was from Tabriz and was religious while Saied Mohsen was from Zanjan and the son of a cleric. They both have religious backgrounds and entered the scene to fight against the regime of the Shah. Instead of understanding Islam, they write books which have a mixed content... and deviate our children. After the revolution this plight has gone on until today.

State-run website: Asia games refuse to sell tickets to Iranians
Oct. 24, 2010
The website which belongs to the former head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps cited the state of the Asian Games in China and wrote: “People from other countries do not have a problem in buying tickets but they do not sell us tickets directly. This problem only exists for Iranians”.
This website pointed to a regime businessman who lives in the city of Guang Jo and added, “He wants to see the opening ceremony of the games from up close but cannot. In the website which sells these tickets, the old building of the Olympics Committee has been recorded and Iranians have been asked to go that building to get tickets. Therefore they do not sell any tickets to Iranians”.


Resistance

Latest student news
Tehran
Oct. 23, 2010
According to reports in the first week of Aban (Persian month starting from October 23) there is to be a briefing in the Science and Industrial University for the Protection Department forces in this university.

Regime forces in universities have recently become active in the arts and national universities. Of their activities is spreading rumors in the university which are in the interests of Ahmadinejad. Of these rumors is that Ahmadinejad opposes the clerics and if he is put away from the government the system will become completely clerical.

According to reports from the Sush and Khazaneh and Edam Squares, on Friday flyers were distributed challenging Khamenei on Ashura (religious ceremony marking the death of the revered Shiite Imam, Imam Hossein son of Ali and grandson of Mohammad).

Students of the Teacher Training University clashed with security forces outside the entrance of this university on October 18 because of the fact that female students were harassed under the excuse of ‘improper veiling’.

Young people and students in Amir Abad and Fisher Abad wrote on the walls of public places to call for a protest for Student Day in Iran. Some of their messages were ‘Students fight while Khamenei trembles’ and ‘Don’t forget December 7 (Students Day)’, and ‘death to Khamenei’.

The head of Custom Bureau in Khorramshahr was Attacked
Oct. 23, 2010
Jahannews site (state-run) wrote: Mohmmad Bialayesh in the way from Abadan Airport to Khorramshahr, was attacked by some unknown people who had poniard and was injured; he was confined in a hospital.

Technical office of Basij was set on fire
Oct. 23, 2010
A technical office for printing and duplicating belonging to AmirAlmomenin Mosque in Zarinshahr was set on fire on Wednesday night. This office was used for printing leaflets and brochures of Basij. This office on Wednesday printed and distributed a long leaflet about Khamenei’s travel to Qom.
According to reports, possibly this false leaflet have caused anger among the freedom loving youths so they have done this job.
As some experts said, in this office, there were newest printing and duplicating machineries and this place was used to distribute lies of Basij.


Suppression

No news on condition of jailed student activist and sister of Ashraf residents
Oct. 23, 2010
According to reports, it has been eight days since Shabnam Madadzadeh contacted her family from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj and her family’s constant appeals to get information on their loved one has had no conclusion.
This jailed student issued a statement and condemned the arrest of one of her lawyers and the continued detention of jailed lawyer Mohammad Oliayi Fard.
She was taken to the Intelligence Unit and the office of the assistant head of Gohardasht Prison on October 14 and after being threatened with a transfer and pressured, she was banned from contacting or seeing her family. From that day on, no one has any information about her condition. There are unconfirmed reports that she has gone on hunger strike in protest to the inhumane limitations against her.

Human rights activist in critical condition denied treatment
Oct. 23, 2010
According to reports, the physical condition of human rights activist Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand is deteriorating but agents of the Intelligence Agency and Abbas Jafari Dolat Abadi prevent him from receiving treatment.
This human rights activist is suffering from severe heart and prostate problems and also has severe headaches and is in danger. His arteries have also been obstructed which previously led to a heart attack. Infirmary medics have requested that he be sent to a hospital outside of prison and have made their request in written form to the Sentence Implementation Unit of the Revolutionary Court.
Kaboudvand has also come down with a severe prostate problem in prison and has severe pain. Prison doctors have told him that the only way that his problem can be treated is with surgery. Unusual headaches also plague this political prisoner and he had a brain stroke from the severe pain in the past.
The prison infirmary prescribes strong sedatives to him instead of giving him serious treatment. These sedatives have caused problems for him. As a result of these unknown pills Kaboudvand is almost always asleep and has side effects such as dizzy spells, fatigue and sometimes he cannot distinguish his family members in visits.
His family has gone to see the prosecutor and to other centers several times and asked that he be transferred to a hospital outside of prison but officials have refused their request.


Other News

Torturer appointed as new head of notorious Evin Prison
Oct. 24, 2010 
A torturer named Hojatollah Souri was appointed as the new head of the notorious Evin Prison. According to the state-run Khabar Online website, Farajollah Sedaqat the former head of this prison will be the new assistant Secretary of the General Prison Administration in Tehran.



Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)