Hello :)

http://bit.ly/QXvEs  An article with pictures of the horrors that some people endured in the prisons.
http://bit.ly/3gZIt Students recall the horrors of what they went to. My heart goes out to all these brave people.
 
http://bit.ly/15pnac Another story of the torture. When will this stop?
 
http://bit.ly/1e4X7 Taraneh another brave hero just like Neda and Sohrab and many many others.
 
Here are some articles that i hope will help.
My username on twitter is Fiaa_Mottaghi
Due to the things happening in Iran i will not give you my real name. :)
 
Thanks for being brilliant and supporting us Iranians :D
 
 
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Twitter: Torture in Evin Prison

by: /twitter.com/nicholbrummer

On Twitter, sunday 5 july, from 'confirmed source' about Evin Prison, Teheran:

6 protesters executed in Evin prison, 3 executed in Mashad. #iranelection

Yesterday 6 ppl hanged in Evin in front of other prisoners & they say 2 prisoners we hang all of you #iranelection

Psychological pressure in Evin Prison very heavy - prisoners are starting to break down. #iranelection

The biggest problem is the torture of people by the government, they are very bad. #iranelection

Male prisoners in Evin prison are being raped. #iranelection #iran

Some of the male prisoners are being raped with glass bottles which then break inside the body. #iranelection

Hospital sources say that the torture of Iranian prisoners they see is terrible. #iranelection

In Evin prison prisoners are being tortured by pulling teeth and cutting the penis. #iranelection

In Evin they bring innocent people into room and shoot them in the head in front of prisoners. #iranelection

At night in Evin nobody can sleep because of the sound of screaming. #iranelection

Evin prison is so full of people, they put 10 prisoners in 1 room. #iranelection

In Evin, people are hanged by hand & foot and beaten with electric cable 24/7. #iranelection

One man freed from Evin can't talk - he is damaged from what he saw. He is frozen from fear. #iranelection

Can't answer questions about sources, need to protect them. Sorry.

The Green Briefs of NiteOwl=Iran_Translator

Josh Shahryar AKA NiteOwl AKA twitter.com/Iran_Translator on twitter has been doing an impressive job by collecting as much confirmed truth as possible from the sea of tweets. Translators have now joined the effort, to provide a number of languages. The project is also morphing from a few day's effort into something longer-term.

The Green Briefs can be found at iran.whyweprotest.net and newsvine.com, but here is a list of all of them (and I'll try to update this list).

#	date	Some memorable happenings
#33	Sun 2009-7-19	Shiraz protest. Khatami demands referendum. Evin hot, overcrowded, hell.
#32	Sat 2009-7-18	Plan for government purge.
#31	Fri 2009-7-17	Rafsanjani at prayers.
#30	Thu 2009-7-16	Expecting tomorrow.
#29	Wed 2009-7-15	Airplane crash. Banknote-free-speech. Great expectations for friday.
#28	Tue 2009-7-14	Door in Mashad burned. Tabriz. Many corpses in fruit storage. Basiji gang-rape?
#27	Mon 2009-7-13	Strikes in Kordestan. Burial Sohrab Arabi. Loudspeakers used in roof-chanting.
#26	Sun 2009-7-12	Democratic party supports Mousavi. Rafsanjani to lead friday prayers.
#25	Sat 2009-7-11	Montazeri fatwa suporting protests. Qom clerics moving to Najaf?
#24	Fri 2009-7-10	Less threats at friday prayers.
#23	Thu 2009-7-8	Massive protests all over Iran
#22	Wed 2009-7-8	Preparing for tomorrow.
#21	Tue 2009-7-7	Iron protest: power outages during Ahmedinejad TV speech.
#20	Mon 2009-7-6	Dust storm, Biden statement, Khamenei support changing?
#18-19	2009-7-4+5	Reports of torture. Strike at Sugar Cane Plantation Haf Tapeh. Green Party? Statement from Qom.
#17	Fri 2009-7-03	Protest in Mashad, People outside Evin, British embassy staff held, EU reaction, Ayatollah Jannati at Friday Prayers/Threats, Statement Grand Ayatollah Yosuf Sanei on 'confessions'.
#16	Thu 2009-7-02	Large Mourning at cemeteries, Mothers in Laleh park, many shops closed
#15	Wed 2009-7-01	Ballot boxes in Shiraz. Mousavi persists.
#14	Tue 2009-6-30	Prisons overflowing. Mousavi demands new election.
#13	Mon 2009-6-29	Human chain attempt. HRW 2000 in detention. GC confirms Ahmedinejad election. Persiankiwi ok.
#12	Sun 2009-6-28	Ghoba mosque gathering.
#11	Sat 2009-6-27	Mousavi rejects 10% recount. Women in Laleh park. Persiankiwi arrested?
#10	Fri 2009-6-26	Green balloons. Ahmad Khatami killer-prayers. Bullit-money. Swedish embassy attack. Michael Jackson
#9	Thu 2009-6-25	Montazeri denounces violence.
#8	Wed 2009-6-24	Baharestan protest repressed very violently. Lalehzar. Persiankiwi falls silent. 70 professors arrested for speaking to Mousavi.
#7	Tue 2009-6-23	Some partial strikes. Car headlight protest. Writing on walls. "Bullet fee"
#6	Mon 2009-6-22	Neda mourning 7 Tir Square. GC says 3 millian extra votes.
#5	Sun 2009-6-21	Rafsanjani family members arrested.
#4	Sat 2009-6-20	Engelhab. Massive protests. Mousavi at protest. Claim of bomb at Khomeini Shrine. Helicopters drop burning liquid.
#3	Fri 2009-6-19	Khamenei agressive prayers.
#2	Thu 2009-6-18	Black mourning protest.
#1	Wed 2009-6-17	Massive protests. Some of Ahmedinejad supporters.

tehranelection on election night

A student created the tweet name 'tehranelection' on election night, starting at 2 AM 14th june, and tweeted his story until police started searching satellite dishes. He never used this tweet-name again.. And so this is probably the very first evidence of vote-rigging.

