Committee of Human Rights Reporters - Rasoul Bodaghi who has been charged with participating in gatherings with the intention of disrupting national security and propagating against the government was sentenced to 6 years of prison and a 5 year ban on party activism.

This member of the Managing Board of the Iran Teacher Association who is also a member of the Solitary Council for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran was trialed in the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Salavati.

He is also one of the former heads of the Human Rights Activists in Iran and is currently jailed in cellblock 6 in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj.

Kurdish Perspective - The website Kurdish Perspective reports that Evin prison interrogators have amputated the tongue of Matin Arjan, a Kurdish political prisoner from Batman, Turkey. He is currently in critical condition and risks death. In the past year [in prison] Matin Arjan has suffered from two strokes and paralysis in his legs.

Tortured view of justice from a brutal regime

The Washington Times - The Islamic Republic of Iran has a habit of throwing rocks at its perceived enemies, but the Mullahs in Tehran are slowly learning that the civilized world will not countenance the practice. Iranian officials last week commuted the sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , a 43-year-old woman who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. But all is not well yet.

When news of Mrs. Ashtiani's sentence began reaching the outside world in recent weeks, it prompted an international outcry.

Iran Press News – According to information from a prisoner of conscience in the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, 64 people were executed on August 11 or 12, 2010 (in one day) in this prison. Most of them were charged with trafficking narcotics and similar crimes. Thirty others will be executed in the next two days.

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