Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, wife of Mir Hossein Mousavi, in a message urged the authorities to not miss the opportunity and free all political prisoners. In this note Zahra Rahnavard by pointing out that the spring is the beginning of the new cycle of life in the nature and that freedom and blossom are the titles of this new chapter asked the authorities to give the nation the freedom it deserves and free all political prisoners in this new chapter of life

In this note Zahra Rahnavard stressed that the government ruling Iran, which claims to be Islamic, could and still can present freedom to the nation and the society.

She added that seeking freedom, demanding democracy, and following law are the three main branches of Iranian society over the past hundred years which still shine as part of Iranian demands and even if we only focus on these three-branched demands between the constitutional revolution and the 1978 revolution, we see that both of these revolutions are unfinished projects.

She emphasised that [We are in] a situation and in a historic-political stage of our country that the government and the people could, hand in hand, complete this unfinished projects and by releasing all [political] prisoners, finish this process.

Zahra Rahnavard added that with an overall look at these imprisoned free-souls, we can recognize and categorize them:

1. Unknown prisoners, from women and men, old, young and children: They are the body of the nation. They are neither the first moat nor the first trench that its conquest is cause for happiness and they are not a trench that reformists are hiding behind it.

Their demand is only one of many demands of the people. The free-souls that like the rest of Iranian nation have no one under than their God and their wishes. Just that. And for that reason keeping them in prison is a symbol of the ugliest oppressions and pains one can force on a nation. They have great mothers, children, wives and husbands, fathers and families who can’t tolerate their pains any more.

2. Imprisoned women: Iran’s history is full of praise and high stature for women who are the symbol of kindness and compassion. In the historic land of Iran, statues of goddesses and mothers, we not only the symbol of worship and fertility but also the symbol of deep historic respect of this ancient land to women.

3. Activists and well-known political figures: Reformists figures and their aids and colleagues who want nothing other than the prosperity of Iranian nation and achieving metrics of these unfinished projects.

4. Human rights activists and supporters: Before any other civilization or country, human rights have historic roots. The Cyrus the Great cylinder is one of them. The holy Quran also values the human rights so much that starts with the name of God and finishes with a chapter named “the people”. Isn’t this a shame for the Iranian nation that its government calls the governing of human rights an anti Iranian idea and with this false accusation calls human rights activist dependent on foreign governors, and menace to national security?

5. Different races and minorities. Iran is a land of multiculturalism and therefore has a great opportunity to flourish. These different cultures are not trying to separate and become independent. They want nothing other than respect for themselves and the nation. The constitution also puts no limit on their freedom and dignity while encourage their cultural development.

6. Journalists, artists, and media activists. In the modern world, journalists and artists are freedom-seeker, justice-fighters and independent people who are not tied to powers. The presence of journalists and artists are signs of democracy and the new world without them will vanish.

7. Hostages and others. I wonder how some with power create some groups in their minds and place innocent people in these groups and with all sorts of weird and strange names and accusations keep them in prisons or execute them. This is the worst kind of punishment or even some kind of old taking revenge on people to create an environment of fear and terror.

At the end she stressed: “So I swear to the spring that these prisoners are the free-souls”