Iran: A List of Those Killed and Detained (12-23 June)

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On Tuesday, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released a list of those confirmed dead and arrested in the post-election conflict. As the Campaign notes, this should be treated as a partial list, as it is difficult to get information from many parts of the country.

Killed by Government Forces:

The government has admitted to at least 27 fatalities in Tehran but the true numbers are most probably much higher. The Campaign has been able to identify only the names of four persons killed in Tehran during recent protests because of the extreme restrictions imposed by the government. There are also reports of fatalities in other cities but the Campaign has not been able to collect any reliable information.

1)  Neda Aghasoltan, student, was murdered at the demonstration in Tehran on 20 June 2009

2)  Naser Amirnejad, Aerospace PhD student, was murdered during the attack on the Tehran University dormitories on the night of Wednesday, 14 June 2009. His body was buried in his home town, one of the villages in the city of Yasouj on 19 June 2009.

3)  Mostafa Ghanian, graduate student at Tehran University, was murdered during the attack on the  Tehran University Dormitories on the night of Monday , 14 June 2009. His body was buried in his home town in Mashad on 21 June 2009.

4)  Mehdi Karami, killed in Jonat Abad Street, Tehran, 15 June  2009

5)  Eight people were killed during the attack to the peaceful demonstration in Tehran on 15 June 2009, according to the government report

6)  At least nineteen people were killed during the attack on the peaceful  demonstration in Tehran on 20 June 2009, according to the government report

There are also several hundred injuries about which there is no available information. Some of the injuries could be life threatening. The Campaign has been informed that Ashkan Zahabian, a member of the Modern Faction of the Islamic Students Association of Ferdowsi University has been severely injured after attacks by members of Basiji Militia and is currently in a coma.

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Arrested and in Detention as of 23 June 2009:

 

Government officials have announced a total of 645 arrests in Tehran since 13 June 2009. The Campaign has received information that about 70 people detained in Shiraz have been released as of 21 June. The Campaign believes several hundred more people could be in detention throughout the country. The following is a list of prominent political personalities, journalists, and students that the Campaign has received.

I. Political personalities  and members of the reformist presidential candidates’ campaigns:

 

1)  Mostafa Tajzadeh,  a member of the  Mojahedin  of the Islamic Revolutionary Political Organization and  deputy of the Interior Ministry during Khatami’s presidency,  was arrested on 13 June

2)  Behzad Nabavi, a founding member of the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolutionary Political Organization and former minister and parliamentarian, was arrested on 13 June and released the day after.  He was arrested on 16 June for the second time

3)  Mohsen Mirdamadi, General Secretary of  the Iranian Participation Front and former parliamentarian, was first arrested on 13 June and released the day after, but was  disappeared on 17 June

4)  Saeed Hajarian,  a senior adviser to reformists,  a journalist, member of the Central Council of the Iran Front Participation, member of the first City Council in Tehran,   the victim of an assassination attempt in 2000, was arrested on 15 June, is paralyzed and suffers serious brain and spinal cord injuries

5)  Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, Vice president of the Iran Front Participation, coordinator of  the reformist campaign in Kurdistan and former government spokes person during Khatami’s presidency, was arrested on 16 June

6)  Ali Abtahi, a senior adviser to Karroubi’s Campaign, former Deputy of  Parliament Office of President Khatami, and a vice president under Khatami, was arrested on 16 June

7)  Abdolfatah Soltani, a human rights lawyer and one of the founding members of the Human Rights Defenders Center as well as a member of Executive Board of the Bar Association, was arrested on 16 June

8)  Javad Emam, a member of Tehran branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Political Organization

9)  Hojat Esmaieli, a member of the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolutionary Political Organization

10) Mohsen Safaiee Farahani, member of the Iran Front Participation and the head  of its Implementation Board,  and former president of the Football Federation,

11) Ali Tajernia, a member of the Central Committee of the Iran Participation Front and former parliamentarian

12) Baghier Oskouiee, leading official in Karroubi’s campaign, was arrested on 16 June

13) Saeed Laylaz, prominent economist and Journalist, was arrested on June 17

14) Kuroush Zaieem, a member of the Central Council of the Iran National Front, was arrested on 21 June

