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| Mullahs prohibit award winner from traveling to U.S. ceremony |
| 2004-10-23 |
| (Top terrorists terrified someone may get a taste of freedom) Iranian officials have barred Iranian journalist and human rights activist Emadeddin Baghi from traveling to the United States for an awards ceremony in New York. Baghi was scheduled to receive the Civil Courage Prize from the Northcote Parkinson Fund, which honors "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk." Officials confiscated Baghi's passport and prevented him from boarding a flight out of Tehran on October 4. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that a state security agent informed Baghi that a court order prohibited him from leaving the country. In addition to attending the ceremony in New York, Baghi was planning to meet with human rights experts in the Netherlands and Canada. In 2000, the Iranian government jailed Baghi for publishing articles about the role of the country's intelligence ministry in the 1998 murders of several Iranian intellectuals and dissidents. After his release in February 2003, CPJ says that Baghi has been subjected to ongoing surveillance and court summonses. Baghi, who has authored 20 books, now heads the Committee for Defense of Prisoners Rights. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #3 Funny how that is, eh? Pubs are called fascists, but it's the LLL socialists who want to shut down free speech when it doesn't serve them. We'll sink or swim based upon the will of the people. We won't like losing to insane people, but the Rule of Law means something to the "right". We won't step over that line unless the Rule of Law breaks down... then we'll frog-march their asses to the border, methinks. ;-) The Mad Mullahs, well, that's just whatever mood they're in. Totalitarians do whatever they like -- until they're swinging from a lamppost, that is. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-10-23 5:58:58 PM |
| #2 sounds like a good choice, eh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-23 5:54:15 PM |
| #1 We let Micheal Morre spew his crap all over the place and we protect his right to say what he does because it is his right to do so. And the right of free speech is one of the foundations of the Republic. And we're the bad guys. But a theocracy, or is it a thugocracy like Iran/Cuba/NK/Pick one can pull this shit and how much you want to bet the Amnesty Int won't say squat |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2004-10-23 5:48:11 PM |