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Nr : 11 News bulletin of the Iranian Progressive Youth 15-06-2010
Tehran Students Protest On Anniversary Of Dormitory Attack Source: PERSIAN LETTERSJune 16, 2010
Clashes at Tehran UniversitySource: StreetJournalistJune 14, 2010
Assault on weblogs continues: word-press filtered in IranSource: The Green Voice of FreedomJune 14, 2010
Over 900 People Arrested in Te-hran on June 12 Page 2
Amsterdam, NL bikes to support of the people of Iran Page 3
Opposition websites have posted several videos of a
reported protest at Tehran Univer-sity on June 14, the date of the first anniversary of an attack by secu-rity forces on a university dormito-ry in which several students were killed and many were injured.In this video, students chant “Al-lah Akbar” while holding pictures of some of their classmates who were killed in the crackdown that followed the disputed reelection of Iranian President Mahmud Ah-madinejad.Here, students chant in reaction to being videotaped by security agents: “Mercenary, how much were you paid for holding a cam-era?”
The Danesh-joonews web-site reports that several hundreds students took part in the pro-test, reportedly held under the watch of plain-clothes agents. The website, which covers de-velopments relat-ed to the student movement, says security forces were calling on guards to confiscate the identity cards of protesting students and hand them over.The website reports that clashes
broke out between students and security forces who wanted to de-tain two female protesters, who reportedly managed to escape with the help of their classmates.
On the anniversary of attack on University dormitory known
as “University BLVD” Tehran University students attempted to rally in front of technical school of Tehran University.
Besed on RAHANA’s report more than 500 students gathered to pro-test on the anniversary of the at-tack which killed 5 students and wounded dozens. clashes have been reported between students and Officers known as “University Security” and “Ansar Hezbollah”. This happened while students whom had rallied from Univer-sity BLVD located in Amir Abad
(North Kargar) were attacked by police officers.
It is worth noting, during these conflicts, for the first time anti-riot troops arrived with a van. Eyewit-ness news reports of arrest of sev-eral students.
The wordpress website has been filtered in Iran.
According to the Iranian website Weblog News, the weblog host-ing provider WordPress.com was filtered in Iran on Sunday after-noon (13 June). This means that all weblogs mounted on the website have become inaccessible by us-ers located in Iran. Following the blocking of many pages hosted by Iranian weblogs such as Blogfa, foreign based websites like word-press—a service provider based outside Iran—have become an al-ternative place for Iranian weblog writers to publish online content.
Tehran’s Prosecutor banned all in person visitations of political prisonersSource: StreetJournalistJune 14, 2010
Cleric Says Iran Should Produce Nuclear ArmsSource: The New York TimesJune 14, 2010
Over 900 People Arrested in Tehran on June 12Source: HRANAJune 13, 2010
Rahana reports: Based on the order of Tehran’s Prosecu-
tor, all families of political prison-ers can only visit their loved ones by phone or in visitation booths (behind glass windows and phone conversations) from now on. Per Kalameh Reports, although regu-lar prisoners are allowed to have in person visitation with their fam-ilies but political prisoners will not be granted such privilege. Here-after, the families are only allowed visitation in person with the pris-oners by a special order from the Prosecutor. It is being said that the reason for such measures is to control and prevent the state-ments and letters that has been coming out of the prisons.
The hard-line spiritual mentor of Iran’s president has made
a rare public call for producing the “special weapons” that are a mo-nopoly of a few nations, which represents a veiled reference to nuclear arms.The Associated Press on Monday obtained a copy of a book written by the spiritual adviser, Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, in which he wrote that Iran should not deprive itself of the right to produce these “special weapons.”
Iran’s government, as well as its clerical hierarchy, has repeatedly said that the country is not seek-ing to develop nuclear weapons, as the United States and other Western nations suspect.
The United Nations Security
Council last week imposed a fourth round of sanctions in re-sponse to Iran’s refusal to halt ura-nium enrichment, which it main-tains is only for a civilian nuclear energy program, but which could conceivably be used to produce material for nuclear weapons.
The new United Nations sanc-tions call for an asset freeze of 40 additional companies and organi-zations in Iran, including 22 in-volved in the nuclear program or developing ballistic missiles.
Mr. Mesbah-Yazdi’s hard-line views have had a strong effect on President Mahmoud Ahmadine-jad of Iran, who has shown him more respect than he has any oth-er senior cleric.
