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| Iranian writer wins award from US rights group |
| 2005-03-09 |
| WASHINGTON — The Iranian author Taqi Rahmani, who is spending his 17th year in prison, received an award and grant for persecuted writers, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Rahmani, 45, was chosen for the Hellman/Hammett award given every year to writers who suffer reprisals for expressing views that a government opposes. Rahmani's writings on religious modernism and the political history of Iran have criticised the 'relationship between religion and politics' in Iran and its 'adverse effects' on democratic development, Human Rights Watch said. Rahmani has been in and out of prison for a total of 17 years. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Somehow, I hardly believe that an award does anything for someone who's been sitting in a jail cell for seventeen years. If HRW was really serious about rights, they'd be supporting the masses in Iran that wish to be freed from the yoke of the Mullahs. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-09 10:51:59 AM |