Iran: Worsening Repression of Dissent as Election Approaches
amnesty international/progressive iranian-american committee
28-Feb-2009 (one comment)

In the last three months, Amnesty International has received reports of waves of arbitrary arrests and harassment directed particularly gainst...Iran’s religious and ethnic minority communities, students, trade unionists and women’s rights activists.[and]is aware of the apparent arbitrary arrest of, or other repressive measures taken against, over 220 individuals...newspapers have been closed down, and access to internet sites has been restricted, including some relating to human rights or which are operated by international broadcasters. 

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rosie is roxy is roshan

Equal opportunity repressor meet the groups!

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Sat Feb 28, 2009 09:28 AM PST

The report is a little before Amir Kabir, and anyway list of incidents and individuals is incomplete. I thought the most fun part was when they arreested all these Sunnis in their PRO-Gaza demonstration just to prove a point about Sunni organizing.


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