Health minister's advisor : some 60 injured were taken to Tehran state hospitals yesterday #Iranelection
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34 minutes ago
Monday 28 December 2009
Iran update
1140 GMT: The Regime Strikes Back (Cont.). The strategy of the Government is to “break” the movement — much as it appeared to do in June, in July, in August, in September — with arrests and disruption of communications.
EA sources confirm that Emad Baghi, the founder of the Association for Defense of Prisoners Rights, has been arrested. A reliable source writes that Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, leader of the banned Democratic Front of Iranian People, has been taken from his home.
The site Rah-e-Sabz is under sustained cyber-attack and, of course, Kalemeh has been hindered by the arrest of its editor (see 1040 GMT). It is also reported that Etemaad newspaper has been closed.
1040 GMT: The Regime Strikes Back. A pattern is emerging of the Iranian Government trying to regain the initiative through arrests last night and this morning. Alireza Beheshti Shirazi, the editor of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Kalemeh, has been detained.
Mir Hossein Mousavi میر حسین موسوی New wave of arrests of journalists and political figures started:According to ParlemanNews Emad-edin Baghi, journalist and human rights activist, as well as Ibrahim Yazdi, Secretary General of the Freedom Movement of Iran (reformist party) were arrested early this morning.
How Seyed Ali Mousavi Habibi was killed
Seyed Ali Moussavi Habibi, nephew of Mir Hossein Moussavi, was warned and threaten by phone calls to be assassinated for the past few days. His family were aware of all the treats and were worried about him. Today, Ashura day, Seyed Ali Moussavi Habibi was witnessing a 4WD Neissan Patrol car running over a few people in front of his house before being shot and killed with the same people in the car. After running over a few people 5 people get off the car and one of them comes very close to Seyed ali Moussavi and shoots him with a gun in a way that the bullet passes through his chest and comes out from his back. Then all 5 get on the car and run away. His brother in law takes Seyed Ali Moussavi to the Hospital but before they reach there he becomes a martyr. The government guards has gone to the hospital and said that they are going to take his body to the Kahrizak death investigation center. They have threatened and warned the family that they are not allowed to hold a funeral for him. ( there is the possibility that they would bury him over night so the family would not be able to have the funeral anymore.) Seyed Ali Moussavi, 43, has two children. His daughter is 17 and his son is 7. His Martyre brother Ebrahim Moussavi was killed in the war a couple of years ago. Myrtyre Moussavi family believe that this is a well-planned murder to put pressure on Mir Hossein Moussavi and his family and relatives. Since the coup government has stolen the body of the Ashura martyrs to avoid any funeral for them, Iranian public are going to hold the ceremony in the streets of Iran wherever possible. Mainly making the ashura ceremony about these martyrs.
Photo shows Seyed Ali Moussavi and his uncle, Mir Hossein Moussavi, The Friday before the Ghods day this year in Iran.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Sunday Ashuraye 1388 (27 December 2009)
Photo shows Seyed Ali Moussavi and his uncle, Mir Hossein Moussavi, The Friday before the Ghods day this year in Iran.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Sunday Ashuraye 1388 (27 December 2009)
نحوه به شهادت رسیدن سید علی موسوی حبیبی
سید علی موسوی حبیبی از چندین روز قبل تلفنی بارها تهدید به قتل شده است. خانواده او از این\ تهدیدها با خبر بوده اند و برایش ابراز نگرانی می کرده اند.
امروز "عاشورا" یک پاترول جلوی در خانه آن ها ابتدا چندین نفر را جلوی چشم سید علی موسوی زیر می گیرد، بعد از درون پاترول 5 نفر از نیروهای امنتی پیاده می شوند و یکی از آن ها از نزدیک ترین فاصله با کلت به سینه سید علی موسوی شلیک می کند طوری که گلوله از پشت او خارج می شود. بعد آن 5 نفر با پاترول سراسیمه می گریزند.
برادر زن سید علی او را به بیمارستان می رساند اما قبل از آن که سید علی موسوی به بیمارستان برسد به شهادت نائل می شود.
