Protests in Tehran this afternoon
Posted on 07/12/2005 10:00:17 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
Clashes between Iranian students and police are reported to have occured at the University of Tehran, following a protest by the students asking for the release of Iranian dissident and journalist Akbar Ganji, who has been in prison since 2000. Ganji's has been on a hunger strike in a Tehran jail for the past month and his health condition is deteriorating.
According to the Iranian student news agency ISNA, the university students asked for the liberation of other political detainees as well. The clashes occured when a dozen policemen, in their attempt to stop the protest, clashed with the students.
Previously, about 200 university students gathered in front of the prison in which Ganji is being held. His wife has descibed his condition as being critical.
Ganji, who in the past published articles allegedly exposing the involvement of government officials in the murder of intellectuals and journalists in the 1990s, was jailed in April 2000, charged with "acting against national security." The journalist, who has already served 62 months in prison, suffers from acute asthma and is being held in solitary confinement at Tehran's Evin prison. He was allowed to leave prison temporarily in May, after he contracted pneumonia. After he was discharged he was imprisoned yet again before Iran's presidential elections.
PING!
The Iranian Havel
http://www.nysun.com/article/16548
Police beat protesters at protest rally in Iran
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12532635.htm
US Calls for Release of Jailed Iranian Journalist
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-06-29-voa77.cfm
We're still waiting to hear from Sean Penn.
Exactly!
Protests in Tehran this afternoon
Someone ought to figure out how many of these threads to nowhere have been posted on the Freerepublic in the last 5 years.
there we go again!
Well, May God Bless them. I don't understand why our government doesn't put more pressure on the Iranian government. It seems just some good old fashioned nudging would push the government over. I bet the number of protests can't be numbered in the last 5 years.
The US Government should massively fund those who are inside Iran fighting the regime!
Tehran, Iran
Police beat protestors
US government MUST help those who are risking their lives in Iran
Many of us are ready to fight for our freedom!
We throw good money after bad to Africa, but we won't lift a finger (it seems) to help out people who want to help themselves. When we hear our President saying things like 'we will support freedom and democracy', why can't we give a bone to the Iranians. Many people in other countries seem to be fooled, like North Korea or Syria, but in Iran, there appears to be a VAST number of people who want freedom and don't want any part of their extremist government.
I'd rather my tax dollars went to Pro-Democracy Iranians then to Africa.
bttt for the protesters
These aren't your father's Iranian "students."
the hollyweird types only favor despots, mass-murderers and commies!
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