(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 12, 2010
by Golnaz Esfandiari
The Iranian authorities in recent weeks have begun to release some of the former officials, activists, and intellectuals detained in last year’s post-election unrest.
Those released in recent days include former Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, activist Abdollah Momeni, and student leader Mehdi Arabshahi.
Those detainees [...]

(RadioZamaneh) | February 20, 2010
Iranian media report that Birgadier-General Azizollah Rajabzadeh, Head of Tehran Police retires after only six months at this post. He has reportedly been in the police service for 36 years and his valediction ceremony will take place tomorrow, Sunday.
Rajabzadeh took over from Ahmad-Reza Radan in the September of 2009. Prior to [...]

Channel 4 News (UK), January 22
Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran

Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world.
“I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever corner of the [...]

Another video from the Ashura protests.
This one shows peaceful mourners and protesters being charged and attacked by regime anti-riot police:

Yesterday we posted a video of a man on the ground, yelling in anguish about witnessing a police car run people over. This may or may not be video of the actual incident but it is proof of the viciousness of the so-called anti-riot police on Ashura, December 27, during the protests on that [...]

We have already shown the first of these videos in our Ashura Live-blog on December, 27, two days ago. But the two following videos together paint a more full picture of protesters confronting the regime police during Ashura, cornering them, and then humiliating them by forcing one of them to remove his uniform.
In [...]

The following video proves that the so-called police in Iran deliberately ran over protesters during Ashura, December 27, 2009, killing them.
An eye-witness, lying down on the ground, who may have also been injured screams in sheer agony: “They ran him over! Three times they ran him over with a police car! Oh [...]

Videos have surfaced purported to be from today’s protests in Iran, one day following the massive uprising on the tenth day of Moharram, an important day in the shia faith called Ashura. For extensive coverage of yesterdays events, including video, pictures, and commentary check out our live-blog from yesterday:
Live-blog coverage of Ashura Uprising in [...]

Ashura is over, and what a day it was. People turned out in at least the hundreds of thousands and faced down the regime. The regime started the day by trying to create a virtual martial law, security atmosphere. They occupied the major squares in Tehran and various cities throughout Iran. [...]

This is a live-blog report on clashes occurring in Iran on December 27, during the Shia mourning day of Ashura. As reports come in, they will be placed at the top of this page. To read this in chronological order it must be read from the bottom up.
Be sure to watch the videos. [...]