• 1:58 World Hello, I'm a 22 year old college student living in Iran. I'm going to post as much as I can until the police find my satellite connect


• 2:04 As far as we know the elections has been rigged. Many of the poll watchers are reporting that the results are not the counts they reported.


• 2:07 Normal internet access has been cut off, phonelines are restricted.


• 2:09 Cell phones, depending where you are are restricted


• 2:10 The government is trying to hide the fact that Mir-Hossein Mousavi won.


• 2:12 I have a satellite dish that I normally keep in my basement cause they are illegal, and only use it when the government cuts off the internet


• 2:15 I'm waiting for my other friends to report what is going on across the country, and will relay info to Twitter.


• 2:16 Right now where I live in Northern Tehran, the streets are gathering people...people are shocked from the results.


• 2:22 My uncle, who is a police officer, told me that they went to three polling places and opened every ballot box and burned all the ballots...


• 2:22 for Mir-Hossein Mousavi.


• 2:23 I'm looking out my window and people are starting to fill the street.


• 2:25 It is 4:00 am here and people are filling the street.


• 2:27 The TV has been reporting a national victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


• 2:28 I'm filming the street with my camera


• 2:29 I'll post it when I can.


• 2:30 Several other cities are reporting voter fraud.


• 2:31 The police are telling people to get off the street and go home.


• 2:33 On my street, the crowd is pushing the police to the side.


• 2:36 My brother just got home and he told me riots are starting in northeast Tehran.


• 2:38 Right now things are peaceful in my street.


• 2:39 The people and police are just talking.


• 2:41 Normal internet access and phones are still out.


• 2:43 My uncle tells me that throughtout most cities Mahmoud Ahmadinejad people had ballot boxes burned.


• 2:44 They were told to do their jobs and speak nothing.


• 2:45 sirens are now heard....now sure what they are.


• 2:54 The government has turned the power off in many locations claiming we need to fix some grid ??? Yeah, right!


• 2:55 The TV is still playing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad victory clips.


• 2:57 Holly shit, be back in a second.


• 3:03 My Father has a truck load of ballot boxes that were to be burned in the back of his truck.


• 3:14 I have to shut down for a bit, the police are looking for satellites.

Story.From.Iran: Easy, Anonymous, Safe

From twitter user twitter.com/NicholBrummer

There is probably no easier way to send out a story than doing it via
email. Anybody in Iran should be able to get their story even if they
have no blog. Once you have safe access to internet (not easy) email is
a simple method with very low bandwidth, good for a slow connection.

But I guess nobody will send anything if they cannot believe that they
will be safely anonymous. I checked that no email headers are visible
in the blog postings. Only the subject and message contents are posted
here.

If you set up a new gmail account and send email from there, then even
ShowIran can only see that account name. So even if you do not trust me
(which you can), your email-headers are completely anonymous. Use
https://gmail.com and everything is encrypted. The internal transfer
from your gmail to my gmail remains inside gmail. But any trusted email
servers with ssl should also get your email to gmail safely.

If you want to authenticate your post, just state your twitter name at
the top of the message. Subsequently, select your post in this blog to copy the URL. Then confirm your identity by pasting it in a tweet confirming you are the author.

Blogspot has a feature that it shows 'backlinks'. It would be nice if that
works for tinyURL's from twitter. I am not aware of a method to post
the long URL on twitter.

I will not keep any copies of your email on the email account
Story.from.Iran@gmail because I do not want any hackers to get at your
full email, with the headers. A disadvantage might be that it will be
more difficult to prove at some later point in time that you were the
author of the post. The best way to authorise your post from twitter. Make sure you have a good password for twitter, if you do not want people to hack into that!

My conclusion: this should work. Next problem is to get the word out to
the people with the real authentic stories. Once there are stories, it
is important that other people confirm or deny these stories in
comments, and in tweets to the post.

I hope this will work. This blog could become a gold-mine for
journalists and historians that will try to understand what is now
happening. It is easy to copy this idea for other subjects, once it works.

Letters from Iran?

I'm just another dutch guy, curious about revolutions, preferably of the non-violent type. For that to work, usually the system has to eventually give up, like in the Soviet Union and South Africa. Now the world is following developments in Iran on Twitter and various blogs.

I was wondering if there is a need for a simple blog where Iranians can just email their personal story, and remain anonymous. Not only hardened tech-savvy bloggers have important stories to tell, and setting up a blog can be a big hurdle if connections are bad.

So just email your stories. Please try to verify your facts, but do not reveal names, adresses, details that could cause anybody being hurt! So write the truth, but change the names.

Please only send good stories, no tweets, or spam, or I'll have to end up moderating this. Don't want that. Comments and tweets can serve as confirmation of these stories.