According to Iraniantruth, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in a timely manner. Community Service Officers had asked Tabatabainejad to leave after he failed to produce his BruinCard during a random check at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Iranian students in Paris criticized Iranian government and its repression policy against Iranian students and opposition in a meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president's advisor in Paris. Here are the films [fa].
Regine, at we make money not art, introduces us to photographs by Bas Princen of Cairo's Mokattam Ridge or Garbage City (Zabbaleen) - where a community of mainly Coptic Christians live and make a living out of collecting, sorting and disposing of Cairo's waste.
Iranian authorities released Mohammad Ali Abtahi,former vice president and blogger on a $700,000 bail one week ago after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison. Human rights activists reported [fa] that a few days ago Sasan Aghayi, a blogger and journalist got arrested in Tehran.
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A note from Canada (way North): At least this student did not have an ID on him (big crim these days when your color of skin is not too whitish in USA) . In 1979, I was finger printed, questioned and photographed like a delinquent simply because I was an Iranian student at a state university. That was the time which I decided to leave the land of freedom. Do not be surprised because you will see more and more of this everyday in the jangle which is usually refer to incorrectly as the leader of free world. In a little while, it will be the day that all of you Iranians will be in the camps with walls around you, the same as Japanese 60 years ago since not much has change in last 60 years in U. S. of American.