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Wednesday, December 19, 2007






Asieh Amini










News in brief-
Asieh Amini , journalist, blogger and human rights advocate in her blog wrote:

"Yesterday was a day of protest to the arrest of Maryam Hoseinkhah and Jelveh Javaheri . The event took place in the office of the Association of journalists ."
"In my speech , i said that ; In one hand , our country has signed an agreement in 2003 in Geneva and agreed to undertake the developement of free flow of information in the country , particularly for women. according to the article 12, section A , the statement on principle, ask the country to use all technical services, softwares and ....what it has in its power to put into its service for that purpose. "
"While the government has given a written undertaking ( yesterday was its fourth year) to support freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of information , exchange in communication and developement of internet....! I asked the participants without my judgement in my speech to judge themselves and to compare todays situation with those agreements and the situation of Maryam and jelveh who's crime is infact the implementation of those agreements and so on . And i said ; do the signatories to these agreement have answer, not to us but to those who have put their signature beside their signatures?"
"In the other hand, the problem is that ; the condition is moving in a way that their won't be any news about the women's rights defenders and human rights defenders.Because today , the women rights activists and human rights defenders themselves have become the victims of human rights , without getting help from any organizations, association or union group for their independent, volunteer activity and ........"
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1 Comments:

  • I was very compelled by the story of this 16 year old girl. I was just wondering if anyone has a contact information on the journalist that did the documentary on the story. Her name is Asieh Amini. I would like to get some more detailed info so i can pay a tribute to this girl. My email address is gstylesmusic@hotmail.com thank you and GOD BLESS

    By Blogger superG, At 9:52 PM  

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