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RFE/RL Iran Report 9/30/2010 4:50:13 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iran. For more stories on Iran, please visit and bookmark our Iran page . |
Prison Sentence For Iranian Blogger Seen As Warning To Others Some Iranian bloggers are speaking out against the prison sentence given to Iran’s “blogfather” Hossein Derakhshan, who has been reportedly condemned to 19 and 1/2 years in prison on charges that include “propagating against the state” and “cooperating with hostile governments.” More Iranian Gold Traders' Strike Spreads Gold merchants throughout Iran are joining a strike to protest a new tax on gold that they say severely hurts their business. More Iran Says Facebook And Twitter Are Country's 'Hidden Enemies' Iranian state-controlled television has accused Facebook and Twitter of being Iran’s “hidden enemies” and tools used by Western intelligence agencies in order to recruit new members and gather data on individuals. More Who Is A 'Decent Woman' On Iranian State TV? Blogger "Kindkill3r" writes about how women are portrayed on Iranian state television, which is controlled by the hard-liners. More |


| Features Afghan Village Fights To Keep Taliban At Bay The Taliban are making rapid gains in parts of northern Afghanistan, forcing villages to make a difficult choice: join the Taliban now or face reprisals later. The village of Tarbuz Guzar decided to fight. More Turkmen Dipping Their Toes Into Online Forums The lifting of some restrictions on the Internet, however, is allowing some Turkmen to express themselves in an open forum while providing outsiders a rare look into their everyday problems. More Moscow Rejects Japan's Warning Russia's Foreign Ministry has criticized Japan's condemnation of a plan for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to visit the disputed Kurile Islands, saying the remarks by Japanese officials were "inappropriate and unacceptable." More EU Set To Extend Belarus Visa Ban -- With Some Exemptions Diplomats in Brussels say EU ambassadors have agreed to extend by another 12 months a visa ban on top Belarusian officials. More Planet Discovered With Potential For Life U.S.-based astronomers say they have for the first time discovered a planet on which key conditions for life appear to exist. More An Indian court reportedly has ruled that a religious site in northern India claimed by both Hindus and Muslims should be divided between the two communities, according to a lawyer for one of the parties involved in the lawsuit. More Afghan Opium Harvest 'Nearly Halved' The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in a report released today said Afghanistan produced an estimated 3,600 tons of opium this year -- a 48 percent reduction from 2009. More Pakistan Blocks NATO Supply Route Pakistan has blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, apparently in retaliation for an alleged cross-border NATO helicopter strike that killed three Pakistani troops. More The Prosecutor-General's Office said it is reopening criminal investigations into the deaths of five journalists between 2001 and 2005 after receiving new information from the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). More Musharraf: New Coup Threat In Pakistan Speaking in London, where he is preparing to launch a political party in a bid for a comeback as a civilian president, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said that Pakistan's army should be given a constitutional role in the country's politics. More Kazakh Police Say Health Minister May Have Simulated Stroke Kazakhstan's financial police have said that Health Minister Zhaqsylyq Dosqaliev may have simulated a stroke to escape justice. More Lenin Statue Removed In Southern Tajikistan Residents of the southern Tajik town of Khatlon discovered on September 29 that the monument to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin had been removed from the town's central park. More Kyrgyz Trials Postponed After Disruptions Two separate trials of ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan have been postponed by the judges after disruptions. More Russian Anarchists Demand Release Of Belarusian Colleagues Four members of Russia's anarchist movement attempted to hand a petition to the Belarusian consul-general in St. Petersburg demanding the release of anarchists being held in Minsk. More IMF Sees Slower Growth In Armenia The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it has scaled down its growth projection for Armenia by 20 percent because of a sharp fall in the country's agricultural output. More Iranian Gold Traders' Strike Spreads Gold merchants throughout Iran are joining a strike to protest a new tax on gold that they say severely hurts their business. More Kyrgyz Farmer Shot On Uzbek Border A Kyrgyz citizen was wounded in a shooting incident on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border on September 28. More UN Prods Kazakhstan Over Prisons UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak says he hopes Kazakh authorities will stop "window dressing" the situation regarding the country's penitentiary system. More The Rundown - September 30 A review of news and opinion on RFE's broadcast region. More Eighty Seats In The Duma Unlike viewers of Russian state-controlled television, readers of The Power Vertical will know that on September 16 leading opposition politicians created a new movement called For A Russia Without Arbitrariness And Corruption. More Prison Sentence For Iranian Blogger Seen As Warning To Others Some Iranian bloggers are speaking out against the prison sentence given to Iran’s “blogfather” Hossein Derakhshan, who has been reportedly condemned to 19 and 1/2 years in prison on charges that include “propagating against the state” and “cooperating with hostile governments.” More Uzbek Rights Activist Convicted Of Defamation A leading human rights activist in Uzbekistan has been convicted of defamation and fined. More 'Politics' And Prison In Putin's Russia I don't think that it is a coincidence that at this very moment the administration has submitted a bill to the Duma that would remove the Investigative Committee from the Prosecutor-General's Office and subordinate it directly to the president. More |