Salon has a powerful article, with disturbing images, about a 17-year-old student who it says was horrifically beaten by the police in Tehran.

The torture of a 17-year-old in Iran
A teenager's story, with graphic photos, of abuse at the hands of Iran's religious paramilitaries, the Basij

12.15pm:
A group called Human Rights Activists Iran has more details (including photos) of the students arrested since the election.

12.20pm:
The Iranian authorities and their lackeys in the state-controlled media are trying to launch a counter-offensive on the Neda phenomenon, writes Robert Tait.

Javan, another pro-regime paper, http://english.farsnews.net/ blamed an even more unlikely source - my friend and recently expelled BBC correspondent Jon Leyne. It claims that Leyne hired "thugs" to shoot her so he could then make a documentary film.

Meanwhile, the government has forbidden hospitals from releasing deaths certificates that give shooting as the cause of death.