Iranian Dissidents

[9/10/06 - 9/16/06]

• World Politics Watch published it most recent Iran Watch: Activists Arrested, Execution Scheduled. Under-reported translations of Iranian news reports.
  

[9/03/06 - 8/09/06]

• Iran Press News, World Politics Watch reported that 33 days after the death of activist Akbar Mohammadi, another political prisoner dies in Iranian prison, Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi.
• Amnesty International expressed its deep concern at the death of political prisoner Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi in Gohar Dasht Prison near Tehran. The death in custody is the second to occur in Iranian prisons in recent weeks.
  

[8/27/06 - 9/02/06]

• The Washington Post reported that Iran released on bail liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the U.S. to overthrow the government.
• Ottawa Citizen reported that an Iranian-Canadian man, Ramin Jahanbegloo, held in a Tehran prison for four months without charges was released on bail, but news of his freedom was tempered by reports of a supposed confession made to national media shortly after his release.
• The International Herald Tribune reported that the State Department accused Iran on Friday of detaining a number of student activists and demanded their release. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement "The Iranian regime's continued efforts to suppress freedom of speech and assembly make clear the hollowness of professed openness to peaceful dialogue and debate."
  

[8/20/06 - 8/26/06]

• Rooz Online reported that imprisoned Iranian student leader Ahmad Batebi's life is in danger, according to his doctor. A full report of his condition.
• Iran Press News reported that a young Iranian man was imprisoned for his connection to political parties and teenager was shot in Kurdistan.
• Iran Press News published a news update on the status of Haydar-Gholi Soltani, a retired lawyer who was arrested in mid-September 2005 is now being detained in Evin prison.
• Iran Press News provided a report on the status of political prisoners in Azerbaijan where approximately 650 people have been registered on the Tabriz prison computer database in connection with recent protests.
• Helpnazanin.com asked people to sign their petition calling for the release of Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi who was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her.
• Rooz Online reported that 98 Court summons, temporary detention, disregard for prisoner conditions, closure of newspapers, heavy sentences, forced confessions are only some of the developments in Iran that speak of more human rights violations.
• Iran Press News reported the murder of a young man by regime’s police forces in Piranshahr.
• Iran Press News reported the disappearance of a teacher and human right activist in the town of Kamyaran.
• Rooz Online reported that as the news of Akbar Mohammadi’s death, and the condition of other political prisoners such as Ahmad Batebi, Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini, and Ramin Jahanbegloo, among many others, has created a wave of concern. The condition of other political prisoners in the provinces and smaller towns is as bad.
  

[8/13/06 - 8/19/06]

• Los Angeles Times reported that in LA, Ganji affirmed Israel's right to statehood,s vow to destroy the Jewish state.
• Iran Press News reported that on July 9th on the 7th anniversary ceremonies of the, 1999 Tehran University uprisings, the Islamic regime, attacked and arrested a few of our friends who had gathered in Tehran; they were transferred to an unknown location and they are still in detention.
• Rooz Online reported that Ramin Jahanbegloo’s ‘confessions about his so called role in the velvet revolution of Iran are going to be soon broadcast on national television in Iran.
• Iran Press News reported that the Mohammadi family has demanded that the Islamic regime identify all those who had a hand in the murder of their son.
  

[8/06/06 - 8/12/06]

• Rooz Online published a report on the interrogation of Ramin Jahanbegloo and the bizarre accusations that he had confessed responsibility for creating a large network known as ‘web’ to gather classified information on political, social, cultural and economic groups and activists.” These agents are after deceiving officials, particularly clerics, who lack the simplest knowledge about common Internet and cyberspace activities.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian student leader, Ahmad Batebi is now being detained and if new charges are not leveled against him, he will only have to complete the nine years remaining on his original prison sentence in Evin prison.
• Radio Free Europe reported that imprisoned Mansoor Osanloo, the president of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran Bus Company, a prominent leader of Iran's workers movement, was released today from jail on bail after having spent seven months in prison.
• Rooz Online published excerpts of a letter by Iranian dissident Akbar Mohammadi written days before his murder in prison. In the letter he warned: "I believe authorities are preparing to humiliate and kill me..."
• Iran Watch Canada reported on Mr. Ahmad Batebi's 12th day of his hunger strike in Evin prison.
• Time Magazine reported that Akbar Ganji went to Hollywood to gain support for his "reformist movement" where Ganji said: "The U.S. has to stop its one-sided support of Israel."
• Bridget Johnson, World Politics Watch reported on how Iran's regime is attempting to snuff out the stars of the Iranian opposition, with an update on Ahmad Batebi. Photo.
  

