Could Canada Help Release Hossein Derakhshan?
Ethan Zuckerman.com/On the Media / Ethan Zuckerman/Maziar Bahari
30-Sep-2010 (2 comments)

In an interview with On the Media [see link //www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/09/24/02], Bahari explains that Hossein may have been promised by the Ministry of Intelligence that he’d be able to return to Iran safely. (Hoder began his blogging career supporting reformist politicians. Later in his career, he became concerned that the Bush administration would invade Iran, and he became an outspoken supporter of Ahmedinejad.) Once he returned to Tehran, members of the Revolutionary Guard chose to arrest Hossein, perhaps to send a message to anyone who would use digital media to organize politically. Bahari describes Hoder’s situation as “a clear case of the internal battle between the Revolutionary Guards and the Ministry of Intelligence.” ...If Bahari is right, he’s suggesting a possible strategy for the groups trying to advocate for Hossein’s release: pressure Canada. Specifically, the Honorable Lawrence Cannon, the minister of Foreign Affairs. Contact information for his office is here. [see link //www.lawrencecannon.com/EN/contact_lawrence/ ]...

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Exert Pressure on Canada

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Actually writing to the Canadian government was my mother's idea, God bless her. so I googled for some information on how to do it and got some in the link in this blog, along with a link to the Maziar Bahari interview. He is the Canadian Iranian journalist who was imprisoned for several months last year. Apparently Canada has not been very proactive about Hoder, even despite Zara Kazemi...). An interesting thing, Bahari predicted several days ago Hoder's sentence would be 15-25 years...


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Further information

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This article by Maziar Bahari submitted by Shifteh today discusses Canada's vital role in Iranian human rights issues in the UN. Also see my comment on the thread regarding contacting the Canadian UN envoy along with the foreign minister.

//iranian.com/main/news/2010/10/01/canada-can-protect-iranians-their-own-government