امشب نیروهای امنتی به بیمارستان رفته اند و گفته اند جسد سید علی موسوی را با خود به پزشکی قانونی کهریزک می بریم.
و خانواده شهید را تهدید کرده اند که حق برگزاری مراسم را ندارند. (احتمال آن وجود دارد که شبانه پیکر او را مخفیانه به خاک بسپارند تا مانع از مراسم تدفین او شوند.)
سید علی موسوی 43 سال داشته است و پدر 2 فرزند است. او صاحب یک دختر 17 ساله و یک پسر 7 ساله است. ابراهیم موسوی برادر او پیش از این در جنگ شهید شده است.
خانواده شهید موسوی معتقدند این یک ترور از قبل طراحی شده است برای فشار آوردن به مهندس میرحسین موسوی و فامیل او.
از آنجا که حکومت پیکر شهدای عاشورا را برای جلوگیری از مراسم تدفین ربوده است، مردم ایران در هر کجا مراسم بزرگداشت شهدای ربوده شده عاشورای امسال را در خیابان ها برگزار خواهند کرد. در همان محورهای عاشورا.
عکس حاضر مربوط است به سید علی موسوی و دایی اش (مهندس میرحسین موسوی) که روز جمعه یک هفته قبل از روز قدس امسال گرفته شده است.
محسن مخملباف
یکشنبه عاشورای 88
امروز "عاشورا" یک پاترول جلوی در خانه آن ها ابتدا چندین نفر را جلوی چشم سید علی موسوی زیر می گیرد، بعد از درون پاترول 5 نفر از نیروهای امنتی پیاده می شوند و یکی از آن ها از نزدیک ترین فاصله با کلت به سینه سید علی موسوی شلیک می کند طوری که گلوله از پشت او خارج می شود. بعد آن 5 نفر با پاترول سراسیمه می گریزند.
برادر زن سید علی او را به بیمارستان می رساند اما قبل از آن که سید علی موسوی به بیمارستان برسد به شهادت نائل می شود.
امشب نیروهای امنتی به بیمارستان رفته اند و گفته اند جسد سید علی موسوی را با خود به پزشکی قانونی کهریزک می بریم.
و خانواده شهید را تهدید کرده اند که حق برگزاری مراسم را ندارند. (احتمال آن وجود دارد که شبانه پیکر او را مخفیانه به خاک بسپارند تا مانع از مراسم تدفین او شوند.)
سید علی موسوی 43 سال داشته است و پدر 2 فرزند است. او صاحب یک دختر 17 ساله و یک پسر 7 ساله است. ابراهیم موسوی برادر او پیش از این در جنگ شهید شده است.
خانواده شهید موسوی معتقدند این یک ترور از قبل طراحی شده است برای فشار آوردن به مهندس میرحسین موسوی و فامیل او.
از آنجا که حکومت پیکر شهدای عاشورا را برای جلوگیری از مراسم تدفین ربوده است، مردم ایران در هر کجا مراسم بزرگداشت شهدای ربوده شده عاشورای امسال را در خیابان ها برگزار خواهند کرد. در همان محورهای عاشورا.
عکس حاضر مربوط است به سید علی موسوی و دایی اش (مهندس میرحسین موسوی) که روز جمعه یک هفته قبل از روز قدس امسال گرفته شده است.
محسن مخملباف
یکشنبه عاشورای 88
Final hours for Briton on China's death row
No one has told him that he is about to die. But unless last-minute pleas for his life prove successful, a Kentish Town taxi driver who suffers from mental illness will be shot dead by the Chinese authorities within 24 hours.
Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of five who has been accused of smuggling four kilos of heroin into China's western Xinjiang province in 2007, could become the first Briton to be executed in China in modern times, and the first EU national to face the death penalty there in 50 years. But he has not been informed that his execution by a bullet to the neck has been scheduled for 10.30 tomorrow morning. The Chinese government says the information is being withheld on "humanitarian grounds".
