Protesters across globe decry Iran's abuses

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

LONDON - Protesters across the world on Saturday called on Iran to end its clampdown on opposition activists, demanding the release of hundreds rounded up during demonstrations against the country's disputed election.

Groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are backing a global day of action, with protests planned in more than 80 cities.

The protesters want Iranian authorities to release what they say are hundreds, or even thousands, of people detained during protests that followed the presidential election last month that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

Inside Iran, as well, Iranian police and pro-government militia attacked and scattered hundreds of protesters who had gathered in Tehran in response to the global demonstrations of solidarity, witnesses said.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32144072/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[MADem]

1. Your heart will break at the mother of a lad named Sohrab Arabi, who was

arrested, tortured and killed. At Evin, of course. Nineteen years old. His mother was in front of the prison for a month, asking people who were released if they had seen him. The authorities made the mother pay a fine for his release, and only then told her that her child was dead and to come fetch the body. They kept the money.

Bastards.

You can see his funeral on YOUTUBE. Heartbreaking.

[ohio2007]

2. Son of defeated Iran candidate ally killed: (in prison)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The son of an advisor to Iran's defeated conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaie was killed in a Tehran prison after being detained in post-election unrest, a reformist website said on Saturday.
"Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of Abdolhossein Ruholamini who was a top advisor to Mohsen Rezaie, was killed in Evin prison," the Mosharekat website said.It did not say how Ruholamini was killed or when, and the authorities were not immediately available to confirm the death or comment on the circumstances surrounding it.

Ruholamini was arrested in post election protests on July 9, and held in Evin, the website said


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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE56O0RO20090725

[ohio2007]

3. Iran accused of 'Zionist' tactics ..(calling the kettle black )

One of the defeated moderate candidates in Iran's presidential election, Mehdi Karroubi, has accused security forces of using harsher methods than Israel.

"The behaviour of Iran's security agents is worse than those of the Zionist in occupied Palestine," a statement on his website said.




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