30 Million lose email access in Iran

An Iranian news agency reports that more than 30 million people in the country have lost access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail. The Saturday report by the semiofficial Mehr agency says that the authorities in the national telecommunications company declined to comment on the outage that began Thursday, saying that it had no connection to them.

Young death row political prisoners deny fabricated charges and say they were tortured

After the Supreme Court officially upheld the death sentences of political prisoners Zaniar and Loqman Moradi and the fabricated stories about their ‘crimes’ in state-run media, Zaniar and Loqman published an open letter denying these charges and gave information about their case. They requested a fair trial and due process in a healthy judicial procedure.