15) Davoud Solaymani, a member of the Central Committee of the Iran Participation Front  and former parliamentarian

16) Mohammad Tavasoli,  director of the political office of the Freedom Movement in Iran and first  Mayor of Tehran after the  1979 Revolution, was arrested on 16 June

17) Hossein Zaman, a  well-known pop singer whose works have been banned from State controlled Radio and Television because of his support for the reformist movement

18) Mohsen Aminzadeh, a founding member of the Iran Participation Front and former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Khatami’s  cabinet, on June 16

19) Saeed Shirkvand, member of Central Council of Iran Participation Front and former Deputy of Treasury in Khatami’s cabinet

20) Ahmad Zaydabadi, general secretary of the Advar organization and journalist, was arrested on June 13

21) Abdolah Momeni, member of the central council of the Advar organization and  its spokesperson, was arrested on 21 June

22) Hamed Iranshahi, member of the Central Council of Advar organization, was arrested on June 16

23) Musa Saket,  a member of the Advar Tahkim Vahdat and in charge of the campaign seeking  supporters of Karroubi, was arrested on 18 June

24) Mohammad Atrianfar, a leading member of the Kargozaran Sazandegi Party and journalist, was arrested on 16 June

25) Jahanbakhsh Khanjani, a member of the Kargozaran Sazandegi Party and former spokesperson for the Internal  Affairs Ministry in Khatami’s presidency

26) Ebrahim Khoshchehreh, a political activist in Lahijan and member of National Religious Activits, was arrested on 21 June

27) Khoshchehreh, Son of Ebrahim Khoshchehreh, was arrested in Lahijan on 21 June

28) Mohsen Bastani,  member of the Islamic Revolutionary Political Organization in Isfahan

29) Mehrdad Balafkan,  member of the Islamic Revolutionary Political Organization in Isfahan

30) Ahmad Afjeiee,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

31) Emad Bahavand,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

32) Mojtaba Khandan,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

33) Saeed Zeraatkar,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

34) Rouholah Sahraee,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

35) Ali Mehrdad,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

36) Mohammad Reza Ahmadinia,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran

37) Reza Arjaini,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in Zanjan

38) Jalal Bahrami,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in Zanjan

39) Sadegh Rasouli,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in Zanjan

40) Ahad Rezaiee,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in Zanjan

41) Bagher Fathali Baygi,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in Zanjan

42) Mansour Vafa,  member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in Zanjan

43) Ali Pourkhayri,  member of the Iran Participation Front

44) Shahin Nourbakhsh, member of the Iran Participation Front

45) Ali Taghipour, member of the Iran Participation Front

46) Mohammad Shokuhi, member of the Iran Participation Front

47) Ashkan Mojaleli, member of the Iran Participation Front

48) Maysam Varahchehre, member of the Iran  Participation Front

49) Mahdian Minavi, member of the  Iran Participation Front

50) Farhad Nasrollahpour, member of the  Iran Participation Front

51) Amir Ariazand, member of the Iran Participation Front

52) Ali Taghipour, member of the Iran Participation Front

53) Adel Dehdashti, member of the Iran Participation Front

54) Mehrdad Balafkan, member of the Iran Participation Front

55) Mahmoud Ebrahimi, member of the Iran Participation Front

56) Bahram Kardan, member of the Iran Participation Front

57) Shahabobdin Tabatabaiee, the head of the Youth Supporters of  the Moussavi  Campaign

58) Mohammadreza  Jalaieepour, a student in Oxford and in charge of the website of the youth branch of the Iran Participation Front, was arrested on June 17 in Tehran Airport

