Last night, 23:00, Dr Sohrab Razzaghi, my previous boss at Iranian Civil Society Training and Resource Center was released from Prison. I think He spent around 28 days there and now he is free on bail. We will go to his house tonight to meet him and as a supporting act. Will write tomorrow about it.

Have a look:



Although you can not read Persian, I think that you are able to understand that this is a homework of a primary school student. It reads:

Hasan invented 918 Kilograms of Uranium.He sent 213 kilograms to the Bushehr Power Plant and 348 Kilograms to the Natanz. How much Uranium does he have?

     918-(213+348)=358
     (918-213)-348=358

Reminds me of the soviets and their homeworks about Lenin Submarine and it's speed :)

I'm spending bad days. Having problems with the security services because of my previous job as a technical person in an NGO. I'm not happy enought to blog these days. Just felt that I have to tell you that I'm OK (I mean free and alive). And not wasting your time, I think it would be goot to give you two links to check:

- Stop Filtering Flickr.... A photo about Flickrs filtering in Iran

- Access denied map, the recent post of my great friend Free Lantern.

Great news. Delaram's 30 months of prison seems to be suspended for a while. This is due to lobbying with the Head of the Judicary and a Reformist leader (Karrubi). As I said before, I think this is a positive step and I wish it works for a long time or totally suspend the prison for her.

Delaram is among human rights activists who live INSIDE Iran and as I know her she is another ANTI-WAR person. She should be able to say "I am an Iranian, I live in Iran and I work for human rights, AND I AM AGAINST THE WAR".

Yes. Against the usage of ANY kind of MILITARY FORCE against Iran. We believe that CHANGE should happen but WAR can not make the change. Iran is not a harsh dictatorship. Iran is not Iraq. We are working here, we are trying to enrich the civil society but a WAR will stop all the activities.

In an unprecedented and unexpected development Delaram Ali was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in appeals court. Delaram Ali was tried originally on 29 May 2007 for her participation in the June 12, 2006 protest in support of women’s rights in Hafte Tir Square which was violently broken up by police. Delaram was beaten severely during this protest, dragged on the ground by several police officers and subsequently arrested. She suffered a broken arm as a result of these severe beatings. Complaints were filed against police for use of excessive force and violence during the protest, by a number of women including Delaram. Last month though the judiciary found the police innocent in the case, and instead has now upheld a substantial portion of Delaram’s original sentence through an appeals court ruling.

She has to go to the prison in a few days. This seems to be the first time that a woman goes to the prison just because of her ideas regarding equality. Shirin Ebadi (nobel peace prize winner and her lawyer) told yesterday in a press conference to the governors: "Be brave! tell that a woman should go to the prison if she believes that men and women are equal. Why are hiding at the back of acting against national security and propaganda against the regime? Be brave and tell the world that SHE IS GOING TO THE PRISON AND HER CRIME IS: BELEIVING IN THE EQUALITY OF THE SEXES."

I liked this part but these speeches and press conferences are not going to change anything in an environment in which nobody has the right of talking about these issues in any media. She should have been in the prison yesterday but told "I will wait until Saturday and during these days will do some of my personal works". She is going to spend 30 months in prison with killers, drug dealers and prostitutes just because she believes in the wrongfulness of the discriminatory laws.

People are doing their best against this here. They are writing letters to the head of judiciary, they are writing on their weblogs, they are posting her photos but how much effect this will have? No much. But what else can be done? International organizations are also publishing their open letters, asking for justice and even they are speaking about sending and Human Rights Watch observer.. but delaram is going to the prison anyway. I think this is truth and we have to believe it.

There is a good news at last! My Persian blog (FreeKeyboard.net) is nominated for Reporters Without Borders Award for the freedom of expression at International Weblog Awards. You've never read my blog FreeKeyboard because it is in FARSI :) It is dedicated to the Freedom Of Speech and the Digital Rights. If you wanted to vote for me, The voting page and vote for me (and probably other blogs). I am on the Reporters Without Borders Award section: FreeKeyboard.

- The food is good, the weather is good.

This is one of the few sentences, Maziyar Same'i says. He adds "I am safe. I was arrested yesterday". He was arrested a few days ago just near his universities entrance. He should be in Evin Prison. I can say from the code: the weather is good (Evin is located at the north of Tehran with it's fresh air) and "the food is good" seems to be a reference to Kian Tajbakhsh who told the same sentence about Evin.

He is active in One million campaign and other social movements. He is brave person with a great ego. We can not believe the scale of the arrests. Right now I have 3 close friends in the prison and more than 7 with Prison sentences. Nobody feels safe and nobody understands "WHY?".

We (Most of my friends and I; I mean social activists inside Iran) are against the WAR! We are the voice of our civil society and we are shouting "We are against the WAR" but our government does his best to silent us! :) And the WAR seems to be the real problem for this government.

I don't know. Maybe they prefer the WAR, maybe they are sure that there won't be a war or maybe they are sure that the GOD will help them to defeat all the enemies.

Sohrab Razzaghi is still in prison with no clear reason. He was part of this Islamic government. He used to work at domestic affair and he has close relation with reformist groups within the regime. This way, the regime is loosing it's supporters. I can be a supporter for my regime, let alone someone like Razzaghi.

Many people are waiting for a knock on their door. hehe.. at least "The weather is good. The food is good".