Post by pieter on Jul 26, 2009 5:45:49 GMT -7
All around the world and in Teheran there were demonstrations against
the Islamic regime in Teheran and the dictator Ahmadjinidad:
Shirin Ebadi
At the Amsterdam demonstration the Nobelprice winner for Peace and Human Rights activist, Shirin Ebadi spoke. She made the V-sign for peace hand entered the stage with loud cheers and applause of the Iranian crowd.
Ebadi told her compatriots to stop shouting slogans about "death" at demonstrations. "Let us talk about life", she demanded. "We want to live in liberty. Long live Freedom"
Ebadi, who lives in exile, summed up a long list of wrongdoings in Iran: arrested demonstrators and dissidents who are not allowed to have contact with family or lawjers, politieke activists who are silenced, tortures in prisons, families who do not get back the dead bodies of their children, who then can't be burried in a ceremonial fashion, peaceful demonstrators who are bashed off the street.
Ebadi: "The Iranian government says that the unrest of the last period is an internal political matter with what the rest of the world should stay away off.
But in the 21st century no country can be allowed to purpetrate a war against it's own polulation. This is a human right cause."
She called on UN-secretairy-general Ban Ki-Moon to visit Iran and file a rapport about the things that happened since the elections of june the 12th. "Sir Ban Ki-Moon, don't let Iran become a second Zimbabwe!"
The Amsterdam demonstration:
www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2009/7/25/250709_iran_demonstraties.html
Shirin Ebadi: Iran Awakening: Human Rights Women and Islam
Conversations with History: Shirin Ebadi
Separate Human Rights for Muslims? - Shirin Ebadi
the Islamic regime in Teheran and the dictator Ahmadjinidad:
Shirin Ebadi
At the Amsterdam demonstration the Nobelprice winner for Peace and Human Rights activist, Shirin Ebadi spoke. She made the V-sign for peace hand entered the stage with loud cheers and applause of the Iranian crowd.
Ebadi told her compatriots to stop shouting slogans about "death" at demonstrations. "Let us talk about life", she demanded. "We want to live in liberty. Long live Freedom"
Ebadi, who lives in exile, summed up a long list of wrongdoings in Iran: arrested demonstrators and dissidents who are not allowed to have contact with family or lawjers, politieke activists who are silenced, tortures in prisons, families who do not get back the dead bodies of their children, who then can't be burried in a ceremonial fashion, peaceful demonstrators who are bashed off the street.
Ebadi: "The Iranian government says that the unrest of the last period is an internal political matter with what the rest of the world should stay away off.
But in the 21st century no country can be allowed to purpetrate a war against it's own polulation. This is a human right cause."
She called on UN-secretairy-general Ban Ki-Moon to visit Iran and file a rapport about the things that happened since the elections of june the 12th. "Sir Ban Ki-Moon, don't let Iran become a second Zimbabwe!"
The Amsterdam demonstration:
www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2009/7/25/250709_iran_demonstraties.html
Shirin Ebadi: Iran Awakening: Human Rights Women and Islam
Conversations with History: Shirin Ebadi
Separate Human Rights for Muslims? - Shirin Ebadi