[7/30/06 - 8/05/06]

• Iran Press News reported that a beloved student leader, Akbar Mohammadi, died as a result of brutal torture by Islamic regimes' judiciary at the infamous Evin Prison. Mohammadi had just been returned to his cell in ward 350 after a brutal torture session. He was on his 9th day of a hunger strike. He gave his life for freedom. Photos.
• Reza Pahlavi released a statement on the murder of jailed dissident Akbar Mohammadi.
• Iran Press News reported that the Islamic Republic has now specifically announced that should their nuclear dossier be voted for referral by the United Nations Security all political prisoners, whether on furlough or in prison, will be summarily executed.
• Yahoo News reported that the United States harshly condemned what it called Iran's "severe repression of dissidents" following the death of a jailed student activist, Akbar Mohammadi.
• Rooz Online reported more on the death of Akbar Mohammadi when his father, who has another son (Manoutchehr Mohammadi) behind bars as well, told Radio Farda that he had heard from other prisoners that prison guards had tried to beat Akbar out of his hunger strike.
• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that the younger sister of Iranian student activist Akbar Mohammadi says her brother was tortured and then murdered at Iran's Evin's prison this past weekend. "I received two phone calls on Sunday from fellow inmates who told me, ‘Akbar was poisoned.'"
• SOSIran published a translation of a report on the condition of the body of the Iranian dissident. Graphic language.
• Iran Press News published photos of the funeral of Iranian dissident Akbar Mohammadi.
  

[7/23/06 - 7/29/06]

• BBC News reported that Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji declined to meet White House officials during a visit to the US.
• Kianoosh Sanjari reported that student leader Ahmad Batebi, was arrested in front of his home in Tehran by plain clothes secret service agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was arrested in 1999 because of the humiliation the regime felt after this young man's photo appears on the cover of the Economist and has become a symbol of the Iranian student movement. Photo.
• Radio Free Europe published an interview with Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji.
  

[7/16/06 - 7/22/06]

• Rooz Online published the speech of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji when he received the 2006 international Aubuchon award to his journalistic work in Iran.
• Rooz Online reported that in response to Akbar Ganji's call for a three-day hunger strike for the release of political prisoners in Iran, Iranians in Iran and 12 other cities supported his appeal.
• Rooz Online reported on Akbar Ganji’s call for a world-wide 3-day hunger strike which has created a global network linked to Tehran and his message was an internal regime change.
  

[7/09/06 - 7/15/06]

• Free-Political-Prisoners.net released a statement and petition in support of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji's demand of the release of three jailed Iranian dissidents and asked for Western supporters to join him in a hunger strike (July 15-17) if the regime fails to release these prisoners.
• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that Iran's most famous opposition figure, Akbar Ganji, is due to arrive in New York on Saturday and attend a meeting with the leftist MIT political science professor Noam Chomsky. But Mr. Ganji will not be meeting with any American government officials.
• The Harvard Crimson reported that Iranian-Canadian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, arrested on unspecified charges in Tehran this past April, is getting some help from his former Harvard colleagues — several of whom are petitioning for his release.
• Belfast Telegraph reported Akbar Ganji, who will launch a campaign in London on Friday for the release of all Iranian political prisoners.
• Eli Lake, The New York Sun published an interview with Akbar Ganji, on the eve of his first visit to America. Iran's leading dissident says Iran's democracy movement will reject American financial assistance, and that he would meet with American officials only to urge them not to bomb his country.
• Newsweek published an interview with Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji.
  

[7/02/06 - 7/08/06]

• Radio Free Europe reported that dissident Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has threatened to organize a hunger-strike "movement" in several Western cities if the government does not release three Iranian political prisoners and has called on all freedom-loving Iranians and human rights defenders to join him.

[6/25/06 - 7/01/06]

• Rooz Online reported Iran’s best-known imprisoned dissident journalist, Akbar Ganji, released last month who is touring Europe said Islamic democracy made no sense.

