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Nov 25
‘We’re All Political Prisoners’
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A blogger at Madyar (his blog name is Ghomar Asheghaneh, or Amorous Gamble) reacts to the recent release of Iran’s former vice president, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who was arrested in the postelection crackdown. He says Iran is a big prison in which all citizens are prisoners of a state that wants to rob them of all their rights:
…All those who have left the country out of fear of imprisonment or arrest and all the troubles that they could face due to the government of the Islamic Republic; all those who are forced to see a man of whom they do not approve as their supreme leader; all those who are forced to accept Mahmud Ahmadinejad as their president; the journalist who is not able to get his report published without censorship; the writer whose book is confiscated or is awaiting a permit for its publication at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; the film director whose film is handed over to him after being censored while the original copy is retained by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; the student who is forced to appear in Basij clothing in front of the former U.S. Embassy and shout slogans about which he knows nothing; the women who is forced to cover her head with a scarf against her will; the woman who has no right to claim custody of her child; the women who don’t have equal rights with men; those who are stopped and strip-searched at night checkpoints by a 26-year-old Basij member; the Kurd who cannot get his education in his mother language; the Turk whose ethnic rights are not honored; the athlete who is not allowed to dress the way he wants; and…
…We are all prisoners of a state that wants to rob us of everything.
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