Nat Troy sends along the following translation of the short newsbriefs from Issue 7 of Khiaban. The image above is from their newly redesigned masthead. Of particular interest is the statement from the Iran Khodro workers association, which strongly condemns the government’s actions but stops short of mentioning a strike or work slowdown, in contrast to earlier reports. Thanks Nat! -WW
News Shorts
Arrest of 70 University Professors
Yesterday, the coup d’état government arrested 70 university professors. The professors were attending a meeting with Mir Hossein Mousavi. They were arrested by the coup d’état guards as they were leaving the meeting and taken to an undisclosed location.
The Shamelessness of the Government
The Wallstreet Journal reported that the government demanded that the family of slain Kaveh Alipour pay them $3,000 for the bullet before handing over his body.
Shiva Nazar-Ahari under the Most Harsh Torture
It is reported that Shiva Nazar-ahari, a student and human rights activist, was severely tortured. Government efforts to bring heavy charges against some of the activists, not from the reformist camp, are intended to provide the opportunity for more killings in the prisons.
More Than 60 Newspaper Correspondents in Jail
The arrest of 25 news correspondents employed by a Mousavi newspaper has brought the total number of jailed Iranian newspaper correspondents to over 60. Iran is the largest prison in the world for newspaper reporters.
Khodro (largest automobile producer in Iran) Workers Issue Proclamation
Worker Friends and Dear Co-workers:
In recent days, scores of our compatriots have been reduced to dirt and blood in savage attacks by the capitalists’ protection forces. Scores of people have been wounded and killed. Was their crime no more than a desire for freedom and a better world? The government of Ahmadinejad proved again that it remained dependent only on the use of suppression, deception, and lies. Never in history have people been killed in such a savage way – even Hitler did not commit such a crime. Attacks with knives and daggers; the murder of a 16-year-old right in front of his mother’s eyes – is there a precedent for this in history? Workers of Iran Khodro will not forget these crimes. While we workers of Iran Khodro condemn these savage attacks on the people, we remember with reverence those who gave their lives in the struggle for freedom and we praise them and their families and all freedom-lovers.
The eternal praise for those struggling to open the way to freedom from a group of Iran Khodro workers. . .
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