[6/18/06 - 6/24/06]

• Rooz Online reported that Akbar Ganji, the imprisoned Iranian journalist who was released last month and who is currently on a European trip said that there is absolutely no possibility to reform the Iranian system under its legal structure. "I agree with civil disobedience. This is a method that is used all over the world. But in Iran civil disobedience bears a very high price. We need the spiritual support of Europe and the world."
• Rooz Online reported that after the arrest of two student activists from Amir Kabir University which has led to student protests and sit-ins, intelligence agencies of Iran are planning harsher treatment of students.
• Rooz Online reported that with the increase in pressure on the regime's critics and the growing detentions in recent months, many fear the return of the old television confessions.
• Radio Free Europe reported that leading Iranian women's rights activists have been charged with acting "against national security" by calling for an "illegal" gathering to promote equal rights and publishing related statements.
• Rooz Online reported that the famed Iranian imprisoned journalist Akbar Ganji declared in Paris said, “There is absolutely no consensus on the nuclear issue in Iran and everything that is attributed to be ‘national’ in this regard is merely ideological propaganda.”
  

[6/04/06 - 6/10/06]

• Moscow Times reported that Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji arrived in Moscow to receive this year's Golden Pen of Freedom award.
• Payvand published the full text of Akbar Ganji's 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom Acceptance Speech.
• Rooz Online reported on Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji's acceptance speech in Moscow where he received the prestigious Golden Pen of Freedom award.
• Radio Free Europe reported that Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji continued his current international tour and said that he is determined to keep up his struggle for "democracy and human rights."
• Adnkronos International reported that Iranian journalist Iraj Jamshidi, editor in chief of financial daily Asia, has been awarded the International Freedom Prize of the city of Milan.
• Nora Boustany, The Washington Post reported on the famous Iranian poet Simin Behbahani and her support for human rights in Iran describing her as a Poet Who 'Never Sold Her Pen or Soul.'
• Rooz Online reported on the absurd praise of Ahmadinejad by some in Iran.
  

[5/28/06 - 6/03/06]

• Reporters Without Borders called for the “immediate release” of two Azeri journalists, Amin Movahedi and Orouj Amiri.
• The Price of Freedom reported that Abed Tavanche an Iranian dissident blogger in Iran has supposedly been arrested.
• Rooz Online reported that Mansour Osanloo, the head of Iran’s bus syndicate is still in prison and refusing to make fake concessions or repent as requested by his interrogators.
• Reporters Without Borders said it was “very worried” about Abed Tavanchech, a blogger and student at Tehran’s Amirkabir polytechnic university, who has been missing since 26 May and may well have been arrested after posting photos and reports about the demonstrations.
• Reuters reported that Canada has asked Iran to either charge or release prominent philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo.
  

[5/21/06 - 5/27/06]

• Times Online on the escape from Iran of Iranian student activist Amir Abbas Fakhravar who was held for 8 months in solitary confinement in Iran. He said he was in Washington to spread one message only: “Regime change.” Photo.
• The New York Times reported that the Iranian press accused Mr. Jahanbegloo, the Iranian philosopher and writer who has been detained for three weeks without formal charges, is "an element of the United States who was part of the plot to overthrow the regime under the guise of intellectual work by peaceful means."
• Free Ganji published Akbar Ganji's latest: Message for the Celebration Iran's dissident poet: Ms. Simin Behbahani.
• Reuters reported that Iranian journalist and political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been awarded the annual Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA).
• The Telegraph interviewed Iranian dissident, Roya Tolouee, who told of the assaults and threats against her and her children during 66 Days in an Iranian jail.
  

[5/07/06 - 5/13/06]

• Rooz Online reported that Iranian intellectual Jahanbegloo is being kept at ward 209 of Evin and according to press accounts he has already provided tens of pages of confessions. Human Rights Watch said it is likely that he has been subjected to torture and forced to provide fake confessions.
  

[4/30/06 - 5/06/06]

• Iran Press News confirmed a 3-year prison sentence for blogger and ex-editor of Gilan’eh Emrooz.

