(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 11, 2010
Iranian Student Organization Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat called on the Head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani to release Ahmad Zeidabadi, Secretary-General of their organization.
In their letter they maintain that it is months since the required bail for Ahmad Zeidabadi was posted by his family and yet he remains in prison.
They [...]

(Rooz Online) | February 18, 2010
Arash Bahmani
Note from INN (not in the original article in Rooz Online): The Student Association, the Office to Strengthen Unity is one of Iran’s largest and strongest student organizations, and has played a significant role in organizing student protests since the rigged presidential elections in June of 2009.
Pressures continue on [...]

(RAHANA) | February 22, 2010
RAHANA – Majid Tavakolo was taken back to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran in prison uniform and with laceration marks above his right eyebrow. Tavakoli was not given any reason for his appearance before the court. He was detained in solitary confinement for 3 weeks before today’s court appearance.
According to Bamdad [...]

(RadioZamaneh) | February 19, 2010
Iranian authorities have sentenced student activist, Morteza Samiari to six years imprisonment after six weeks in Evin Prison. The executive member of Iran’s national student union was arrested in connection with an open and official invitation to meet with representatives of a European Parliamentary Committee in Tehran.
In his trial, Samiari maintained [...]

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(Newsweek)
Published Nov 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Nov 30, 2009
They warned him not to talk. When Maziar Bahari was finally freed after 118 days in an Iranian prison on phony espionage charges, he was instructed never to speak of what had happened in jail. If he told his story, his interrogator said, he would [...]

(RFE/RL)
November 20, 2009
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Iran has increased its pressure on student activists ahead of the national Student Day on December 7.
Throughout Iran a dozen students are reported to have been jailed this week, including eight student activists arrested in Tehran on November 19.
Those arrested include a senior member of Iran’s largest reformist student group, Abbas [...]

When we arrived, we were body searched and were beaten again at the court yard of the precinct. First they put us in a cage and insulted us in obscene language. Police officers in the precinct were not in charge. Plain clothes forces were beating us with baton through the bars and were laughing at us. The cage was small and we could not move. Then we were taken to another part of the precinct and from there they took us to the basement. We had to keep our heads low during the movements while they were beating us at the back of our heads. Once in the basement, our Ids were taken.”

Mohsen Rouholamini and Amir Javadifar died in Tehran’s Evin prison after being arrested at a demonstration this month. Rouholamini, the son of a prominent Iranian scientist close to the country’s political elite, died from meningitis after injuries believed to have been inflicted by his jailers went untreated.

The deaths prompted fears of a meningitis outbreak in Evin and other overcrowded detention centres where opposition figures, journalists and students are kept following last month’s disputed election. News of the deaths coincided with reports of injuries to other detainees.

Ayatollah Hashim Hashim-Zadeh Hareesi – a member of the Assembly of Experts – said today that people had started to distrust the system. He explained that whatever had happened after the election had caused people to become suspicious and that the government needed to take strides to restore people’s trust otherwise, distrust could result in further more severe problems.