According to Human Right Activists News Agency
(HRANA), Over 900 people were arrested on the one year anniver-sary of protests against the fraudu-lent Iranian Presidential election. According to HRANA reporters, at least 300 of the detainees are women and their families are una-ware of their situation. Security forces prevented gatherings by families of the detainees by clos-ing “Shohada ye Jandarmery” and “Kargar Jonoubi” intersections lo-cated in front of the Tehran police headquarters. It is worth mention-ing that so far the family of at least 15 women detainees who did not have identification cards at hand were asked to submit their docu-ments. The families of the male
detainees were told by authorities to refer to the security police office today to inquire on the situation of their loved ones. This morning at 2:00am, 30 detainees ranging from 20-25 years old were driven with a van to Enghelab Square and released there.
Amsterdam, NL bikes to support of the people of Iran Source: 12june.orgJune 13, 2010
Activist gathered on June 12, 2010 to mark one-year since the disputed election. The event host, Iranian Progressive Youth, organized “Cycle 4 Iran” — a walk & bike-a-thon through Amsterdam. Participants
wore t-shirts demanding the release of Iran’s prisoners of conscience, attached posters to the back of their bikes, backpacks, shirts, painted themselves green, and biked alongside a mini-mobile billboard (also be-ing biked through the city!) highlighting Bahareh Hedayat. Other prisoners of conscience highlighted at the Netherlands event include the 7 Baha’i leaders and Mohammad Amin Abdollahi, who faces execution.
For more on this article please go to : http://iranpy.net/articles/736
For more Pictures related to the event please check: http://12june.org/?p=1070
Iran Ranks 104 out of 149 in Global PeaceIndex 2010 Source: PeyvandJune 12, 2010
Iranian political prisoners highlighted in JohannesburgSource: Radio Zamaneh June 12, 2010
The results of the Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2010
suggest that the world has be-come slightly less peaceful in the past year.
The GPI, which gauges ongo-ing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society and militarization in 149 countries, registered over-all increases in several indica-tors, including the likelihood of violent demonstrations and perceptions of criminality. In some nations, an intensifica-tion of conflicts and growing instability appears to be linked to the global economic down-turn in late 2008 and early 2009.
This is the fourth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI). It has been expanded to rank 149 independent states and updated with the latest-availa-ble figures and information for 2008-09. The index is com-posed of 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from re-spected sources, which com-bine internal and external fac-tors ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbor-ing countries and the level of respect for human rights.
The average score for the coun-tries surveyed in the 2010 GPI is 2.02 (based on a 1-5 scale), a slight rise (less at peace) com-pared with last year, when the average stood at 1.964.
With the opening of FIFA Soccer World Cup in South
Africa, “June 12” human rights group organized a campaign to draw attention to the plight of po-litical prisoners in Iran by putting pictures of some of the prisoners on city buses in Johannesburg.
Pictures of Behrouz Javid Tehra-ni, Mohammad Oliayaifard, Shiva Nazarahari and others were seen on city buses which are supposed to run in the city for at least a month.
Since the opening of the games coincided with the anniversary of the controversial presidential elec-tion in Iran that has led to wide-spread protests and fierce govern-ment crack down, the “June 12” group decided to appear at the international event in South Afri-
ca with banners in support of the growing number of political pris-oners languishing in Islamic Re-public prisons.
To draw attention to “human rights violations in Iran”, the group has also prepared a video clip of their presence in Johannesburg which was posted on You Tube.The “June 12” group is planning to stage demonstrations in front of the Islamic Republic embassies in 87 cities across the globe on the anniversary of June 12 elections of 2009.
Iranian authorities have arrested scores of protesters in the past year to quell the turmoil which has gripped the country since the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last June.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Confronted by Protesters in DublinSource: Associated PressJune 10, 2010
Former elite officers in Revolutionary Guard reveal increasing tensions in Iran regimeSource: GuardianJune 11, 2010
DUBLIN (AP) – Iranian For-eign Minister Manouchehr
Mottaki narrowly avoided being pelted with eggs during a Dub-lin appearance overshadowed by angry clashes with several Iranian dissidents.Mottaki’s security guards roughed up two protesters who interrupt-ed his appearance Wednesday at Dublin’s Institute of International and European Affairs. Both men – who shouted that Mottaki repre-sented terrorism and dictatorship – were kicked and pushed down-stairs but not seriously injured.Outside, several protesters hurled
eggs and kicked at Mottaki’s car as he departed. Guards shielded Mottaki with an umbrella. Irish po-lice arrested three protesters.Mottaki de-nounced Wednes-day’s U.N. Secu-rity Council vote to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
A two-month investigation by Guardian Films and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals how hundreds of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are defecting - in protest at what they see as a
‘betrayal’ by the Iranian government
Plesae watch the full video at :http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jun/11/iran-revolutionary-guard-defectors
