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Hossein Derakhshan

Blogger released on bail

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Hossein Derakhshan was released last night on the unprecedented bail amount of $1.5 million. Derakhshan had requested a prison furlough after a lower court sentenced him to 19.5 years in prison in September. The informed source told the Campaign that Derakhshan’s family are immensely happy to see his release and hope that the upcoming appeals court ruling could keep him from returning to prison.

News of Derakhshan’s release was first published by Mashregh News, a website close to Iran’s security circles. The website stated the bail amount to be in the millions. (Mashregh News’ article) Hossein Derakhshan is expected to return to prison over the next few days. Judicial authorities had refused to grant him furlough till now >>>

09-Dec-2010
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AlexInFlorida

Take a moment to think

by AlexInFlorida on

How can any serous govt in power resort to such Injustice and expect to have any legitimacy or even support.  I have never met any Iranian that publicly defends IRI.

Take a moment to think about this clearly, if you have ever come across a single pro IRI person, what this really means.  It is the regimethat is paying for this phoney support online, they are just paid agents.

So it is clear that all the characters on these differet sites that speak pro IRI are just paid Basiji from Iran, because these thugs and crooks are without roots in our country.

 


DelilahNY

ps Niloufar,

by DelilahNY on

looove the new avatar.

;op


DelilahNY

This just proves what a bunch of (esp. to IRI)

by DelilahNY on

lousy s.o.b.'s are over there in control of that 'semi-democratic' government' You see how they are playing with him like a cat with a mouse? A few things to keep in mind:

Hossein thought he would be safe in Iran, despite the entreaties of all his friends that he not go back. (Very naive of him). He had developed close ties with press tv and had been encouraged to return by AN's people, perhaps to work with press tv, and ensured of his safety. As you probably know.

Now, it is still unclear whether his return was a ploy, an entrapment, by AN's faction, to imprison him, or a way for IRGC to get at that faction, since Hossein was 'tried' in IRGC 'court' hahaha. My guess is the latter. I even read somewhere that AN tried to get him released but failed. Whatever the case, it is obvious that to first publicize a push for a death sentence, then mete out a 19.5 year sentence (unprecedented for a blogger, although due to the Israel trip, he is far more than 'just' a blogger), to now let him out on furlough AFTER HAVING KEPT HIM IN EVIN FOR ALMOST A YEAR WITHOUT EVEN TELLING HIS FAMILY HIS WHEREABOUTS)--and throwing into the mix the unprecedented furlough price--that he is just a toy, a dog and pony show and political football for a fetid 'government' playing VERY DANGEROUS GAMES. 

And anyone who can't see that his case more proves this is blind. Not to say there aren't good people in the various factions, especially the Reformist, just that THE SITUATION IS GRIM.  (And also imho anyone who maybe can't see that whatever Hossein may have 'done' during his political shift between 06 and 08, he is now absolved, is equally blind).

And nope, sorry, to some people, but I DON'T think that in the big picture,  that the US (much less Israel) has been 'better' for the progress of our planet than IRI. But SO WHAT?  What's that got to do with this?  Did you come out to champion him, even if only here on this site, when he almost got a DEATH SENTENCE after two years of defending IRI? Because if you didn't, it was just because he was an EMBARRASSMENT to your cause. And that is hypocrisy.

So stop insinuating (implicitly or explicitly) that other people are politically hypocritical or naive until you scrutinize yourself, and then start criticizing others from a position of integrity, and progress will be made. That is my humble suggestion. We all have a lot of self-scrutiny to do and no one, and I mean no one (including, and for all I know, especially, me) is exempt.

To repeat: no one.


bihonar

Question

by bihonar on

Since he is free on a million Dollar bail, he has to go back to prison or they would collect the bail money from him or take the collateral.  My question is: can he or people like him flee Iran and in the US or Canada file a lawsuit against the government of Iran and ask for compensation including the bail money? I am sure there are numerous sympathetic lawyers and judges and for sure jurors in the west which would make it easy to win the case providing the cases can go to court. And thank God there are plenty of frozen Iranian asset scattered all over the world.


Sargord Pirouz

I agree, good news. 

by Sargord Pirouz on

I agree, good news. 


ghalam-doon

IRI - Amazing!

by ghalam-doon on

You deduced so much from just one simple sentence! You deduced that I'm a brainwashed liberal who envisions a US/Europe like future for Iran. And you forgot to mention over 100 years of struggle in Iran to get rid of tyranny. A struggle that has gone awry terribly.
I was talking about one individual, someone who I have admired for his courage despite all the negative comments in the cyberspace. Remember Hoder went back to Iran knowing well what could happen to him. He had this vision that in a post-structural Iran, the regime will accept someone like him. He said so in his blog right after landing in Tehran. Now, tell me, how many of us who don't even dare to use our own real names would be so courageous to put our lives in jeopardy and jump into a situation which might end in our demise. He was a fool no doubt to think anything has changed and he paid a big price. He was interrogated, tortured and might end up wasting his youth in an "IRI" cell. Now what do you call our beloved country if you don't want to use the adjective that I used?


ghalam-doon

IRI - Amazing!

by ghalam-doon on

posted twice


statira

Good news

by statira on

Hopefully, later he will be allowed to get out of the country.