[4/23/06 - 4/29/06]

• Rooz Online reported on the increase of executions by the "Compassionate Government" of Ahmadinejad.
• Iran Press News republished a statement by political prisoners in Iran who condemned, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, saying that her interviews, speeches, articles and reports have taken on a very conservative tone.
  

[4/16/06 - 4/22/06]

• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that Iran's judiciary has summoned dissident leader Akbar Ganji back to Evin Prison, but so far Mr. Ganji has refused to obey the requests.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian Dissidents are saying: "No! We do not want nuclear energy."
• Iran Press News reported that prison officials have threatened political prisoner, Valiollah-Fayz Mahdavi with execution should he communicate reports about the prison conditions.
• Iran Press News reported that Mansour Osanlou, director of the bus drivers union of greater Tehran, was transferred from solitary incarceration, after 4 months.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian journalist Ejlal Ghavami will go on trial on April 22nd for insulting the leadership, taking action against national security, connection with various anti-regime fronts.
  

[4/09/06 - 4/15/06]

• Iran Press News reported that Iranian blogger, Afshin Zareyi, will go on trial after 13 months in prison.
• Iran Press News reported that the trial of Dr. Farzad Hamidi was postponed.
• Iran Press News reported the latest news on Iranian political prisoners.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian blogger Mojtaba Samiinejad has been sentenced to 10 months in prison.
  

[4/02/06 -4/08/06]

• ReleaseGanji reported that Akbar Ganji rejected the claim that he was going to keep silent after his release and announced: I won't keep quiet. He added that none of their demands will be achieved without paying a price.
• Rooz Online reported that fake charges are being brought against imprisoned human rights defenders in Kurdish provinces.
• Amnesty International called for urgent action in support of eight women and children held solely in an attempt to force their husbands and fathers to give themselves up to the Iranian authorities.
• Iran Press News reported that a bus drivers’ union member has gone on a hunger strike in prison to protest his re-arrest.
• Iran Press News reported that the editors of two more Iranian publications have been charged with printing "lies, material that agitates public opinion and stirring trouble".
• Iran Press News reported on still more innocent journalists have been sentenced to prison for the charges are insulting the founder of the Islamic Revolution and taking action against the security of the order of the ruling regime.
  

[3/26/06 -4/01/06]

• Rooz Online reported that while Iranians around the world celebrated the Persian New Year its prisons are full of political and religious dissidents.
• Amnesty International reported on the imminent execution of Fatemeh Haghighat-Pajouh.
  

[3/19/06 -3/25/06]

• Iran Press News reported that families and friends of political prisoners gathered in front of Evin and Rejaiishahr prisons to celebrate Norooz with their loved ones. Photos.
• The Wall Street Journal in an editorial said that democratic revolutions tend to have iconic figures that become emblems of the suffering of their people and that in Iran; the iconic figure is Akbar Ganji.
  

[3/12/06 -3/18/06]

• Iran Press News reported that despite Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji's having served his six year prison sentence this week, his release has been denied.
• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that Akbar Ganji must stay in prison because he is likely to face additional charges.
• Iran Press News reported on various dissidents inside of Iran including Mehran Kowsari who last year was imprisoned for being Bahaii.
• BBC News reported that Iran's most prominent dissident journalist Akbar Ganji has been freed from jail after five years and is now at home.
• The Hindu reported that Ganji said: "My views have not changed at all. Jail and pressures never forced me to change my views. Today, I'm more determined to say what I said six years ago."
• Seattle PI reported "My husband is so weak physically now. He is just 108 pounds. But I'm happy he is back home," his wife said. "He needs rest, please don't put too many questions to him. He's not going to be so outspoken." "No, I'm more radical than before," Ganji interrupted.
• Photos of Ganji at home.
  

[3/05/06 -3/11/06]

• Rooz Online reported that a senior Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps commander revealed plans to detain and extract fake confessions from reformers.
• Iran Press News provided an update on Iranian blogger and political prisoner, Mojtaba Samii-nejad who is being detained at Ghezel-hesor prison.
• Iran Press News reported that a 14 year old boy arrested, flogged and imprisoned for "demonstrating."
• Rooz Online reported that Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji's Attorney was finally released from prison on a $1 million bail.
• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that one of the lawyers representing Iranian opposition leader and journalist Akbar Ganji was released from prison last weekend.
• Iran Watch Canada is counting down the release of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji from prison, with just 8 days to go (March 17th).
  

