April 21, 2004
Human Rights in Iran
My friend, and tireless activist for Iranian democracy, Banafsheh Zand-Bonnazi sends me some terrible news today about her father, imprisoned journalist Siamak Pourzand. You can read the whole story here. At the moment, I'm just spreading awareness about this but if I hear of anything that we can actually do to help him, I'll let you all know.
Banafsheh writes:
Tell them to send a VERY SIMPLE e-mail saying FREE 74 YEAR OLD, SIAMAK POURZAND, JOURNALIST, UNCONDITIONALLY...FREE ALL IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS UNCONDITIONALLY... they should send it to istiftaa@wilayah.org , Khatami@president.ir
Then the U.N. various offices...crueda-castagnon@ohchr.org , lventre@ohchr.org , csaunders@ohchr.org , llupoli@ohchr.org , scronin@ohchr.org , mdelalama@ohchr.org
Thanks Darling...PLEASE help me get this info out there Karol. These bastards have now hit an all time low...
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I will set up a prayer chain at my church.
Posted by: Von Bek at April 21, 2004 12:39 PMI have set up a prayer for him at my church for a weekend mass. I hope it offers solace for his loved ones and that the Lord responds to the prayers.
Posted by: Von Bek at April 21, 2004 12:52 PMI've thought for awhile now that Iran, more than any non-Israel country in the Middle East, is the great democratic hope, once Khameni and his band of theives is removed.
My prayers are with Mr. Pourzand and his family.
Posted by: Gib at April 21, 2004 01:13 PMThank you to all of you who are thinking and praying for the Iranian people. As Gib rightly says Iranians are by far the most pro-Western of any of the Islamic nations, and having experienced a catastrophic fundamentlist revolution for the past 25 years, they are more prone to secular democracy than anyone else in the Middle East, many of whom still labour under the delusion that Islam is somehow the answer to all their problems. It is not - just ask the Iranians!
Posted by: Mehran at April 21, 2004 07:52 PMI'm posting this on my journal, and I'm trying to spread the word.
I hope he's freed soon.
Posted by: Noor E. Sulaiman at April 22, 2004 06:52 AMhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/odious/127751.html
Posted by: Noor at April 22, 2004 03:10 PMall stupid people!!! pray!!! What this old man under the torture needs is action against the thoecracy, not email and canlde in the church! you are all so stupid!
Posted by: andy at April 23, 2004 04:26 PMAndy, what would you like us to do? Grab our guns and get on a plane to Tehran?
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