59) Saeed Nourmohammadi,  member of the Iran Participation Front

60) Ali Mohaghar, a member of the Kargozaran Sazandegi party

61) Hedayatollah Aghaiee, a member of the Kargozaran Sazandegi party

62) Ali Waghfi, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

63) Hamzeh Ghalebi, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

64) Saeed (Hassan) Nikkhah, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

65) Hesam Nasiri, member of the Moussavi’s Campaign in Tehran

66) Ehsan Bagheri, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

67) Homaiee, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

68) Fatahi, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

69) Zakeri, member of the Moussavi Campaign in Tehran

70) Rouholah Shahsavar, member of Moussavi  Campaign in Khorasan

71) Mohsen Rouzbehan, member of Moussavi Campaign  in Khorasan

72) Kaveh Servati, member of Moussavi Campaign, was arrested on 20 June

73) Maryam Ameri, member of Karroubi’s Campaign

74) Naseh Faridi, member of Karroubi’s Campaign

75) Morteza Khani, member of Karroubi’s Campaign

76) Bagher Oskouiee, member of Karroubi’s Campaign

77) Siamand Ghiyasi, member of Karroubi’s Campaign in Kermanshah

78) Mohammad Jafari, member of Karroubi’s Campaign in Kermanshah

79) Dr. Jalil Sharabianlu, a prominent MD and surgeon in Tabriz

80) Dr Ghafar Farzadi, in Tabriz

81) Majid Jabari, in Tabriz

82) Rahim Yawari, In Tabriz

83) Abbas Pourazhari, in Tabriz

84) Dr. Laya Farzadi, in Tabriz

85) Shabeti, in Tabriz

86) Shamlu, in Tabriz

87) Dr. Ghafarzadeh, in Tabriz

88) Dr. Soltaniazad, in Tabriz

89) Dr. Panahi, in Tabriz

90) Dr. Seyflou, in Tabriz

91) Dr. Dadizadeh, in Tabriz

92) Mehdi Yarbahrami, in Tabriz

93) Mansour Ghafari, in Tabriz

94) Hojatollah Amiri, in Tabriz

95) Amir Hossein Jahani, in Tabriz

96) Rhdah Rahimipour, in Tabriz

97) Mehdi Khodadadi, in Tabriz

98) Payam Haydar Ghazvini, student in Gazvin

99) Nasim Riahi, student in Gazvin

100)  Mojtaba Rajabi, student in Gazvin

101)   Atar Rashidi, student in Gazvin

102)  Hanieh Yousefian

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II) Journalists:

Some of the journalists who were also political personalities are listed above under the political personalities. The list of detained journalists has also been independently verified by Reporters without Borders.

 

1)  Mohammad Ghouchani, journalist and editor in charge of daily Etemad e Meli, was arrested on 18 June

2)  Rajabali Mazrouiee, head of the Journalists Association, was arrested on 20 June

3)  Karim Arghandehpour,  a blogger (http://www.futurama.ir/) and reporter for
pro-reform newspapers Salam, Vaghieh and Afaghieh, was arrested on 14 June

4)  Maziyar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian dual national, journalist and the representative of Newsweek in Iran, was arrested on 22 June

5)  Kayvan Samimi Behbahani, editor in chief of the closed monthly Nameh and human rights activist, was arrested on 14 June

6)  Zhila Baniyaghoub,  journalist and editor in charge of the Iranian Women’s Center website, was arrested on 20 June

7)  Bahman Ahmadi Amoui,   journalist, was arrested on 21 June

8)  Mojtaba Pourmohsen, journalist and  Radio Zamaneh’s representative in Rasht, was arrested on 15 June

9)  Mahsa Amraiee, Journalist , was arrested on 14 June

10) Behzad Bashou,  Cartoonist,  was arrested on 14 June

11) Sayed Khalil Mirashrafi, TV producer was arrested on 14 June

12) Abdolreza Tajik,  journalist was arrested on 14 June

13) Rohollah Shahsavar,  journalist was arrested in Mashhad, was arrested on 17 June

14) Mashallah Haydarzadeh,   journalist in Boushehr,  was arrested on 14 June

15) Hamideh  Mahouri,  journalist in Bushehr, was arrested on 14 June

16) Amanolah Shojaiee,  journalist in Bushehr, was arrested on 14 June

17) Hossein Shokouhi,a journalist in Bushehr, was arrested on 14 June

18) Somayeh Touhidlou,  sociologist and blogger  in the Road of Health

19) Shiva Nazarahari, a member of the Reporters of Human Rights Committee and a journalist was arrested on 13 June

20) Alireza Beheshti Shirazi, editor in charge of banned daily Kalameh and the website Kalameh Sabz, former director of the Iran Participation Front, was arrested on 23 June during the attack to the newspaper property. Beheshti’s son, Sadra, was arrested while he was visiting his father.