[2/27/06 -3/04/06]

• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that Iranian dissident and opposition leader Akbar Ganji is scheduled to be released from Evin Prison in about 20 days, as of Tuesday.
• Iran Press News reported that the Iranian regime's agents in Iranian Kurdistan are threatening to slaughter political activists.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian political prisoners condemned the Nobel Prize winning Shirin Ebadi for not standing with them in their struggle.
• Iran Press News reported that imprisoned journalist; Mostafa Jowkar was released from prison.
  

[2/20/06 -2/26/06]

• Iran Press News reported that Elham Afroutan's father is saying his daughter has not committed suicide and spoke to him last Friday, despite government reports to the contrary.
• Iran Press News reported that political prisoner journalist, Mostafa Jowkar who was transferred to a hospital due to complications from heart disease, was returned to Evin prison without proper medical care.
• Iran Press News reported that 11 regime murderers were present at the despicable execution of political prisoner, Hodjat Zamani.
• Iran Press News reported that dissident Akbar Ganji's wife said the regime is trying to keep him off of the public's mind. (Ganji prison sentence is supposed to be completed in less than a month).
• Iran Press News produced a petition asking for the Iranian regime to spare the life of political prisoner Saeed Masouri.
• Iran Press News reported that two Iranian dissidents, Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi and Asad Shaqaqi, said: "Within the last 24 hours we have been told that we will kill ourselves either with knives or with cleaning liquid!"
  

[2/13/06 -2/19/06]

• National Review Online published a conversation with Iranian Dissident Fakhravar.
• Iran Press News reported that a political prisoner in danger of being executed in Rejaiishahr prison in Tehran suburb of Karadj.
• Iran Press News reported that an Iraqi cleric was spurred by the Islamic regime to misrepresent dissident Ayatollah Montazeri's mental health.
• Radio Free Europe reported that Iranian opposition figure Hojat Zamani has been executed.
• Reporters Without Borders expressed concern over reports that imprisoned journalist Elham Afrotan was in a coma after a suicide attempt.
• Iran Press News also reported on Ehlam Afroutan adding that the regime's interrogators tortured and gang-raped her before she slipped into a coma and is said to have died.
  

[2/06/06 -2/12/06]

• Rooz Online reported that Akbar Ganji's imprisoned attorney, Soltani, is still in legal limbo since his court dossier is reportedly "lost".... adding that Ganji is supposed to be released from prison in 40 days.
• Rooz Online reported on new accusations being leveled against Web-bloggers in Iran.
  

[1/23/06 -1/29/06]

• ReleaseGanji.net published a letter from the wife of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji on the 2100th day of his imprisonment.
• Iran Press News reported that in the second round of hearings sentenced journalist and blogger, Arash Cigarchi to 3 years in prison for insulting Khamnei, the supreme leader.
  

[1/16/06 -1/07/22]

• Iran Press News reported that a political activist from the town of Oshnoviyeh was returned to prison for another 3-year sentence.
• Iran Press News reported that the Islamic regime sentenced a German hostage to 18 months in prison.
• Robert Mayer, The Publis Pundit reported that a prominent Iranian feminist activist and freedom fighter, Maloos Radnia, passed away yesterday in Tehran.

[1/01/06 -1/07/06]

• Servihoo.com reported that the wife of jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji said that her husband's health has deteriorated after four months in solitary confinement.
• Iran Press News published an update on Akbar Ganji. A letter from his wife.
• Marzeporgohar published a profile on Behrouz Javid Tehrani, a story of a political prisoner.
• Iran Press News reported that a human rights activist, Qafoor Mohammadi, was imprisoned in Mahabad, Province of Kurdistan.
• Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune reported on the death of Iranian prisoner, Dhabihu'llah Mahrami, who was repeatedly asked to disavow his Baha'i Faith which he refused to do.
  

[12/11-12/17]

• Iran Press Newsreported that political prisoner Mehrdad Lohrasbi suffers grave illness in the horrific Rejaiishahr prison.
• Shervin Omidvar, RooZ Online reported that Abdol-Fattah Soltani the lawyer defending a group of student activists will remain behind bars.
  

