Monday, April 17, 2006

Ganji Is Summoned Back to Iranian Prison But He Is Refusing To Obey the Request
By Eli Lake

This is part of his civil disobedience," Ramin Ahmedi* said yesterday. "He will not obey the unjust order. But he has proved that he is willing to pay that price. I think he does communicate a message to people around him by refusing to go. These are the small first acts of building that movement. "

Mr. Ahmedi said yesterday that Mr. Ganji's task now was to use his leadership to build and sustain a civil rights movement in Iran. "He has emerged as a leader. He is extremely popular among the activists from all parts of the spectrum. You have a leader and he has to build that movement."

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Ramin Ahmadi, a doctor, ( with Roya Hakakian, a journalist, and Payam Akhavan) co-founded The Iranian Human Rights Documentation. With the arrest of Baghi's wife and daughter who attended a series of workshops on human rights in Dubai, Ramin came under attack mainly by a group of Iranians many of them living in democratic countries ( and they exercised their freedom by participating in regime's last election and voting for Rafsanjani, a dominant figure in the assassination of Iranian writers and journalists.)