Tehran's Evin prison is to be closed, and 140 protesters dragged from the streets just after the election are to be released. The Iranian government has started to take an embarassing amount of heat, even from its own parliment, over the conditions these prisoners live in. The Western press has done its best to put this story out there.
The New York Times article by Robert F. Worth
link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html?ref=global-home
The Guardian Unlimited article by Robert Tait
link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/28/iran-prisoners-release-evin-prison
The BBC's website has an update about the 20 protesters actually facing trial.
links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8174507.stm
Primary source sites out of Iran:
http://www.roozonline.com/
http://www.gooya.com/
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