Wednesday, June 24, 2009

[neda and daw aung san suu kyi] apply the pressure

Al Jazeera reports:

Shirin Ebadi, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel peace prize winner, has told Al Jazeera that she is prepared to represent the family of a young woman shot dead during a protest in Tehran.

The woman, named as Neda Agha Soltan on social-networking websites, has become a symbol for people protesting against the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president.

Ebadi told Al Jazeera on Wednesday: "I am personally prepared to legally represent her family against the people who ordered the shooting and those who fired at her.

This Saturday, June 27th, is the sixth day after the murder and Thursday, July 30th is the 40th day. Hopefully, some sort of massive protest will ensue in Iran.

Some notes

1. One wonders how much protest there would have been if it had been the music teacher killed or some old man. Of all the people to shoot, why a girl who could easily become a catalyst for the end of the Islamic oppression?

2. It wouldn't have saved her but all that shouting around her could hardly have been a nice way to go. To feel that bad and to have people near you screaming at you would not help your passing.

3. I notice that many blogsites have now dropped off this topic but if we mean it, we should keep referring to it at least every two days, plus on those key days, just to keep it fresh. Otherwise she died for nothing.

4. The demonstrations and press in Los Angeles were exemplary but how to transfer that anger to the Iranian blockheads? The net has been great and that pressure will keep up. Perhaps we should be noting Iranian bloggers and thinking out what we can do to support them - the problem, of course, being their providers.

4 comments:

  1. Pity we didn't have human rights lawyers offering to get involved over Jean Charles de Menezes. Unfortunatly the UK plod know who they can execute without too much of a fuss.

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  2. Keep up the good work I am going to run something on this very soon.

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  3. Lord T - too true.

    TEV - good that you will.

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  4. I have added a number of additinal bloggers to my main list. They ahve been very useful as an additional source of news and information.

    As for mainatining coverage of event. I can safely say that I will be continuing to do so.

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