[12/04-12/10]

• National Review Online published a message from Iran's underground. A conversation with Amir Abbas Fakhravar, hunted by the regime.
• Iran Press News published a letter from imprisoned political activist, Arjang Davoodi, currently held in the medieval prison of Bandar Abbass.
• Iran Press News reported that the deputy of student affairs of regime's Ministry of Science said: "We have no student political prisoners!"
• Iran Press News reported that, under international pressure, several political prisoners were transferred to Evin prison.
• Iran Press News reported that political prisoners are going on a hunger strike in solidarity with the student freedom fighters and protesting activists.
• Amnesty International reported that more members of Iran's Arab minority, were reportedly arrested on 6 November, and are now believed to be held incommunicado.
• Rooz Online reported that it has been 92 days since Akbar Ganji was moved into a solidarity confinement cell. An interview with his wife.
• Iran Focus reported that students were arrested during protests in Iran capital.
• The Economist reported that Akbar Ganji, "Iran's most outstanding dissident, is in renewed danger" and that he refuses to give in.
• Rooz Online published an interview with Ali Afshari a former member of the ruling council of the Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat (DTV) student organization.
  

[11/27-12/03]

• Iran Press News reported that the regime’s high tribunal affirmed the sentences of 3 activists.
• Iran Press News published a photo of a political prisoner chained to his hospital bed.
• Bill Samii and Fatemeh Aman, Radio Free Europe reported on how Iran is breaking the will of political prisoners.
• Gooya news reported that the wife of Akbar Ganji said: I think something might have happened that they have cancelled our visiting with Ganji !
• The Foreign Press Association reported that Akbar Ganji was a recipient of the "Dialogue of Cultures" Award.
• Rooz Online reported on yet another unlawful imprisonment.
  

[11/20-11/26]

• Iran Press News reported on several bloggers and political prisoners being framed and threatened by regime.
• Iran Press News reported on the sentencing of 3 youths described as “unruly”, to prison and flogging.
• ET, View from Iran found an interesting conversation with Nasser Zarafshan, Ganji's attorney, published in Germany, under the title: Tehran’s reformist mask has come off.
• Iran Press News reported that a group of the Evin prison guards stormed ward 350 of the prison and beating the prisoners confiscated their books, tapes and personal belongings.
• Iran Press News reported that a Kurdish journalist sewed his mouth up in the Marivaan Prison in protest.
• The Middle East Quarterly reported on the Iranian security forces arrest of 28-year-old Iranian journalist and weblogger Arash Sigarchi and other bloggers.
• Iran Press News reported the trial of Abdollah Nasseri, ex-general manager of the other regime-run news agency IRNA will begin on Saturday, Nov. 26th. He has been charged with "“intent to stir up public opinion through publication"”.
• Curt, The Committee to Protect Bloggers reported that blogger Ahmad Seyyed Saraj has escaped Iran to the Turkish city of Van and needs our help.
  

[11/13-11/19]

• Rooz Online published the letter political activists sent to the head of Iran’s Judiciary to impartially review Akbar Ganji's case.
• Iran Press News published a translation of letter by Iranian prisoners asking for international help.
• Iran Press News reported that the spokesman for the regime's judiciary said: "Ganji has a prison sentence and a few months remain on his sentence; it's not like if foreign countries demand his release, that we would comply!"
• Morteza Abdolalian, Iran Watch Canada reported that Akbar Ganji has been awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom.
• Laura Secor, The New Yorker reported on Iran’s new generation of dissidents and the collapse of the nation’s reformist movement.
• Khaleej Times reported that Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday she has been repeatedly threatened with death.
• ABC News reported that Iran's judiciary said it would ask Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to pardon 18 pro-reform students.
• Iran Press News reported that blogger Mojtaba Saminejad, twenty-five year old university student in Iran has been transferred to ward 30 where 30 Afghanis who have all been charged with murder.
• Farhad Mahdavi, Rooz Online wonders how is Ganji going to survive without food and water?
  

[11/06-11/12]

• Iran Press News reported that Massoud Mojiri, a journalist and student activist of the university of Esfahan was summoned to court in Esfahan to answer to charges of "printing corrupting material and action against the security of the regime".

