The riskiest job in Iran
The Guardian / Shirin Ebadi
07-Mar-2011 (6 comments)

Not so long ago, my colleague Nasrin Sotoudeh was the lawyer so many of us human rights defenders in Iran would call when our government harassed us or put one of us, or one of our family members, in jail. Sadly it is now Nasrin who is in jail. The government's accusations against her include acting contrary to "national security", "propaganda against the state", and "membership" of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre, an organisation I founded in 2001. The government has also accused her of failing to wear hijab, the traditional Islamic covering for women. On some of these trumped-up charges she has been sentenced to 11 years in jail, and is now banned from practising law for 20 years.

This courageous 45-year-old mother of two young children is one of many in Iran who are targeted – and punished – for speaking up for the rights of others. Women are all too frequently on the receiving end of the Iranian regime's wrath – as we know from the case of  >>>

Simorgh5555

Terrorist regime's Ebadi in support of Nasrin

by Simorgh5555 on Mon Mar 07, 2011 01:37 PM PST

Nothing will free Nasrin unless there is miliatry action and violence. Ebadi should support violence against the regime. 


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MM

Simorgh5555: please fix your reference

by MM on Mon Mar 07, 2011 03:57 PM PST

//www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2011/mar/07/the-riskiest-job-in-iran should be the correct reference for the titled article


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MM

Saudi Arabia AND Iran on UN's Women’s Rights Council?

by MM on Mon Mar 07, 2011 03:51 PM PST

A few more members like IRI and Saud Arabia and the UN's Women’s Rights Group Council will be known as the women-haters club.


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Zara

Pity

by Zara on Mon Mar 07, 2011 03:45 PM PST

Well I do hope all this community-generated obfuscation turns out to be good practice for democracy, because it sure makes for questionable journalism.  But I guess that's the point.  It's questionable, so let us all vigorously question.


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Jahanshah Javid

Zara...

by Jahanshah Javid on Mon Mar 07, 2011 02:25 PM PST

The person who submits the news items write their own headline in addition to submitting the original one. Here's the form for submitting news:
//iranian.com/main/node/add/contrib_news


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Zara

Jahanshah...

by Zara on Mon Mar 07, 2011 02:18 PM PST

Who writes the headlines in red?  The format makes it look like an editorial comment, the voice of Iranian.com. 


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