While the global community of journalists could only helplessly stand by, shrugging in bafflement as they were kept at bay deliberately by the Iranian government, it seemed that we would never truly know what was happening inside the tumultuous country following its hotly contested election last month. The world simply waited, wondering what we would hear once the chaos reached its peak, and when we would hear it.
And then along came Twitter. (more…)
Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi isn’t intimidated by police force. When her human rights group’s office was shut down by Iranian police last year, she told them, “You might have closed my apartment, but you can’t shut my mouth.”
Ebadi, 61, has kept her word. In light of the recent controversial Iranian election, she has called for peace, saying that she expects “the international community to prevent the pursuit of violence by the government.” (more…)