9th of July
Thursday, July 9, 2009 11:05Today is the anniversary of 9th of July student uprising in Iran. The protests which were violently cracked down, many were arrested, some killed and some students disappeared. There are some protests planned for today in many cities while the Iranian “Police” is threatening people not to take part in “illegal demonstrations”. (see: Iran vows tough answer to marches)
Arresting journalists and activists continues as a few days ago a French university professor was detained on charges of espionage! (Read it in Reporters without borders website).
The Iranian authorities are using prolonged harsh interrogations, beatings, sleep deprivation, and threats of torture to extract false confessions from detainees arrested since the disputed June 12 presidential election, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. According to the authorities still about 500 people are in the arrest cells.
This is part of an article in Guardian about Khamenei’s son, who is in control of anti-protest militia:
Within Iran, Mojtaba is widely believed to control huge financial assets. There are claims on Iranian dissident websites that the current anti-British campaign in Tehran is motivated in part by Britain’s announcement on 18 June that it had frozen nearly £1bn in Iranian assets, in accordance with UN and EU sanctions. The frozen funds included a lot of Mojtaba’s money, it is claimed.