21) Hassan Maadikhah, director of the Zareh Publication and son of Abdolmajid Maadikhah the former Cultural and Guardiance Minister,

22) Mostafa Ghavanloo Ghajar, was arrested on 22 June

23) Fariborz Soroush, arrested in Karaj

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III) University Students and professors: [The names of students who were arrested during the attack on  the Tehran University Dormitories are based on  information released by the Reports of Human Rights Committee]

1)  Marjan Fayazi, student at  Mazandaran University, was arrested on June 22  

2)  Sogan Alikhah, student at Mazandaran university, was arrested on June 22

3)  Alireza Kiani, student at Mazandaran university

4)  Milad Hosseini Koshtan, student at Mazandaran university

5)  Ali Nazari, student at Mazandaran university

6)  Siavoush Safavi, student at Mazandaran university

7)  Ashkan Zahabian, student at Mazandaran university

8)  Ali Dinavari, student at Mazandaran university

9)  Rahman Yaghoubi, student at Mazandaran university

10)  Maziar Yazdani, student at Mazandaran university

11)  Ali Abbasi, student at Mazandaran university

12)  Shouaneh Merikhi, student at Mazandaran university

13)  Majid Dari, an expelled student at Alameh Tabatabaiee University in Tehran, was violently arrested on 21 June in his home

14)  Esmaiel Jalilvand, a student activist in Shiraz University, was arrested on 21 June 

15)  Hamdollah Namjou, a student activist in Shiraz University, was arrested on 21 June 

16)  Hossein Reisian, university professor at International Emamkhomaini University in Ghazvin, was arrested on June 21 

17)  Fazli, university professor at International Emamkhomaini University in Ghazvin 

18)  Imani, university professor at International Emamkhomaini University in Ghazvin 

19)  Alborzi, university professor at International Emamkhomaini University in Ghazvin 

20)  Darvish, university professor at International Emamkhomaini University in Ghazvin 

21)  Mohsen Barzegar, student at Babol Engineering Univeristy, was arrested on June 18 

22)  Iman Sedighi, student at Babol Engineering Univeristy, was arrested on June 18

23)  Hesam oldin Bagheri, student at Babol Engineering Univeristy, was arrested on June 18

24)  Siavash Saliminejad, student at Babol Engineering Univeristy, was arrested on June 20

25)  Alireza Khoshbakht, an expelled graduate student, was arrested on June 17

26)  Zahra Tohidi, an expelled graduate student, was arrested on June 17

27)  Ziaoldin Nabavi, secretary of the Education Rights Council, was arrested on 16 June

28)  Sohrab Ahadian, student at Tehran University, was arrested on June 17 when the Tehran University Dormitories were violently attacked

29)  Reza Arkouzi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

30)  Karim Emami, student, was arrested during the attack on the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14

31)  Mohammad Hossein Emami, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

32)  Elaheh Imanian, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

33)  Rouholah Bagheri, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

34)  Farhad Binazadeh, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

35)  Iman Pourtahmasb, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

36)  Ezat Torbati, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories midnight on June 14

37)  Somayeh tohidlou, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

38)  Milad Chegini, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

39)  Mohammadreza Hohabadi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

40)  Seyed Javad hosseini, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

41)  Farshid Heydari Zamin, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

42)  Behnam Khodabandeh lou, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

43)  Mohammad Khansari, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

44)  Mohammad Davoudian, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

45)  Mahmoud Delbari, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

46)  Ali Raiee, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

47)  Omid Rezaiee, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

48)  Ali Refahi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

49)  Seifolah Rmezani, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

50)  Ebrahim Raidian, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

51)  Naser Zamani, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

52)  Majid Selahvand, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

53)  Hanif Salimi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

54)  Mohammad Bagher Shabanpour, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

55)  Hamed Shaykh alishahi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

56)  Iman Shaydaieezaban, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

57)  Farhad Shirahmad, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

58)  Saman Sahebjalali, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

59)  Farhan Sadeghpour, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

60)  Farshad Taheri, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

61)  Ghamdideh Olum, student, was arrested during the attack to the TehranUuniversity Dormitories at midnight on June 14

