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Frank Gallagher

Guardian - Mass arrests and campus raids as regime hits back - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ran-election-protests-arrests1

IranJune12 Rigged Election Arrests Ebrahim Yazdi Feedom Movement Participation Front Atrianfar censorship Tehran Tabriz Shiraz Qazvin Takvim-e Vahdat Jalaeilipur Soltani Abtahi Nabavi Hajarian

shared by Frank Gallagher on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
  • hundreds of activists, journalists and intellectuals
  • Four pro-reform newspapers have been closed down,
  • With the exception of Yazdi, the arrests appeared to bypass political leaders and focus on their lieutenants.
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  • Tavassali
  • Nabavi
  • Atrianfar
  • The organisation said security service agents have moved into newspaper offices where they have been vetting articles and censoring content.
  • concerted campaign to link the protests with foreign intervention
  • The wave of detentions has spread beyond the capital to include provincial cities. At least 100 civic figures are understood to have been arrested in Tabriz, where Mousavi has strong support.
  • In Shiraz, in the south of the country, Amnesty cited reports said that a hundred students had been detained after security forces used teargas to storm the university library.
  • members of the Tahkim-e Vahdat, an influential students organisation supporting the other reformist candidate Mehdi Karoubi, had been "systematically targeted".
  • Jalaeipour
  • Soltani
  • Abtahi
  • Frank Gallagher on 18 Jun 09
     
    Covers arrests made 12th-17th June.
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