rosie is roxy is roshan

The way Delara was executed in secret, by surprise, without even

the presence or notification of her parents makes her, whether accomplice, guilty \, whatever, de fact o innocence. Innocent. Of everything. Even of what she may have done.

We Must Be United Against ANY Injustice.

 We Must Be United Against ANY Injustice; 

I have been reading and hearing the tragic reports about Delara;

Her last days and her parent's desperate attempts to appeal to the inhuman prosecutor.... 

This Injustice will not end, until all fair minded people truly unite and raise their voices. It is only through this kind of indiscriminate Universal solidarity amongst Iranians  that can appeal to the Conscience of the rest of the world.

in 1983 A group of Canadian Singers and Artists participated in this music Video, a song written by Doug Cameron to tell the story of Mona;

A Powerful expression of unity between East and West.

Mona and Delara were of similar age and had so much hope and  promise..

see //www.monasdream.com

M&M, This is a point I htink is being overlooked, having read so

many comments since yesterday. Some people are being "blededing hearts"m they are having kneejerk reactions, yes, because she was a beautiful sensitive young woman--oh she is completely innocent. Others are accusing them, in unhelpful unsympathetic tones, of doing this, as well as being manipulated by an international "poster child" human rights campaign privileging her above other imprisoned people for these reasons.

Both goups are not seeing the others' points of view, one too emotionally overwrought, the other too callous foor this time above all.  Neither group seems to be commenting much that IRI has also used her as a poster child in a very specific way.

Clearly whatever happened that murky night-and now we will never know-only that there were two people who were complicitous. Both. Both were young people. One was male, one was female.

The male got ten years in prison, the female got to played with for years as a political football, being moved into isolation for desperately clawing pictures on a wall, being proised then denied retrial, then being executed all alone with no warning with not even her parents allowed to be with her when she died, in a sneaky, repulsive publicity stunt for IRI to prove a point.

The point being that the woman is always guiiltier than the man and when the man does a "no no" it is in some sense always his prerogative, as long as a woman is present she takes the bbulk of the blame. Thus hijab to "protect" a man, the "victim" of his uncontrollable lusts from the woman "guilty" of having hair on her head.

The message of IRI with this poster child is watch out, girls. toe the line. You were born guilty and your fatei s our prerogative. Oh, so you had sex? Flogging for him, stoning for you.

Pretty young Delara after how many years was sentended the day before pretty young Roxana after how many weeks? Pure theater. On a stage called Iran with an audience called the entire world.

In Senandaj in February four union activists, two men, two women, were flogged for attending the same May Day Rally, floggings of 15, 40, 50 and 70 lashes.

The recipient of the 70 lashes: one of the women, the stunningly beautiful one.

Pure theater. Poster children.

Delara Daraba is a "pin up girl".. 

Delara

Dear Rosie,  Delara's execution is tragic.  We, as a society, should ask ourselves why such a brilliant young woman lost her life to her relationship wtih a man ?

Unfrotunately,  despite some changes,  we continue to raise our daughters to be passive, dependent and self-sarificing.

My deep condolences to the family

//studentprice.de/audioplayer.php?singer=Dari...

ای که بی تو خودمو تک و تنها میبینم
هر جا که پا میزارم تورو اونجا میبینم
یادمه چشمای تو پر درد و غصه بود
قصهء غربت تو قد صدتا قصه بود

یادتو هرجا که هستم با منه داره عمره منو آتیش میزنه

تو برام خورشید بودی توی این دنیای سرد
گونه های خیسمو دستای تو پاک میکرد
حالا اون دستا کجاس اون دوتا دستای خوب
چرا بیصدا شده لب قصه های خوب
من که باور ندارم اون همه خاطره مرد
عاشق آسمونا پشت یک پنجره مرد
آسمون سنگی شده خدا انگار خوابیده
انگار از اون بالاها گریه هامو ندیده

یادتو هرجا که هستم با منه داره عمره منو آتیش میزنه

Rosie

Indeed one of the great pieces written about the fight for Delara or in her own words : "Deleras"
Thank you sharing our feelings in these painful moments...

Dear JJ

I believe Rosie is done with her changes on this blog.  May I ask that you re-feature it, please?  Thank you.

dear sooo,

no music event now. as for the generation you so have faith in ,  i assure you they are not talking about music events on blogs about delara today as you are. and that's why they have no faith in you.

I know, dear P., I know that since the election of

Obama and the coming elections in Irn there have been unbelievable human rights depredations on all fronts and it is all onne orchestrated brutal symbol and bargaining chip. But whether we could've saved her or not, as  a website, we could've stood up much taller and screamed much louder. Because those four days were equally symbolic, as is she. No, of course, I don't mean you. I mean literally, as a website. Literally.

Thanks so much.

//iranian.com/main/blog/rosie-roxy-roshan/so-who-will-win-oscar-horrorwood-iri-roxana-or-delara

paymaneh

you really said it best.  i'm going back and forth between shock and sickness and anger.  i can't concentrate on anything or stay focused.  for all the horrible horrible acts during our darkest hours in american history, for this to happen in 2009 is simply beyond me.

roiban.  you know you can't leave now.  we need you now more than ever.

Rosie

I read her poems, I looked at her paintings, I signed every single one of the hundred petitions which circulated on her behalf for three years, I circulated those petitions and news about her to everyone.  I couldn't save her. 

Delara's execution was a political decision, aimed to show IRI's resolve in staying with the barbaric Sharia laws.  Nobody could save her, just like nobody could save all the others before her.  We are dealing with monsters who are scared for their very existence here, unfamiliar with compromises and middle-of-the-road solutions and peace making.  In all the time I have been an activist for human rights in Iran, I have never felt as powerless as today.  The goons and savages we are seeing are scared and standing their ground until the last bitter moment.  

I take it you don't want to

I take it you don't want to talk about iranian.com event. That's fine but you were so excited about it so I figured you'd say something.

I get upset about Iran every day. Every day. One day our younger generation will eventually prevail.

sorry for the repeated paragraphs and typos i was very

upset when i posted it and didn't see them and then it got immediately featured and if i change it, it'll go unfeatured and i figured it's a sign that i should leave it as it is, after all, life is a messy business.

pls DELETE 

dear fish, yes i did, and i took this photo especially for you

//www.jewishjournal.com/images/iranianamericanjews_images/fariba1-721823.jpg

Now if you want to talk about me you get yourself registered (that is, if you're not already and hiding behind unregistered), and write  a blog since you posted publicly. But not today, not this week..Have some respect for the dead. And for yourself.

soooo did you go to the

soooo did you go to the iranian.com event? how was it?