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December 23, 2010
December 23, 2010
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Diverting Attention

In EA, Masih Alinejad writes of the stoning case of Sakineh Ahstiani: "Put bluntly, the Government is exploiting the Ashtiani case to divert attention from the deaths and imprisonments of young women and men who oppose the fraudulent outcome of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election."
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December 23, 2010
December 23, 2010
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Protests in Geneva

Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who has fought for human rights in Iran has been in prison for several months and was on a dry hunger strike that threatened her life. "It's people like her that the Iranian government fears," Nobel laureate, Shirin Ebadi said. Shirin Ebadi and other activists staged a sit-in in Geneva in front of the UN's human rights in order to bring attention to her situation and to the situation of other prisoners of conscience in Iran's prisons. More at United4Iran.
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