Kurds have lived in Saqqez and the surrounding region since approximately 1,000 B.C., and many believe that the city's first known inhabitants, the Medes, are direct ancestors of the present-day people of western Iran.
Posted on 08/07/2005 10:50:50 AM PDT by nuconvert
Saqqez (province of Kurdistan, Iran): The Regime has Turned the Hospitals into Prisons
Iran Press News
(english translation)
Based on received reports from the city of Saqqez, on Thursday, huge protests organized by the families of political prisoners and recent protest detainees took place; the protestors gathered in front of the central prison of the city demanding the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners and the recently arrested protestors.
According to all accounts, the number of injured continues to increase and while hospital beds in the two main hospitals of the city (Social Assurance Hospital and Khomeini Hospital) fill up, the regime's [security forces] continue to closely monitor the injured, looming over their heads as they receive treatment, interrogating them. Witnesses describe the hospitals as having been turned into prisons!
The regime's snipers and sharp-shooters have also positioned themselves throughout the city, on the roofs of civilian homes, looking through their viewfinders in order to aim and shoot at any group of protestors that think of gathering.
On Thursday, Aug. 4th, in the township of Paveh, a general strike occurred; business-owners joined the overall protests by closing their shops and offices. The panicked regime deployed a large number of its' forces from various parts of the province to Paveh for fear that the protests in this township too will result in the heightened clashes as seen elsewhere in Kurdistan.
The arrest of a huge number of girls and women in the city of Sanandadj is also being reported. These reports describe the viciousness with which the regimes' forces confront this city's protestors; the[security forces] have taken to breaking private homes doors down in order to capture the young protestors. The regime has also begun transferring the detained protestors out of their own hometowns.
Dan Rather got into Afghanistan.
What's wrong with today's reporters?
They would "rather" fabricate stories to match their ideology than report on a worthy news story is all!!
The death of innocent men, women, and children at the hands if Islamo-nazis is not newsworthy. An Al-Qaida terrorist who has to look at a women too close to him, now that is atravesty worthy of news.
It appears to be a whole lot easier to "make stuff up" in air conditioned comfort stateside. Away from the heat. noise and danger.
Besides, Jayson Blair did it! So why shouldn't others do the same?</sarc>
Jack.
Kurds have lived in Saqqez and the surrounding region since approximately 1,000 B.C., and many believe that the city's first known inhabitants, the Medes, are direct ancestors of the present-day people of western Iran.
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The problem with westerners (or any outsiders) reporting stories from inside Iran, is that the reporters are escorted (have minders) and aren't allowed to go off to different parts of Iran on their on, and if they reveal things the regime doesn't want revealed, they'll be asked to leave and never allowed back. (or in the case of the Canadian, Ms. Kazemi, arrested, raped, tortured and murdered)
Some news agencies use Iranians to get photos and stories for them.
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