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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Team set up with view to pressing charges against those 'spreading lies' is seen as attempt to gag Mousavi and Karroubi Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country's political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet. A 12-member team reporting to the chief prosecutor will scour websites with a view to pressing charges against those judged...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Tehran - Iran's top opposition leaders condemned violence used by police and security forces against protestors, the reformist website Taqir (Change) reported Sunday. Former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi and former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mous...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
[JURIST] Iranian officials covered up the sexual assault of detainees held after the disputed June 12 presidential election, Human Rights Watch (HRW) the rape and sexual assault of three protesters at the hands of Iranian security personnel, including one case which was accompanied by a medical examiner's report. HRW claims that officials at the Tehran hospital that treated a 27-year old activist for...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Iran has granted bail to an aide to defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi who was arrested in the aftermath of Iran's disputed presidential vote, the Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. "Morteza Alviri has been bailed by the court," an unnamed senior judiciary official was quoted as saying. Alviri, Tehran's mayor from 1999-2001, was an advisor to Karroubi, the reformist cleric...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Iran has freed from detention the editor of a reformist newspaper owned by defeated presidential candidate and fierce regime critic Mehdi Karroubi, the ILNA news agency reported on Friday. Mohammad Ghoochani, the editor-in-chief of the daily Etemad Melli, was released on a bail of one billion rials (100,000 dollars) late on Thursday, ILNA said. It was unclear what charges he faced.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Tehran - An Iranian opposition cleric said Monday that Islam in Iran has been made meaningless by the Tehran regime. They derailed the Islamic Republic by having eradicated the republic part and made the Islamic part meaningless, Mehdi Karroubi sai...
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KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty. The New York Times By MICHAEL SLACKMAN RIYADH, Saudi Arabia...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Tehran - Supporters of the Iranian opposition on Friday shouted anti-government slogans at a press fair in Tehran, eyewitnesses said. The protests started after Mehdi Karroubi, the leader of the opposition party Etemad Melli, visited the press fair h...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
NY Times: A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty. His response: bring it on. Once a second-tier opposition figure operating in the...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
From the New York Time s : RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty. His response: bring it on. Once...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The government has been unable to silence or intimidate most of its detractors, but not Mehdi Karroubi, its most tenacious and, in many ways, most problematic critic.
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
In August, Mr Karroubi alleged that some of his supporters had been tortured to death while being held in detention after large scale post-election protests.
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Tehran's prosecutor says an investigation is under way into charges by Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi.
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Mehdi Karroubi ran against Ahmadinejad in an election condemned as fraudulent. The government has denied his assertions that protesters were tortured and raped. Iranian authorities launched a provocative attack on the opposition movement today by announcing a special investigation into prominent cleric Mehdi Karroubi over his accusations that security forces raped and tortured protesters demonstrating...
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