Saturday, March 17, 2007
Few know who is held behind the tiled walls of Tehran's Evin prison - Globe and Mail
Iran's baby boom created a generation that now feels stifled by the spirit of 1979
Two weeks ago, plainclothes officers stopped three women as they were about to board an airplane at Tehran airport, loaded them into cars, and took them away without explanation.
They became the latest people to disappear into a place that all educated Iranians know and fear, a place known as Section 209. These women were writers with relatively moderate views, on their way to attend a journalism seminar in India.
They had government permission to attend, their passports had been stamped and none of them had ever had problems with the law.
Mansoureh Shojai, Sadigheh Taghinia and Farnaz Seifi were lucky: They were released on bail after a day of frightening interrogation, and charged with the nebulous crime of "acting against national security." Countless others remained in cells around them, held for months without charge.
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The wing is forever associated, in the minds of both Iranians and Canadians, with Zahra Kazemi, the Montreal photographer who was arrested while taking pictures outside the prison in 2003. Inside, she was tortured, brutally abused and then beaten to death. ...
Iran's baby boom created a generation that now feels stifled by the spirit of 1979
Two weeks ago, plainclothes officers stopped three women as they were about to board an airplane at Tehran airport, loaded them into cars, and took them away without explanation.
They became the latest people to disappear into a place that all educated Iranians know and fear, a place known as Section 209. These women were writers with relatively moderate views, on their way to attend a journalism seminar in India.
They had government permission to attend, their passports had been stamped and none of them had ever had problems with the law.
Mansoureh Shojai, Sadigheh Taghinia and Farnaz Seifi were lucky: They were released on bail after a day of frightening interrogation, and charged with the nebulous crime of "acting against national security." Countless others remained in cells around them, held for months without charge.
...
The wing is forever associated, in the minds of both Iranians and Canadians, with Zahra Kazemi, the Montreal photographer who was arrested while taking pictures outside the prison in 2003. Inside, she was tortured, brutally abused and then beaten to death. ...
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