News from Iran:

Ahmad Batebi is in division # 209 of Evin prison, he is on hunger strike ,after spending 7 out of 15 years imprisonment , the judiciary power approved his primary death sentence !

Ahmad Batebi one of the leading Iranian student from the student movement of 1999 who have raised the bloody T-shirt of another wounded student with his hand and his picture was published in "The Economist " magazin of the time and because of his involvement in that demonstration he was at first sentenced to death but later because of his lawyers appeal it was reduced to 15 years imprisonment, now again the appeal court has approved the primary court decision and reinstated the death penalty. Ahmad who was outside the prison for the "leave of absence from prison" this Saturday at 5:00pm while leaving his home with his wife was arrested by five armed agents from the ministry of information . The agents provided him with a warrant of arrest from the court and the warrant reads : " warrant of arrest of Ahmad Batebi the runaway prisoner and the search of his home " . Batebi's wife have said : They searched our home from 5-8pm and during this time they diden't allow us to talk to each other and they took his computer, booklets, CD and books with them .When Ahmad was returning to prison he said that from now i'm in hunger strike .Ahmad Batebi is currently in division number 209 of the Evin prison. He is on hunger strike and after spending seven out of fifteen years of his prison term the judiciary officials reinstated the death penalty .

Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/more/9500/