Filmdirector Bahman Farmanara wrote in an open letter to his friends that even if this means he makes no more films, he can not be silent by ignoring the bloody death of NEDA on the streets of Tehran.
He believes in what Shakespeare says that "A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never tastes death but once."
Among other things he writes that it is paramount that he does not dance to any Official Tune, because at the age of 68, it is not very honorable.
He ends with a quotation from a poem by esteemed poet SIMIN BEHBAHANI which ironically was written in 1973, six years before the Islamic Revolution.
"Where Silver rules, Gold becomes God,
Where Lie can be the judge and jury in every case,
Where the air, the air we breathe, the air sustaining life,
becomes the muffling blanket on the voices of hundreds…"
He hopes for the day that the sounds of freedom and social justice ring throughout the ancient homeland, and they can sing the hymn "Oh, Iran!" together, with this belief that the country is a blessed one.
source: Payvand
Newspaper The Guardian writes that the powerstruggle in Iran is moving from the streets to the heart of the regime.Fars newsagency reported that eight local employees of British Embassy are detained for an alleged role in postelection protests, but gave no further details.
source: nytimes.com
Global Voices Online reports that the website gerdab, (which means ‘vortex')and belongs to The Information Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for Investigating Organized Crime, shows images of 20 people with red circles drawn around their faces claiming without evidence that they have been involved in creating “chaos” in Tehran.Citizens are invited to identify the people on the photos.
Some Islamist bloggers have republished the photos.
Some supporters of the protest movement have themselves published several photos of Iranian security forces and in particular suspected undercoveragents asking citizens to help identify them.
Often, identifications made in this way, are faulty. It would not be the first time that a photo has led to trouble or imprisonment.
source: GlobalVoicesOnline
GlobalVoicesOnline has a special chronological coverage page on the Iranian Elections 2009.
Unconfirmed list of dead, imprisoned or missing persons in Iran
http://iran.whyweprotest.net/missing-persons/2346-list-killed-arrested-english.html#post18617
In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.
Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl
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