Can you imagine being put in prison for your right to speak freely? If I lived right now somewhere else, I could be put into prison just for writing my thoughts on a blog. This is reality.
Omid-Reza Mir-Siafi has died as a consequence of the torture he endured in the Evin Prison in Iran. He was imprisoned for speaking his opinion, for free speech as a blogger.
Iranian Blogger Dies in Prison. By Robert Mackey (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
Arrest and Transfer of Two Political Prisoners to General Section of Evin Prison (www.hra-iran.org)
See also:
English News at The Human Rights Activits in Iran site (www.hra-iran.org)
Iran: Appel à une enquête internationale sur le meurtre par empoisonnement de prisonniers politiques. À la suite de la mort suspecte d’un prisonnier politique (www.ncr-iran.org)
This ought not to have happened. But it happens, all the time.
In connection with this, see also:
The price paid for blogging Iran. By Clark Boyd (BBC)
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