Posted on 01/24/2005 12:34:00 PM PST by Nachum
TEHRAN — The criminal seems younger than his 25 years. He is the quiet type, shy and lanky, peering solemnly through octagonal glasses. He has no weapons, not in the traditional sense.
His name is Hanif Mazroui, and the tools of his crime are a handful of ideas and skinny fingers flying over the keyboard. He is one of about 20 Iranian Web loggers and journalists who have been arrested and jailed in recent months.
Government prosecutors call Mazroui a violator of national security and an inciter of unrest. If you ask the nation's conservative mullahs, he's an acid eating away at the fabric of the Islamic revolution. He has done time in solitary confinement, and reportedly weathered death threats from judiciary officials.
Asked about his time in prison, Mazroui dropped his chin, studied his shoes and said, "I prefer not to talk about it."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Except for the part where they love to call Iran's fundamentalist regime "right wing", which while true, they do not make any effort to distinguish between the American Right Wing and the Islamic Right Wing, of which the American Right Wing is the equivalent of the Islamic Left Wing.
The right wing there means Traditional islamists
"Iraqis give a totally different picture than the MSM gives us -- there are a LOT of Iraqis who want a democracy."
Yup. The Messopotamian is one of my favorites.
La Times! Interesting overlook by the editor.
Tehran Times: US orders LA Times to write Anti Iran articles and thus US and Europe can not be trusted. Sarcasm.
This re repeated “US and Europe can not be trusted” statement by the mullahs reminds me of “Gravitos”
Why are these bloggers OK in their fight against oppression but US Bloggers are not ?
Must be those bloggers where a different type of pajama I guess.
where = wear
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