62)  Esmaieel Ghorbani, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

63)  Mohammad Karimi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

64)  Erfan Mohammadi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14

65)  Naseh Faridi, student at Teacher Training Universtiy, was arrested on June 17

66)  Izadi, Professor of Bualisina University in hamedan, was arrested on June 16

67)  Majzoubi, University Professor at Bualisina University in Hamedan, was arrested June 13

68)  Amin Nazari, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

69)  Siavash Hatam, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

70)  Pouria Sharifian, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

71)  Mehdi Mosafer, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

72)  Reza Jafarian, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

73)  Hojat Bakhtiari, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

74)  Mostafa Mehdizadeh, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

75)  Omid Sohravi, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

76)  Vahid Amirian, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

77)  Fazolah Joukar, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

78)  Mehdi Torkaman, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

79)  Nastaran Khodarahimi, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

80)  Ali Ahmadi, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

81)  Mosaab Ebrahimi, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

82)  Saeed Parvizi, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

83)  Bahareh Hosseini, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

84)  Hadis Zamani, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

85)  Nahid Siahvand, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

86)  Imani, student at Bualisina University in Hamedan

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Arrested and Released:



1)  Mohammad Reza  Khatami, member of the Central Committee of Iran Participation Front, brother of former president Khatami, was arrested on 13 June and released on  14 June

2)  Zahra Mojaradi, a member of the Iran Participation Front, was arrested on 13 June and released on 14 June

3)  Saeed Shariati,  a member of the Iranian Participation Front, was arrested on 13 June and released on 14 June

4)  Taghi Rahmani,  political figure and journalist, was arrested on 14 June and released the day after

5)  Reza Alijani,  political figure, was arrested on 14 June and released the day after

6)  Hoda Saberi,  journalist, was arrested on 14 June and released the day after

7)  Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, and her daughter and two other members of Rafsanjani’s Family  were arrested on 20 June and released after 30 hours

8)  Ebrahim Yazdi, General Secretary of the Iran Liberation Movement, was arrested on June 14 from the Pars Hospital in Tehran and was taken back to the hospital on June 15 for further surgery

9)  Ahmad Ahmadian, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

10)  Eskandari, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

11)  Amin Afzali, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories midnight on June 14 and released later

12)  Vahid Anari, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

13)  Mohammad Bolourdi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

14)  Hossein Hamedi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

15)  Mohsen Habibi, Mazaheri, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

16)  Navid Haghdadi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran university Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

17)  Mohammad reza Hokmi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

18)  Kazem Rahimi Olume, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

19)  Morteza Rezakhani, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at  midnight on June 14 and released later

20)  Maysam Zareiee, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

21)  Amin Samiee, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

22)  Bahram Shaabani, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories at midnight on June 14 and released later

23)  Alireza Shaykhi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

24)  Ebrahim Azizi, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

25)  Siavash Fiaz, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

26)  Sayed Hossein Mirzadeh, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran University Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

27)  Hossein Noubakht, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran university Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

28)  Javad Yazdanfar, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran university Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

29)  Habib Khadangi, student, student, was arrested during the attack to the Tehran university Dormitories mid night on June 14 and released later

[This was added in comments on the list: "Dr. Ali Reza Aaghaei Raad, a journalist, poet, and university professor was arrested at his home on June 20, at 2AM (Iran time zone) by plain cloth security personnel without warrant. His family does not know where is he been taken. He is pro reform and pro Mr. Mosavi."]

Iran: Detained Iranian Politicians and Journalists

The Latest from Iran (22 June): Waiting for the Next Move

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Tehran Bureau has posted the following list. Many of the names have also been confirmed by other sources and our correspondents. In addition, Tehran Bureau profiles journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari (left), who was working for Newsweek when he was arrested this weekend:

Politicians

Dr. Mohsen Aminzadeh: Member of the Student Followers of Imam’s Line (SFIL), the leftist group of the students who took over the United State Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979; Deputy Foreign Minister in the Khatami administration; member of the Central Committee of the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization (IRMO), one of the two leading reformist parties; founding member of the reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), Iran’s largest political party; director of the Mousavi campaign.

