Challenges of Feb.20 uprising

Tehran- Feb.21, 2011
As regime of Khamenei is a religious fascism it had totally blocked the leak of any news to the outside world on the uprising of Feb. 20 in Iran.
People could not tape the scenes because regime was zoomed on cell phones. It even conducted body search in the streets to find the cell phones. It searched the bags of women and back packs of boys and girls. Even if somebody pushed his/her hand in the pocket they went to him/her and searched him/her. This is one of the reasons that people couldn’t tape the scene of Feb. 20 uprising as they should.
Cell phones worked like a weapon for the protesters.
Regime also disguised its Plainclothes under the face of students and sent them amongst the protesters or rushed into the scene amongst the protesting crowd with ambulances and when people started chanting anti-regime slogans its agents rushed out of the ambulance and arrested them.

Political prisoner under torture and pressure could be charged with’ enmity with God’

Isfahan- Feb. 20, 2011
According to reports, officials intend to try political prisoner Mohammad Nikbakht on charges of enmity with God in the Isfahan Revolutionary Court which carries the death sentence even as he has been in prison for the past five years.
This political prisoner was transferred from the public cellblock in Isfahan Prison to solitary cells in Cellblock AT run by the Intelligence Agency in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan in June 2009, where he was under brutal physical and mental torture. He has been under torture for the past 20 months in Cellblock AT. Some of the torture he is subjected to is being hung until he loses conscious, being whipped with cables and hoses, being tied to an iron pole for four days without food while he is denied the right to use the restroom and is deprived of sleep among other mental tortures…
His family has been banned from visits and has no information on his condition.
Mohammad Nikbakht’s father is detained in Golpaigan Prison and his mother has gone blind because of mental pressure by Intelligence Agency interrogators and from not being informed about her son’s condition in prison.
Notably, political prisoner Mohammad Nikbakht was arrested along with his wife and 3 year old child in June 2004 and was detained in a solitary cell run by the Intelligence Agency in Orumieh for three months where he was under brutal torture.
Nikbakht was sentenced to 8 years of prison and was later sentenced to an additional one year of prison for disclosing the tortures and crimes of the Intelligence Agency in prison.

Hussein Salemkar, Student of Scharif Industrial University detained

Tehran- Feb.21, 2011
Hussein Salemkar a student of Scharif Industrial University and a former member of Islamic Association of Khaje Nasir University was arrested on Feb. 15 one day after the uprising of Feb. 14 while exiting the university. His family is not informed of who arrested him or where he is kept.
He was a student of Mechanical Engineering in Master of Science at Khaje Nasir Univeristy and entered Scharif University in 2010 in the area of airspace.

New information about arrests on Feb. 14

Tehran- Feb.21, 2011
An eyewitness of Feb. 14 uprising who has been beaten in leg by batons: “19 of my friends at Tehran University were arrested.
No matter whoever I called they were either beaten and in bed at their homes or they were arrested.
About 100 of our students (Tehran University students) are arrested”.

Elderly woman dies in Shiraz after being struck with Bassij batons

Shiraz- Feb. 20, 2011
According to reports from Shiraz, security forces have brutally cracked down on dissents.
Some reports say that security forces and riot police opened fire on protesters and killed one person.
An elderly woman was also killed after being hit on the head with a baton by Bassij and Revolutionary Guards Forces on motorcycles.

Security forces shoot and kill protester in Tehran square

Tehran- Feb. 20, 2011
A few minutes after a protest gathering on Feb. 20, security and military forces in Hafte Tir Square opened fire on protesters. According to reports, as a result of the fired gun shots, one of the protesters was killed and a number of other people were wounded.
A protester on the scene said that the wounds of the shot protester were so severe that the person died after a few minutes in Hafte Tir Square. This is while the BBC quoted another eyewitness as saying that the sounds of gun shots were heard from around the Abbas Abad Street in Tehran.