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| Iran: the fate of woman prisoners | |
| 2009-07-16 | |
| On Friday July 19, a large group of mourners gathered at the Ghoba mosque in Tehran to await a speech about the martyrs of the post-election protests by presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. According to one Iranian blog, 28-year-old Taraneh Mousavi was one of a group of people that was arrested by plainclothesed security forces for attending the gathering. Taraneh, whose first name is Persian for "song", disappeared into arrest. Weeks later, according to the blog, her mother received an anonymous call from a government agent saying that her daughter has been hospitalized in Imam Khomeini Hospital in the city of Karaj, just north of Tehran -- hospitalized for "rupturing of her womb and anus in... an unfortunate accident".
According to another Iranian blog which claims to have original information about Taraneh from her family, Iranian security forces contacted Taraneh's family after the hospital visit warning them not to publicize Taraneh's story and not to associate her disappearance with arrests made at post-election protests. | |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #1 Not sure quite what to say...as the father of woman not much younger than Taraneh. The Lions of islam |
| Posted by: anymouse 2009-07-16 03:06 |