Dr. Saeed Hajjarian: Member of SFIL; leading reformist strategist; advisor to Mohammad Khatami during his presidency; editor-in-chief of Sobh-e Emrooz (This Morning), a leading reformist newspaper shut down by the hard-liners; member of the Central Committee of the IIPF; deputy Minister of Intelligence in the 1980s; member of the SFILM; handicapped by an assassination attempt on his life in March 2000.

Behzad Nabavi: Leading reformist strategist, a founder, and member of the Central Committee of IRMO; Deputy Speaker of the 6th Majles (parliament); chief negotiator with the United States that led to the release of the American hostages in 1981; Minister in the first Mousavi Cabinet in the 1980s; jailed for years by the Shah.

Mohammad Tavassoli: Tehran’s first mayor after the 1979 Revolution; member of the Central Committee and political director of the Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI), a reformist/centrist political party founded in 1961 by Mahdi Bazargan, the first prime minister after the 1979 Revolution; jailed for years by the Shah.

Mostafa Tajzadeh: Deupty Interior Minister in the first Khatami administration who supervised the elections for the first city councils and the 6th Majles, a process praised for its even-handedness and transparency; member of the Central Committees of both IIPF and IRMO; outspoken critic of the hard-liners.

Dr. Abdollah Ramazanzadeh: Deputy Secretary-General of the IIPF; Government spokesman during the second Khatami administration; Governor-General of the Kurdistan province; deputy Interior Minister for planning, and for political affairs.

Mohammad Ali Abtahi: Chief of Staff, and then Vice President to Mr. Khatami for parliamentary affairs; a principal advisor to Mahdi Karroubi (the second reformist candidate) in the 2009 presidential election; popular reformist cleric who writes for his own website/blog, www.webnevesht.com ; a leading member of the Association of the Combatant Clerics, the reformist leftist clerical organization that supports Mr. Mousavi.

Dr. Ebrahimi Yazdi: Secretary-General of the FMI; Foreign Minister in the Bazargan government after the 1979 Revolution; leading aid to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Revolution (he was arrested while hospitalized for a medical condition; it is said that he may have been released).

Dr. Mohsen Mirdamadi: Secretary-General of the IIPF; chairman of the 6th Majles’ Committee on National Security; one of the three principal leaders of SFIL who took over the US Embassy in 1979.

Mohammad Atrianfar: Deputy Interior Minister in the first Khatami administration; member of the Central Committee of the Executives of Reconstruction Party (ERP), a reformist party; editor-in-chief of the popular daily Hamshahri (owned by Tehran’s city council) during the second Khatami administration; manager of Shargh, a popular daily reformist newspaper shut down by the hardliners.

Mohsen Safaei Farahani: Member of the Central Committee of the IIPF; former head of Iran’s Soccer Federation, deputy Minister of Economy in the Khatami administration.

Hedayatollah Aghaaei: Member of the Central Committee of the ERP.

Davood Soleimani: Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance for Domestic Press in the first Khatami administration; Tehran deputy in the 6th Majles; member of the Central Committee of the IIPF.

Dr. Ali Tajer Niya: Mashhad’s [a large city in northeastern Iran] deputy to the 6th Majles; member of the campaign team of Mr. Mousavi; member of the IIPF.

Jahanbakhsh Khanjani: Spokesman for the Interior Ministry during the Khatami administrations; member of the ERP.

Saeed Leylaaz: Economic advisor to the Khatami administration; journalist; strong critic of President Ahmadinejad’s economic policies.

Abdolfattah Soltani: Prominent attorney and member of the Center for the Defense of Human Rights (founded by Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s Nobel Laureate for Peace); attorney for several jailed human rights advocates; attorney for the mother of Dr. Zahra Kazemi, the photojournalist that was murdered in an Iranian jail; imprisoned for his human rights activities.

Shahab Tabatabaei: Director of the youth committee of the Mousavi campaign.

Mohammad Reza Jalaei Pour: Director and spokesman of the nation-wide movement, Pouyesh, that supports Mr. Mousavi; son of the well-known university professor and reformist journalist Dr. Hamid Reza Jalaei Pour.

