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Come Get me
19-Nov-2010
By Hana Baba
Listen: 4:08 minLast year after the Iranian presidential elections took place, a dispute over the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad sparked massive protests. The demonstrators' use of Twitter and YouTube put the protests and the violence that ensued on the Internet for the world to see. Hundreds of journalists and political dissidents were imprisoned as authorities tried to stop the protests.
One of them was 70-year-old Iranian activist Koroush Zaim. His imprisonment sparked a worldwide protest campaign, spearheaded by Zaim's son, San Francisco-based hip-hop artist Turaj Zaim. Turaj hasn't been to Iran since he was six years old, but he sent a message to Iran's leaders by launching a hunger strike outside of San Francisco's City Hall in September 2009. On the twelfth day of fasting, Turaj found out that his father had been released.
San Francisco radio interview on today's U.N. speech September 23, 2010
Cross Currents -->Turaj official website.
San Francisco radio interview on today's U.N. speech September 23, 2010
Cross Currents -->San Francisco radio interview on today's U.N. speech September 23, 2010
Cross Currents -->Read more: //www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/kalw/detail?entry_id=77300#ixzz15juCV600
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Hopefully all the IRI political prisoners will be free soon
by Shazde Asdola Mirza on Fri Nov 19, 2010 05:58 PM PSTDear Vildemose, it is so good that you write and remind everyone - thanks.
Dear Mehraban: I envy
by vildemose on Fri Nov 19, 2010 03:37 PM PSTDear Mehraban: I envy you...lolI had no idea his father actually wrote a 'road map'. Thank you for sharing that piece of info. I would love to read that document online or in print if anyone knows where I can obtain it.
Dear Vildemose
by Mehrban on Fri Nov 19, 2010 03:30 PM PSTThank you for this blog. I have read a road map by Kourosh Zaim as to how to move from the present system of the Islamic Republic to a Secular Democratic society. It is an impressive document. I am glad that both he and his son are safe.
Ps. I read the document in hard print, that is why I can not provide a link.
Hats off to all brave Iranians
by Cost-of-Progress on Fri Nov 19, 2010 09:57 AM PSTwho stand up to tyranny and injustice.
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IRAN FIRST
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Thank you Mehrdad jan for
by vildemose on Fri Nov 19, 2010 08:34 AM PSTThank you Mehrdad jan for reading.
My Salute to his father
by Bavafa on Fri Nov 19, 2010 07:50 AM PSTMay one day we have no political prisoners in Iran or any where in the world for that matter.
Thanks for writing about this. We should not let these stories go untold.
Mehrdad