Update: The Guardian is maintaining a spreadsheet to try to track the fates of Iranian election protestors: Iran election: faces of the dead and detained.

Update: Although stipulating that it has not been independently verified, the Guardian presents similar testimony from a doctor to that in Le Figaro below:

Many of my friends and my cousin even (who was wounded) saw snipers up on the rooftops during the protests. They said these snipers were targeting people through their rifle lenses. The injuries we witnessed in hospital testify to this. One 32-year-old patient had gunshot impact entering the sub-umbilical region with an exit wound on the thigh, which proves the bullet came from above.

Iran : des médecins dénoncent la terreur dans les hôpitaux

I stumbled through the French to see if I could, but there's a translation here.

According to an official report, at least 17 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict. However, a list quietly made by the nursing staff from different hospitals showed that to date more than 92 people died in Tehran and its suburbs. A woman eight months pregnant is one of the victims. Shot and killed, near the presidential palace, she was then transported to the hospital. Other disturbing stories are beginning to emerge in broad daylight, as one of the six corpses of young men found last week in Shahriar, on the outskirts of the capital. "They all died from wounds in the neck. Their skulls had been smashed and their brains had been opened, presumably to retrieve the bullet to erase the trace of the crime," says the second doctor informed of this terrible massacre by a trusted colleague.

To cover this kind of attack, the doctors have been asked to certify that the persons whose bodies have been transferred to their hospitals died during surgery. "In several hospitals - including Rasoul Akram and Imam Khomeini - we have organized a sit-in protest. But state television said it was a strike for better wages. That's terribly shocking," says the second doctor. One of his friends, doctor on call for emergencies Erfan Hospital, has been "punished" for having stood up to the militia. "After missing for thirty-six hours, he was found half-conscious and disfigured on the sidewalk of the hospital," he says.

Pathology indicates that much of the deadly fire came from rooftops. Now they're hunting the wounded. My short advice to those considering political revolt is, "You'd better win."

Peter Tertzakian published an early expose of oil prices some five years ago, and continues at the Calgary Herald:

The Wealthy World at its 'oil break point'

First, let's be clear that we are not in a recession, but a contraction. Recession means a slowdown in growth, contraction means outright shrinkage. The wealth of Wealthy World economies, of which the United States is the largest, kept shrinking through the second quarter, making them poorer on a year-over-year basis for the first time since the Second World War. Consensus estimates suggest that when the second-quarter numbers get reported, U.S. shrinkage will be around two and three per cent, a major bout of wallet tightening that, not surprisingly, has led to unemployment of 9.5 per cent (as reported last week).

That 9.5% is 16.5% in Table A-12 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and considered over 20% in some circles.

... However, there is also the Wanting World, the large collection of non-Wealthy-World countries with 5.9 billion people that are determined to achieve the standard of living that the mere 800 million citizens of Wealthy World enjoy. Led principally by energy-hungry countries such as China, Wanting World's oil dependency is still linear, with a robust growth dynamic and scale similar to the Wealthy World's in the 1990s. It's there that the next chapter of the oil story will be written. For sure, the financial crisis has hosed down economic activity in the Wanting World, too, but unlike like here, Asian countries like China are already showing greater signs of early recovery. Last week, for the first time since the crash, business consumer confidence in China surpassed the important "50" mark, the level above which sentiment is net positive.

Which puts the uneven status of Han vs Uighur in a different light.