Posted on 22 November 2009. Tags: Evin Prison, Featured, Forced Confession, Government Sanctioned Intimidation, IRGC, Islamic Republic, Maziar Bahari, Political Prisoners, Torture
(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 [...]
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Posted on 11 July 2009. Tags: 18th of Tir, Assembly of Experts, Bahai, Basij, Canadian Government, Clotilde Reiss, Cyprus, Evin Prison, G8, Green Brief, Hashemi Rafsanjani, International Relations, Iran, Iran Green Movement, Iran Guardian Council, Iran News, Iranian Embassy, Majles, Maziar Bahari, Mousavi, NiteOwl, Polytechnic University, Solitary Confinement, Twitter
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.
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Posted on 02 July 2009. Tags: Ahmad Khatami, Amnesty International, Arash Hejazi, Arrests, Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani, Ayatollah Taheri, Basij, BBC, Beheshte Zahra Cemetery, Canada, Censorship, China, Dictatorship, Egypt, European Union, Evin Prison, Facebook, Government Censorship, Green Brief, Haddi Ghaffari, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Interpol, Iran Elections, Iran Green Movement, Iran Majles, Iran Parliament, Iran Protests, Jordan, Khamenei, Kharasan, Laleh Park, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Maziar Bahari, Mehdi Karoubi, Montazeri, Mourning Mothers, Mousavi, Muslim Brotherhood, Neda, NewsWeek, Press TV, Qazvin, Qom, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Russia, Saeed Hajjarian, Shiraz, Tabriz, Torture
I’m NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar – twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter – and I’ve been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from [...]
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Posted on 01 July 2009. Tags: Basij, Censorship, Evin Prison, Forced Confession, Green Brief, Iran, Iran Guardian Council, Iran News, Isfahan, Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Maziar Bahari, Mehdi Karoubi, Mousavi, NiteOwl, Press TV, Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran, Tehran University, Twitter, Valiasr
Maziar Bahari was forced to confess at a press conference that the protests were pre-planned and organized from abroad. Bahari is an adroit Iranian-Canadian Journalist and filmmaker, who has written for Newsweek and the New Statesman. Meanwhile,the torture of university students continues in the Ministry of Interior. Some Iranians traveling to Iran for the holidays have been taken in for questioning directly at the airport as they tried to leave the country. They were questioned because of updated information on their Facebook accounts.
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