Monday, April 04, 2005

Iranian Truth: I've noticed also that there's a lot of emphasis on human rights in your blog. What do you think the biggest human rights abuses are in Iran? Sheema Kalbasi: Institutionalizing an apartheid system based on gender and adherence to a particular clerical class; mass murdering of the dissidents and religious minorities; desecration and destruction of holy sites and cemeteries of people of "unrecognized faith"; denying higher education and work to Bahaies; cruel punishments such as stoning; arbitrary arrests of journalists, bloggers, Jews; gender discrimination; public executions; flogging,... I could add a few more items to the list but I'm running out of breath! The Iranian Truth has done several interviews with the Iranian English bloggers. They will appear under Interviews on the right side of his blog.