Brief Reports out of Ward 209 of Evin

Human Rights Activists in Iran

The following short reports have come out of Ward 209 of Evin and its interrogation rooms.

· Reports indicate that security forces have put some of the detainees under pressure to confess that Mir Hossein Mousavi had been aware and had agreed to the production and distribution of CDs containing a video called Political 90. This is while the producer of the Cds, which depict the rivals of Ahmadinejad in the election, is a journalist known as A-F who had been previously detained for two days.

· Mohammad Reza Jalaipoor, the spokesman of the “Campaign for Khatami and Mousavi” remains in ward 209 of Evin. He is under pressure for his alleged role as the main organizer of the nightly Allah Akabar chants which have become a symbol of the recent protests.

· Reports indicate prisoners’ sexual relationships are still being used during most of the interrogation sessions to put pressure on the detained activists.

· On September 7th 2009, Fariba Pajouh the detained journalist denied previous reports of her transfer to a public ward and informed her husband’s family that she remains in solitary confinement.