[10/30-11/05]

• Iran Press News reported that Ahmad-Reza Shiri, Journalist and blogger from Mash'had who had been arrested and imprisoned temporarily, awaiting trial.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian dissident Payman Peeraan's new trial begins.
• Iran Press News published a horrific letter of political prisoner Mehrdad Lohrasbi.
• Rooz Online reported on Ganji's wife's latest letter to the Head of Iran's Judiciary.
• Iran Press News reported that an Iranian court sentenced 6 protesting workers who have not received their wages for more than 13 months to 4 months in prison and 20 lashes each. The workers were charged with “disturbing public order.”
• Kuwait News Agency reported that the U.S. called for the immediate release of jailed Iranian activist, Akbar Ganji.
• Eli Lake, The NY Sun reported that State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack said: The United States calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Akbar Ganji, as well as his immediate access to medical assistance and legal representation.
  

[10/16-10/22]

• Morteza Abdolalian, Iran Watch Canada reported that Ganji was finally permitted to meet with his defense lawyer in prison.
• Iran Press News reported that blogger, Omid Sheikhaan was sentenced to prison but first 2 lashes!
• Iran Press News reported on the hearing for the investigation of charges of "Dereliction" against a student of the Shareef Industrial University completely committed to Democracy.
• Adnkronos International reported that more journalists in Iran are falling victim to Iran's war on the media.
• Noticias.info said Reporters Without Borders today condemned the 18-month prison sentence that was passed on Mohammad Sedigh Kabovand.
• Iran Press News reported that a group of journalists were first verbally abused and then physically intimidated by Ahmadinejad's security detail.
• Iran Press News reported that Seyed Ahmad Seyed Seraajee imprisoned blogger who is currently being detained at the Tabriz prison, will receive 30 lashes.
• The Committee to Protect Bloggers reported that Omid Sheikhan has been sentenced by the Iranian court to one year in prison and 124 lashes.
  

[10/09-10/15]

• Iran Press News reported that blogger, Omid Sheikhaan's trial began on Saturday. He was originally charged with blogging and internet related activities, the sentence is being passed on charges completely unrelated to those issues.
• Iran Press News reported that the trial of Dr. Farzad Hamidi reopened Saturday. He is charged with "Action Against National Security."
• Iran Press News reported that the trial against student human rights activist Davoud Jafarpour will begin on December 14th, 2005. He has been charged with "Action Against National Security."
• Iran Press News reported that the popular and diligent activist Kianoosh Sanjari has been temporarily released from prison.
• Iran Press News reported that the three Kurdish journalists, who were arrested and charged with being party to the incitement of the July/August protests in Kurdistan, have been found guilty of "Combat against God."
• Iran Press News reported that Bina Darab-Zand, member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front of Iran who had been ordered to appear in court for a hearing, refused to attend.
• Rooz Online reported on that Ganji was still not being permitted visitors, is apparently in solitary confinement and the spokesman for Iran's Judiciary admitted: We have tried to put Mr. Ganji off the spotlight...
  

[10/02-10/08]

• myTELUS reported that Mohammad Mohsen Sazgara, had been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of trying to topple the Islamic system.
• Eli Lake, The NY Sun reported on a leading Iranian dissident, Abbas Fakhravar, is planning his escape from the Islamic Republic after learning this weekend that the country's secret police have an order to shoot Mr. Fakhravar on sight. He is asking for US support for an internal regime change in Iran.
• Rooz Online reported on recent calls for the release of Abdolfattah Soltani, attorney for Akbar Ganji and the Kazemi family.
• Iran Press News reported that Dr. Roya Toloui, arrested in Iranian Kurdistan, is expected to be released on bail, today.
• Iran Press News reported on the first day of the trial of the Azadi Stadium defendants. The incident which took place on March 26th, 2005, after the end of the Iran/Japan Football (Soccer) match lead to the death of 7 spectators.
• Iran Press News reported that Massoumeh Babapour, a woman journalist, who disappeared on Monday, has been found, left for dead by her kidnappers having been stabbed 9 times.
• Iran Press News reported that a branch of the revolutionary court in the town of Sanandadj has issued a bail agreement in the amount of $10,000 each for two journalists.
• Iran Press News reported on the beatings, torture and threats of execution to political prisoners: Behrooz Javid-Tehrani, Javid-Tehran and Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi.
• Iranian blogger, Morteza Abdolalian, Iran Watch Canada reported that Iranian dissident Afshari has left Iran , escaped 6 years imprisonment.
• Iran Press News reported that imprisoned activist; Payman Piran has had his visitation rights taken away.
• Iran Press News wife of imprisoned defense attorney, Abdolfatah Soltani has criticized the regime for failure to investigate the accusations leveled against her husband saying: Seventy days since Soltani's "temporary" arrest has passed and there have been no developments.
  