Abdollah Momeni: former Secretary-General of the Office for Consolidation of Unity (known in Iran as Tahkim Vahdat, the largest nation-wide university student organization), and the Organization of University Graduates of Islamic Iran (known in Iran as Advaar-e Tahkim); a prominent political activist.

Rajabali Mazrouei: Member of the Central Committee of the IIPF; Isfahan’s deputy to the 6th Majles; journalist, and director of the Association of Iranian Journalists

Journalists and Bloggers

Mahsa Amrabadi: reporter for the E’temaad-e Melli (National Trust) daily, the mouthpiece of the National Trust Party of Mr. Mahdi Karroubi, the reformist candidate.

Karim Arghandehpour: journalist writing for reformist newspapers Salaam and Vaghaa-ye Ettefaaghiyeh, both of which were shut down by the hard-liners. He also has a blog, www.futurama.ir

Khalil Mir Ashrafi: A television producer and journalist

Behzad Basho: Cartoonist

Kayvan Samimi Behbahani: Managing editor of Naameh (Letter), a monthly publication, close ties to the Nationalist-Religious Coalition (NRC)

Somayyeh Tohidloo: a blogger at http://smto.ir ; political activist; sociologist; supporter of Mr. Mousavi

Abdolreza Tajik: political activist, economist, and close to the FMI and the NRC

Dr. Ahmad Zeydabadi: distinguished journalist writing for www.roozonline.com and print media in Iran; Secretary-General of the Organization of University Graduates of Islamic Iran (Advaar-e Tahkim); a supporter of Mr. Karroubi; close to the RNC.

Mojtaba Pourmohsen: editor of Gilaan-e Emrooz (Today’s Gilaan; Gilaan is a province in northern Iran, bu the Caspian Sea); contributor to Radio Zamaneh (a Persian radio in Holland).

Hamideh Mahhozi: a journalist active in southern Iran

Amanollah Shojaei: a blogger living in Bushehr, in southern Iran

Hossein Shokouhi: reporter and journalist writing for Payaam-e Jonoob (the Message of the South), in southern Iran.

Mashallah Haydarzadeh: Another journalist active in southern Iran

Ruhollah Shahsavar: A journalist working in Mashhad (in northeaster Iran)

Mohammad Ghoochani: prominent reformist journalist, editor of many reformist newspapers shut down by the hardliners (e.g., Shargh [East]; Hammihan [Compatriot], and the weekly, Shahrvand Emrooz [Today’s Citizen]); editor of E’temaad Melli; son-in-law of Mr. Emad Baghi, the prominent journalist and human rights advocate.

Jila Baniyaghoob: prominent female journalist, working previously for many reformist newspapers; editor of the website Kannon-e Zanaan-e Irani (Center for Iranian Women); writing at http://irwomen.net

Bahman Ahmadi Amooee: journalist and husband of Jila Baniyaghoob

Eisa Sahar Khiz: an outspoken journalist who has been a critic of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; contributor to www.roozonline.com director in charge of the domestic press during the first two years of Mr. Khatami’s presidency, during which the Iranian press flourished.

Video: Former President Carter on Detainee Abuse

Speaking on CNN, Jimmy Carter, the US President from 1977 to 1981 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, made a gentle but challenging contribution to the debate over the release of photographs of detainee abuse (""I don't agree with [President Obama], but I certainly don't criticize him for making that decision") and an investigation of the Bush Administration's torture programme: "What I would like to see is a complete examination of what did happen, the identification of any perpetrators of crimes against our own laws or against international law. And then after all that's done, decide whether or not there should be any prosecutions."

UPDATED Hidden US Torture Photos: The Story (and the Images) Continue

The Salon Gallery of Torture Photos and Video

Related Post: Torture - The Hidden Photos Emerge

UPDATE: Jake Tapper, the White House correspondent for ABC News in the US, has just posted a blog which graphically illustrates the complicity of many in the US media --- wittingly or unwittingly --- in either missing or setting aside the main story. Instead of identifying and focusing on the main story, the content and context of the 2000 photographs and videotapes of detainee abuse, Tapper goes for the sideshow of the White House trashing of the Daily Telegraph's interview with General Taguba.

