18 Aug 09 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
The authorities have shut down the newspaper of the reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi, left, who angered Iran’s senior leaders by publicising claims that protesters arrested after the disputed June elections were raped in prison. The newspaper, Etemad-e-Melli, was ordered to stop printing Sunday night by a Tehran prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, Mr. Karroubi’s Web site reported. Read more here
17 Aug 09 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Iran has freed on bail a 24-year-old French university lecturer who was charged with spying after last month’s presidential election. A statement from the French presidency said Clotilde Reiss was in good health and would stay at the French embassy in Tehran awaiting a verdict in her trial. Read more here
15 Aug 09 | Digital Freedom, Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
The U.S. government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that lets residents break through screens set up by their governments to limit access to news on the Internet. The “feed over email” (FOE) system delivers news, podcasts and data via technology that evades web-screening protocols of restrictive regimes, said the U.S. government’s Broadcasting Board of Governors. Read more here
14 Aug 09 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Iran’s defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said on his website that some of those detained after the country’s disputed June presidential vote were tortured to death in prison. The claim by Mehdi Karroubi comes days after he said a number of prisoners, both male and female, had been raped. Read more here