[9/25-10/01]

• Iran Press News reported that activist & political prisoner, Arjang Davoodi is to be exiled to Bandar-Abbass prison.
• Iran Press News reported that political prisoners, Behrooz Javid-Tehrani, Bina Darab-Zand and Hodjat Zamani who have been on hunger strike for a month, were threatened by the Islamic Republic's judiciary.
• Mori Jex, Iran Watch Canada reported that Mr. Ahmad Saraji, a blogger from the city of Tabriz who is now in Tabriz central prison, is in great danger! He has been accused of publicity against the system.
• Eli Lake, The NY Sun reported that the wife of Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji went public this weekend with a letter to the head of her country's judiciary, asking the whereabouts of her husband, whom she has not seen since August 26.
• Iran Press News reported that Abdolfatah Soltani, one of the lawyers representing the family of murdered photo-journalist Zahra Kazemi, has not been heard from for over 58 days after his arrest by the regime.
• IranMania reported that Iranian dissident student leader Ali Afshari has been sentenced to six years in jail for attacking national security.
• Iran Press News reported that 23-year-old Kianoosh Sanjari, popular and diligent member of the "United Student Front" is still being inexplicably detained in Evin prison. He has yet to be charged or see an attorney.
• Iranian blogger, Amil Imani, ThinkAndAsk.com interviewed a former Iranian student arrested for protesting the regime. The student provides insight into the methods used against dissidents in Iran.
• Iran Press News reported that the Islamic regime has falsified charges against detainees of recent clashes in Kurdistan.
• Iranian blogger, Korosh, The Price of Freedom reported Iranian dissident and blogger, Ahmad Seraj is in danger.
  

[9/11-9/17]

• The Scotsman interviewed Ahmad Batebi, Tehran's 'most wanted' political dissident. A must read.
• Iran Press News reported that political prisoners Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi and Hodjat Zamani, joined their fellow activists, Bina Darab-Zand and Behrooz Javid-Tehrani on their hunger strike.
• The Committee to Protect Bloggers has not been able to get any information on Omid Sheikhan since the third week in July. If anyone out there can find out if he is safe or not, please let them know.
• Reporters Without Borders called for the immediate release of journalist Massoud Bastani, in Evin prison for covering a demonstration in support of imprisoned fellow journalist Akbar Ganji.
  

[9/04-9/10]

• Iran Press News reported on the new fabricated charges against activist and political prisoner, Bina Darab-Zand, adding that Darab-Zand and fellow activist and prisoner, Behrooz Javid-Tehrani are both on hunger strike together.
• Iran Press News reported on the condition of several political prisoners, Kayvan Rafii, Behrooz Javid-Tehrani and Ejlaal Qavami.
• Iran Press News reported that Mostafa Jokaar, imprisoned journalist, is in grave danger after sustaining a heart attack in prison. The prison authorities refuse to allow him to be transported to a hospital so that he can in fact die.
  

[8/21-8/27]

• Iranian blogger, WishMeLuck, Zaneirani reported that Iranian dissident Manouchehr Mohammadi (still on hunger strike) has been taken to an unknown location.
• Pekeiran reported that Iranian dissident Manucher Mohamadi also broke his hunger strike.
• Amnesty International called for urgent action in the case of Iranian dissident Hojjatoleslam Ezimi Qedim, out of fear for safety/fear of torture or ill-treatment.
  

[7/30-8/06]

• Rachel Zabarkes Friedman, The National Review published an interview with student movement activist Ahmad Batebi who is in hiding.
• Iran Press News reported that student leader/political prisoner Manouchehr Mohammadi who along with his brother Akbar have been on a hunger strike inside Evin prison in Tehran. Photo.