All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

AP:
A doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of a blood pressure drug in a salad, prosecutors say. The findings fueled opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew. (read the article)

BBC:
A member of a parliamentary committee reportedly says it is investigating claims of a mass burial of protesters after Iran's disputed June election. (read the article)

The NY Times:

As dispute swirls around events at a notorious prison used to incarcerate political opponents after the June 12 election, a leading reformist candidate in the vote said some inmates, both male and female, had been raped, according to news reports Monday. (read the article)

The Guardian:
They came in the small hours, just as the dormitories were settling down for the night. Outside, Tehran was still in ferment, a city gripped by fury two days after a "stolen election". Inside the dorms on Amirabad Street, students were trying to sleep, though nerves were jangling; just hours earlier several had been beaten in front of the main gate to the university.
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AP:
Iran's feared Basij militia asked the country's chief prosecutor Wednesday to investigate embattled opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi for his role in violent protests that it said undermined national security in the aftermath of last month's presidential election.
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CQ Politics:
He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
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CBS:
A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia Corp., the two large European technology firms, is denying reports that Iran uses its Web-monitoring technology to censor and spy on its citizens' online activities.
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AFP:
Figures from Iran's disputed presidential election show "irregularities" in the turnout and "highly implausible" swings to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to a analysis published on Sunday.
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CBS News:
As Iran cracks down on dissidents, reports surfaced that former Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi was taken by plainclothes authorities from a hospital room and is being held in an unknown location.
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Washington Post:
Millions of handwritten paper ballots were counted within hours. The challenger riding a surge of momentum and popular enthusiasm lost in a landslide. Other opposition candidates did poorly even in their home provinces.
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