Posted on 02/10/2005 7:02:51 AM PST by DoctorZIn
News sources indicate that Dr. Farzad Hamidi, one of the hunger strikers in Iranian prison is about to die.
He has been on strike since 20 days ago!
There are about 6 hunger strikers demanding a free election and releasing of political prisoners.
Shah's Pictures
http://www.iranchamber.com/personalities/fdiba/farah_diba.php
Hersh's article banned in Iranian papers
February 08, 2005
A friend has written in his blog that very top officials (based on my persoanl experience form the days at Asr-e Azadegan, probably National Security Council) had banned all papers from publishing the Persian translation of Seymour Hersh's piece about U.S. possible attack to Iran.
This is how the Iranian regime prevents political discourse. And you may already know, no paper in Iran has an op-ed section. There are some political columns spread out in the paper -- most of them analytical though, rather than opinion pieces -- but there is no specific space for such debate to happen.
Believe it or not, Internet is providing this space.
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