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Written by Fred Petrossian
Banning people from traveling abroad has been an old practice used by the Iranian state to raise pressure on political and civil society activists for years. However, a security court created a stir recently by banning foreign travel for jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband and their 13-year-old daughter, Mehraveh Khandan. Nasrin Stoudeh has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Ensiloos writes [fa]:
Mehraveh’s father says in his Facebook that even if his daughter, Mehraveh, had committed a crime, she should have been summoned to a court for minors, not to Evin [prison].
Haghemoslamema says [fa]:
We should activate a “campaign for innocent children” to let the whole world know about the Islamic regime [Iranian regime].The blogger asks with irony what is Mehraveh’s crime: Being Nasrin Stoudeh’s daughter, being a 13-year old kid, loving her parents, taking care of her younger brother… in reality only Ali Khamenei knows what crime this girl committed… we should not give up on Mehraveh’s case, if not, all political prisoners’ will be sent to Evin prison.
The blogger also published a photo of Mehraveh with her brother:
Mehraveh Khandan and her brother. Image from haghmosalamma.blogspot.ca.
GreenCity wrote [fa] only on July 8, 2012, that the Head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, Javad Larijani, publicly denied the existence of political prisoners in Iran. Today, Monday 16 July, Mehraveh’s case came to light.
Jomhouriat writes [fa], “my country is proud of this innocent girl whose travel ban shows the [Iranian] Islamic Republic is collapsing.”
It is not the first time Nasrin’s children have highlighted the pain of political prisoners’ families. About a month ago, Iranian social networking site users shared the following video footage of Nasrin Sotoudeh trying to play with her four year old son through a window in a prison visit.
This post was originally published by Global Voices.
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Interesting! But nurturing a kid is the responsibility of both parents and everyone in the family. So,…
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+ add your ownWomen& young girls should be properly respected & treated legally not by some evil nutty old men with inhuman laws.
wow. just wow
Von C.: Fact check. The last Shah of Iran, Rexa Pahlavi, died in exile in Egypt in 1980. BTW, USA stated a coup in 1953 and overturned the democraticly elected PM, because he did something awful: He nationalized the oil corporations and the British and American Governments couldn't stand to see their friends lose their power over a small country with lots of black gold. If United States stopped meddeling in other countries internal affairs, specially when those countries have a democraticly elected Government, the world would be a much better place! Guatemala also had a democratic Government and CIA overtrow it aswell. Chile 1973 is another example.
Hello Maria D.,
You can't, because it's written by men, for men.
The reality today is that many men have no respect for women. Not just in the middle east, but around the world.
AREN' T ALMOST SIMILIAR LAWS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN AMERICA. IF YOU SPEAK AGAINST THE MAJORITY, YOU'RE LABELED HATER, TERRORIST, ETCETERA? THAT WAY OF THE WORLD IS SPREADING LIKE A CANCER.
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Well after all this years, I still can't understand muslims laws.
Noted.
David A.
We did nothing to remove the Shah from power, he was shot and killed in his country by the people trying to put the Ayatollah in charge. We liked the Shah, he was one of our best customers of military goods. Don't have to read any revisionist history stories, lived it, my dad was there when it all went down.
No and they could care less about animals.
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