Mr Shaikh's friends and family say he suffers from bipolar disorder and was too ill to stand trial. His cousins Soohail and Nasir Shaikh have travelled to China to try and deliver pleas for mercy to President Hu Jintao. But so far those pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
In his petition, his cousin Mr Soohail says: "We plead for his life, asking that a full mental health evaluation be conducted to assess the impact of his mental illness, and that recognition be made that he is not as culpable as those who might, under Chinese law, be eligible for the death penalty."
Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the human rights charity Reprieve, has petitioned for his pardon, amid fears that Beijing is aggrieved by the international reaction to its stance at the Copenhagen climate talks – in particular that of Britain, which blamed China for the failure of the talks when Ed Miliband said it had "hijacked" discussions.
"I like to think the Chinese will show compassion but I don't know," Mr Stafford Smith said yesterday. "I think on one level China is aggravated by what happened at Copenhagen, but I hope it won't hold that against him."
China executes more people than all other countries put together but rarely executes Westerners. The Foreign Office says it has pressed hard for his release. Over the last six months, the UK has forcibly raised the case with senior Chinese officials 10 times to no effect. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the actor Stephen Fry are among many who have tried to intercede.
One of the key pieces of evidence in favour of the argument that Mr Shaikh is a sadly deluded figure, is a pop song he recorded called "Come Little Rabbit". Reprieve released the song in the hope that it would help convince the Chinese judiciary of his fragile mental state and halt his execution. Before he left for China, Mr Shaikh recorded the song, which he was convinced would bring peace to the world.
Among other possibly delusional moves, Mr Shaikh wrote emails to US and British officials calling himself a millionaire and a messiah. He moved to Poland several years ago, where he intended to set up an airline, which he was in no position to do. While in Warsaw, he wrote the song with a man named Carlos, who said he knew a producer in Kyrgyzstan who could help.
Mr Shaikh had no experience of singing in public before he headed to China, and campaigners say he was tricked into carrying the suitcase in Kyrgyzstan by the "producer", who was working for a criminal gang for whom he unwittingly carried drugs.
The UN special rapporteur on summary executions, Philip Alston, has condemned Beijing's stance. Insisting that there are "strong indications" Mr Shaikh suffers from mental illness, he called the prospective death penalty "a major step backwards for China".
Mr Shaikh's brother Akbar has written to the Chinese ambassador in London invoking the suffering of his mother. "She is a frail woman," he wrote, "and our family have not been able to break the news to her that she may lose her youngest child next week."
Working against Mr Shaikh are his insistence on holding his own defence, and his insistence during his trial that neither he nor his family have a history of mental illness. Witnesses say that his testimony was at times so absurd that even the judges were laughing.
The Chinese government says Mr Shaikh's conviction was carried out according to the country's laws. "Drug smuggling is a grave crime in international practice. During the entire process, the litigation rights and the relevant rights and interests of the defendant were fully respected and guaranteed. China has offered prompt consular information to the UK and arranged consular visits," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.
New Wave of Democracy & Freedom! 冲破堤坝和高墙, 让自由和民主之河流入中国, 伊朗, 阿富汗和加沙地区. 2010, 新一波民主浪潮! #Iran #ch4iran ##iranelection#china#RT
During today’s protests in Iran, as always, Twitter saw a surge of tweets from protests in Iran giving updates on the latest developments and using Twitter for coordination purposes.
However, this time around, people in China quickly joined Iranians in spreading the word and we witnessed an outpouring of tweets in Chinese reporting on the situation. ‘CN4Iran’ quickly became one of the top ten trending topics on twitter.
The people of China, who like Iranians, live under an oppressive regime are standing in solidarity with freedom fighters of Iran and drawing inspiration from them; one tweet read “Today we free Tehran, tomorrow we take on Beijing”.
Riot Guards Beg for Forgiveness
People have cornered these security forces. People ask them 'why do you do this to your people?' and the riot guards ask for forgiveness.
Translation:
'You are Yazid's - the Khalif against whom the Ashura uprising took place -forces', the woman shouts at them. One of the protesters then reassures them that they will not be beaten up, all they have to do is say Khameneii is a bastard. The woman can then be heard saying 'All you can do is kill your people is it?' and again they plead saying 'Please We are not killers'. PHOTOGRAPHS
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