IRI

ghalam doon-Islamic Republic is Iranian system

by IRI on

What makes you think it's a hell hole? People? If you say government then know this, government is the people. Say what you like, people of Iran don't know what it is to be free because they never were. So they have this idea (you included) that Iran should be like Europe and US and people would LIKE that kind of a system. But that kind of the system is IMPOSSIBLE for Iran with people and culture that they have. Don't believe me? Don't! But it's the truth.

Let's agree that there are minority of people who are over educated, or are influenced by Western media, remember the old days and now, and might know what it is that they want. Majority certainly don't and would not know how to act in a democratic system.
Now let's say that we have a progressive system in place, naturally representing those minority, that allows people be the way they want to. What happens then?

1-Internationally:
The West doesn't give a damn what kind of a system is in Iran, they just want to have a "complete" influence in decision making in Iranian international policies and affairs. This would sit well for the small groups of Iranians who are very Western, but not long, maybe another 30 years, the have not will attack the have. Iranian system by default can't be a social democrat because people steal, cheat, and back stab one another. It's at best a capitalistic system that leaves many citizens behind. This will be a problem as it was 30 + years ago.
All the freedom to go to bars, dance, drink, and see rap on TV will become old news in less than 30 years and we are back where we started.

2-Domestically:
Freedom of press, expression, and whatever else that goes nicely on paper can't survive in Iran as the best Iran can have with its culture and people is semi-Turkish style of system. Unlike Turkey, Iran can't be left alone by the West and pressure to do what's best for the West rather than what's best for Iran----> a country that has the potential to be a great influential piece to the region---would not practice it's full potential. To do so, it must limit information internally and manipulate the minds, as it does now. besides Islamic harsh rules, you would still see harsh rules because harsh people in south, east, west, and central Iran want those practices to be implemented.
The limited understanding of Human way of dealing with crime, sex, and other things are a big part of understanding the current laws. Laws fit for a country of Iran that follows a Western style system, they would be foreign in it as you are foreign to the current Islamic way. The difference? they are the majority and you are the minority.
To have minority rule the majority with "civilized" laws is as dreamy as any countries in that region having similar laws and actually "work"! therefore first define civilized based on cultural understanding of people rather than Western defined for others. Even many of those Western define rules don't sit well for Western countries such as US. think about that for a minute.

Try to digest the whole picture rather than words by words, having Iran as a realistic picture of people and culture rather than portions of classes in scattered regions of the country. Use this technique once you visit Iran and see if this begins to make more sense.

If you believe that Iran is closer to Western culture than its neighbors and most Asian countries, then rethink and try to understand why that is a mistake. Understand that most people do not get the opportunity to live in the West and become assimilated to that culture, and many after a while begin to go back to their roots and question Western ways of life. We can see the bits and pieces of this existing in Indian people, Chinese, and many other nationalities including Europeans in the US or vice verse.

Conclusion:
For Iran to reach its full potential, it must have the majority accepting what shall be the way to reach the modern and free society, so that the future system would not limit freedom in order to keep power. No regime in anytime would allow people to threaten its security, and if the minority would rule then the threat would not go away and the system would not act democratically and based on freedom.

People don't deserve freedom, they reach it. Iraq or Afghanistan won't be a free and democratic by any force or rules of law. It's a social progress. Iran is certainly not there. I live in Iran and see it very clearly.

Iranians are mad at the regime. That is true. Iranians want change. That is true too. But Iranians have no clue what it is they want. How to fit freedom in the country to work as a system for all without endangering the system--->reaction from the system to limit it---
Finally if you think Iran will remain as one country, think again too. jumping to something else other than what it is, has been experienced before and did not work. It won't work again. The problem this time around is that the potential of Iran is on the table and the chances of tribal uprising is much more than ever before. This is not based on the system, has some to do with the system, but it has to do with the world around the country also.

Be smart. Be realistic. Become educated about your own country while living in the West rather than try to bring what people threw out many decades ago. Believe that things and social mixes are not as simple as you might think and if you like to be against something, refer to those who are fully aware about social sciences, do more research and learn from them, know more about the truth and historical truth than dreamy ideas so we can actually move forward to something better rather than something different--->other than what it is---
Start with right questions, to name one, what would make Islamic Republic system in place a better system. Then any idea, try to investigate the consequence of the actual action by research and interviewing those who know social science and political history...go from there...

aah, We are so far away when I have to write this to someone residing in a Western country....


choghok

I think his wedding guest khamenei fixed this!

by choghok on

I guess his parents contacts fixed this, and I guess the heavy sentence was going to tell that people close to the power would be punished even harder if they are even suspected of not being ass kissing enough to IRI.


ghalam-doon

Made my day...

by ghalam-doon on

Now I hope someone would get him out of that hellhole.


Nader Vanaki

هودر در سفر

Nader Vanaki


دو هفته دیگه در واشنگتن دی سی در برنامه صدای آمریکا ظاهر خواهد شد.

Niloufar Parsi

good news

by Niloufar Parsi on

hope it's true....

peace