Last month Enduring America paid a good deal of attention to the Obama White House's decision to defy a court order and hold back 44 photographs, amongst hundreds and possibly thousands, of the abuse of detainees in US facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. We linked to Italian newspapers with a dozen of the images, posting the two most moderate --- the story become our fifth-biggest in our eight months on the Web.

Last week, there was another series of developments --- some illuminating, some confusing, all disturbing. It began on Thursday when The Daily Telegraph of London ran an article based on an interview with General Antonio Taguba, who led the 2004 internal investigation of the abuses at Abu Ghraib. According to the newspaper, Taguba said the photos showed ""torture, abuse, rape and every indecency". The Daily Telegraph highlighted "a soldier apparently raping a female prisoner, a translator apparently raping a male prisoner, and instances of sexual abuse involving objects".

None of this is new. As Taguba carried out his initial investigation five years ago, there were leaks pointing to the content, in thousands of photographs and some video recordings, outlined by The Daily Telegraph. Indeed, the electronic magazine Salon published many of the images in 279 pictures and 19 videos. However, as the Iraq conflict escalated, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld survived calls for his firing, and a few low-ranking soldiers were handed prison sentences for Abu Ghraib, the unreleased photos receded from memory, let alone vision.

What made this story notable, five years later, was the reaction of the Obama Administration. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was quick to say that The Daily Telegraph "mischaracterised" the 44 photos involved in the court action. Salon, the same magazine that had published "The Abu Ghraib Files", then got in on the act. It interviewed Taguba, who said, "The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen." Instead, "he was referring to the hundreds of images he reviewed as an investigator of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq". Gibbs then eagerly e-mailed reporters, "Both the Department of Defense and the White House have said the [Daily Telegraph] article was wrong, and now the individual who was purported to be the source of the article has said it’s inaccurate.

Thus, partly because Salon wanted to protect its 2006 exclusive and primarily because the White House wants to keep the story far, far away, the spin was put in motion: nothing new to see here, move along.

Actually, the story should be easy to see, amidst the manoeuvres of politicians and journalists. The 44 photos are important, not necessarily because of their specific images --- a Pentagon official maintains, "These photographs, while disturbing enough, are relatively inconsequential compared to those which were already released in 2004 and 2006" --- but because of the precedent that would be set by their release. For once they are out, the thousands of  photos and tapes will inevitably follow, since the US Government has no legal or political standing to withhold them. As Taguba, who opposes the release of the material, says, "The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it.”

And, even beyond the visual shocks that lies in the full archive, this will be a big, very new deal. Salon's 2006 gallery is limited to images from Abu Ghraib, so the pictorial illusion can be maintained that it was just one prison (and, beyond that, the political illusion of the Obama White House, following its predecessor, that it was just a few rogue troops who have been disciplined for their crimes). The unvarnished, complete gallery would establish how many places where this abuse occurred, from Iraq to Afghanistan to "undisclosed locations" and possibly to Guantanamo Bay. It would establish, once and for all, that these were not isolated incidents but part of a systematic process put in motion not in Baghdad but in Washington.

There may, however, be a twist in the tale. Scott Horton of The Daily Beast, who is carrying out a personal battle with Salon over the investigation, claims --- via "a senior Pentagon official" --- that there is an intra-Administration contest over the photos. While General Raymond Odierno, the US commander in Iraq, was able to block the release of the 44 images in the court action by arguing that US troops would be endangered, General David Petraeus, the overall US commander in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, favours disclosure to "lance this boil". So, according to this official, Obama's announcement on 14 May that he would defy the court order is "a stall tactic: he intends to release them eventually, even if he prevails in court, once the situation on the ground improves."

Hmmm....I'm sceptical, as this feels like another delaying tactic rather than an eventual acceptance that the photos will have to be acknowledged, in public view as well in a court case. "Once the situation on the ground improves", given conditions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, becomes a Never-Never Land of transparency.

So instead there will be the drip-drip-drip of more stories which are not necessarily new, not necessarily exclusive, but still important. There will be more White House denials and misinformation. The Bush Administration men and women behind the photos will escape a public reckoning, and the suspicion --- abroad if not within the US --- will build that President Obama's promise of "the right balance between transparency and national security" is very, very tilted indeed.