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In Iran, Harassment Of Women, Minorities, Human Rights Activists
Alam Al-Hoda, Friday prayer leader in the city of Mashhad, in northeast Iran, stated that women who violate the Islamic dress code are indirectly helping the U.S. and Israel generate a "velvet revolution" in Iran, and called on the public to act against these women.
Tehran's prosecutor-general Sadeed Mortazevi announced a new round of the Islamic dress code enforcement campaign against women.
The online daily Rooz reported that prison and security authorities in Kurdistan and Tehran were pressuring and threatening the families of hunger-striking Kurdish political prisoners. However, the committee for supporting the strike announced that prisoners in other prisons had joined in the strike.
Iranian human rights activists issued a list of 517 political prisoners held in prisons in the country.
Iranian sources reported to the Saudi daily Al-Watan that the Iranian regime had decided to exile Mohammad Hossein Kazemini Boroujerdi, a cleric critical of the regime, to a prison in the city of Yazd for 10 years. Boroujerdi preaches that elections should be held for the position of supreme leader in the country. Rooz reported that security forces told Boroujerdi that his exile, along with that of four of his close associates, would be carried out in the near future.
Sources: Rooz, Iran, September 25, 2008; Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, September 24, 2008; Rooz, Iran, September 21, 2008; Jomhouri-e Eslami, Iran, September 20, 2008.
Posted at: 2008-09-26
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