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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Warning to Iran’s Student Movement, Hossein Bastani</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/06/a-warning-to-iran%e2%80%99s-student-movement-hossein-bastani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it is easy to predict that the success of student activists in imposing ‎their will and demands on government officials at academic institutions, such as the ‎Teachers Training college and Zanjan University (where the students boldly took the ‎initiative into their own hands), would result in a backlash by extreme right-wing officials ‎who would plan an “instructive” counter-attack against the student movement.‎Hopefully such a reaction will not come. But from an analytic perspective, one must not ‎negate it altogether. We hope that by being alert and preventive measures, the student ‎movement will be able to pass the next few weeks and months with minimum turbulence ‎and costs.‎]]></description>
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		<title>The Image of the Regime? Omid Memarian</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/05/the-image-of-the-regime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the reason that the moment imprisoned students step out of prison, it becomes ‎clear to every one why they were put behind bars: for simply criticizing the president. It ‎becomes instantly clear why they were subjected to interrogations and what questions ‎were asked of them. These are the events that portray the image of this country. Students, ‎social activists and journalists are certainly not on the list of those that dent this image. ‎The publication of the arrest of students because of their criticism of the president brings ‎forth a caricature image of Mahmud Ahmadinejad which does not match the claims that ‎he made at Columbia University or the image that the regime strives to present about its ‎standing.]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: A Bad Year for Human Rights, Say Activists</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/04/iran-a-bad-year-for-human-rights-say-activists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are at least 70 young people on death row who at the time of their arrest were under the age of 16. In the past 12 months, Iranian organisations claim that 80 feminists have been arrested and 20 of them have been sentenced from three to five years in jail. A total of 54 journalists have ended up in prison, several were released without trial after serving jail time, while others remain behind bars. In the past 12 months, 34 newspapers and magazines, among them the feminist magazine Zanan, have been shut down.]]></description>
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		<title>Disclosing Statement of Suffering by the Families of Tavakoli, Ghasaban and Mansouri: Details of the Polytechnic University Students Torture</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/04/the-other-end-of-the-accusation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The families of Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghasaban, and Ehsan Mansouri are releasing a Disclosing Statement of suffering to Ayatollah Hashemi Shadroudi, in an attempt to reveal what has happed to these three students while in prison.  This letter states that 80 days after the trial of these three individuals, they are enduring mental and physical injuries as a result of being imprisoned and it has been requested of the judiciary to report on their condition.]]></description>
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		<title>Jail No Deterrent for Iranian Women&#8217;s Rights Activists</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/04/reuters-jail-no-deterrent-for-iranian-womens-rights-activists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western diplomats and rights groups see the detention of women activists as part of a wider crackdown on dissent, which they say may be in response to Western pressure over Iran’s nuclear work. Iranian authorities have also clamped down on "immoral behaviour", including women flouting the strict Islamic dress code, since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the presidency in 2005 with his pledge to revive revolutionary values. The women's rights activists say their campaign is not focused on what they wear, even if outsiders see conservative dress codes as a symbolic and visible barrier to equality.]]></description>
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		<title>Author Jailed for writing Ethnic Romance as Iran&#8217;s Censors Crack Down on Dissent</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/04/author-jailed-for-writing-ethnic-romance-as-irans-censors-crack-down-on-dissent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A television presenter got into hot water for writing a poem which said "in my dreams I think of you in the middle of the night" because of perceived sexual innuendo. The verse was removed. On 6 March, the general director of public libraries, Mansour Vaezi, warned a conference of library directors that their libraries would be purged of inappropriate works. Academic freedom has also been severely restricted in the three years since President Ahmadinejad came to power. University faculty members deemed to be “problematic” are being forced into retirement, and even sacked.]]></description>
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		<title>Tyranny in Tehran</title>
		<link>http://www.autnews.info/en/2008/04/tyranny-in-tehran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A close associate of the men told me they had undergone marathon interrogation sessions lasting up to 48 hours and frequently involving severe beatings. Interrogation teams of up to eight men have subjected the students to physical assaults interspersed with insults and psychological abuse. The students have been made to lie on the floor while interrogators stood on their backs. They are also said to have been beaten with electric cables. When they fainted from stress, the interrogators revived them by throwing cold water over them.]]></description>
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