30 August 2009

Cold numbers

On July 21 the blog Revolutionary Road
- published a list with names of persons killed, arrested and
released
since the recent Iran election protests. The list is long, and the numbers are chilling:


Killed by government forces
84
Arrestes university students
169
Arrested university professors
13
Arrested journalists
43
Politicians and members of reformist presidential
candidates’ campaigns
136

Arrested and released
90
Human rights, student and women’s rights activists
20
Missing people
8
Recently arrested
443
Arrested and released army officers
24

According to the comments, the list is not complete. There are still many people unaccounted for.

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