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Iran Watch Canada / Morteza Abdolalian/Hoder
01-Oct-2010 (3 comments)

This is an article written by Hossain Derakhshan in Guardian on May 7,2007!? IRAN WATCH CANADA calls for human rights of all Iranian and non Iranian citizens and Justice for all without bias. Here is Mr. Derakhshan's article:


...Cut the bias   Someone should remind Reporters Without Borders to remove Arash Sigarchi's name from the list of Iranian cyberdissidents in jail. It's been over three months since he was cleared ...His main charge was working with the American government-funded Radio Farda ...But since he also had a blog ... the entire human rights machine (western media, watchdogs, and NGOs) started to spread numerous reports, showcasing him as an innocent victim of a brutal regime with a formulated policy for imprisoning bloggers who dare to write a word of criticism against the government. As a matter of fact, the Iranian government has not had any such policy toward bloggers...Obviously the Islamic Republic cannot be as tolerant against criticism as, say, Norway....

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Rosie.

Poetic? I guess so...

by Rosie. on Sat Oct 02, 2010 09:38 AM PDT

in an Existential kind of way. But we have to remember that the person who wrote the Guardian article is the same one who stuck his neck out to go to Israel on a peace mission which, no doubt more than anything, almost got him dangling from a noose. And the same person who as a major Reformist made many contributions to the cause of freedom. We also have to bear in mind that he wrote the article when Iran appeared to be under immanent threat of invasion by Bush, and that he was already in prison during the uprising so he didn't get to articulate evolving views. No judgement of him that separates him from all this can be just. I feel he was a confused and complex, maybe a bit disturbed, young man trying to make sense of his role in the future of Iran in the wake of the Revolution. True justice, although less poetic, will be to get him the hell out of prison--as I'm sure you agree. His mother says he sleeps almost all day. It is not surprising.


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vildemose

Wow, this is an incredible

by vildemose on Fri Oct 01, 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Wow, this is an incredible find..Can we say poetic justice??


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Rosie.

Something Shakespearean about all this...

by Rosie. on Fri Oct 01, 2010 07:38 PM PDT

Something you can do to help him is detailed in my comment on the thread of the following news item submitted yesterday. The article contains some of the background.

//iranian.com/main/news/2010/10/01/canada-can-protect-iranians-their-own-government


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