Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Mehdi Saharkhiz: "Mr. Prosecutor You Are Sending My Father to the Gallows!"
Wednesday December 22nd, 2010 - In a letter addressed to Tehran's Prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Mehdi Saharkhiz, the son of Isa Saharkhiz incarcerated journalist demands that attention be paid to his father's dire physical condition. The content of the letter and his harsh words to Tehran's Prosecutor are as follows:
Mr. Prosecutor,
My father lost consciousness twice today and was taken to the prison's infirmary. Mr. Prosecutor as you are fully aware, the prison infirmary is not equipped to deal with my father's extremely dangerous and volatile blood pressure fluctuations. If you are unaware of the significance of this extreme rise and fall in blood pressure, I request that you please enlighten yourself through the medical specialists who report to you.
The medical specialists wrote you a letter in which they requested an MRI and further examination of my father's heart. The specialists stated that my father, Isa Saharkhiz is in no condition to endure incarceration given his deteriorating physical health and yet he was still deprived of his basic human and legal rights.
Mr. Prosecutor, even though I know that you are fully aware of everything that goes on within the prisons, I write to you yet again. I write to you to inform you of what my father is being forced to endure behind these prison walls, lest there be any excuses and apologies on the day he dies....
Allow me to warn you of the fate of your predecessor when a journalist was badly injured and killed in a prison during his watch. I remind you of how he signed off on the rape and murder of our youth; I remind you of the time when so many innocent people were killed on his orders. At the time, he was under the false impression that those in power would hold him in even higher esteem as a result of his actions. He was drunk with power and engulfed with reverence for his superiors and saw his future success and prosperity in pledging allegiance to that power.
Mr. prosecutor, even power comes with specific rules and is based on certain customs and traditions. The one element integral to power is the boundaries associated with its reign. Power buys people, power causes them to metamorphosize, power causes them to abandon themselves. Unfortunately, those who conquer become the shareholders of power, but power understands neither loyalty nor appreciation. Power only needs tools in order to grow. It rides on the shoulders of those who share it and will not hesitate to replace or eliminate one person for another in order to achieve its goals.
In the end, power remains with the one known as the executioner. The executioner who is exposed so power can advance; he is sacrificed so that the power he pledges allegiance to can be justified. Mr. Prosecutor what is happening to my father in prison today is no less than first degree murder, a slow and gradual murder. If the powers that be intended to sentence him to execution, fear of a scandal, has led them to select a slow and gradual execution instead. This time power is riding on your shoulders. You are the ink with which the truth will be told. If you chose to become an enabler for power remember that your future will not be bright. Today it may be the likes of Saharkhiz who are being punished, but tomorrow it will be you who will be indicted in court by the power you have pledge allegiance to. I am sure you too have read about those who were indicted for the crimes that occurred at Kahrizak prison.
Mr. Prosecutor, the evidence against you is clear today and when you are indicted, it will be noted that you ordered that a prisoner be denied medical attention even though you were aware that he was in dire need of treatment. It will be noted that you denied him treatment rather than forgo your power. I am perplexed that you had once said that you hold my father in high esteem. Is your definition of respect and holding someone in high esteem being an accomplice to his murder? No matter how strong and wide spread, power cannot murder its critics, it is unable to destroy them piece by piece without an accomplice. Do not become the hands with which power destroyed and murdered others, for power has no mercy; power does not comprehend loyalty.
Mr. Prosecutor, perhaps you should learn a lesson from the fate of the likes of Saeed Mortazavi.* You never know, the day may also come when your superior ends up biting you.**
Translator's Note: *Saeed Mortazavi is a controversial Iranian jurist and former prosecutor of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and Prosecutor General of Tehran, a position he has held from 2003 to 2009.He has been called as "butcher of the press" and "torturer of Tehran" and was held responsible for the crimes that occurred at Kahrizak prison after the controversial 2009 elections.
** Reference is made here to an incident on May 2004 in a meeting of the council that monitors the Iranian press, when Saharkhiz, who was representing the owners and editors of the press, confronted Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei, the hard-line cleric who was at that time the Prosecutor of the Special Court for the Clergy. Saharkhiz objected to Ejehei's remarks and said they were an insult against himself and intellectuals. Ejehei responded by first throwing heavy objects at Saharkhiz, then biting him. The bite mark was glaringly visible when Saharkhiz showed it off to reporters. He took Ejehei to court over the incident, but the case was referred to the Special Court for the Clergy and the case never went to trial
Translated by Banooye Sabz
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
!جناب دادستان، دارید پدر من را اعدام میکنید
!جناب دادستان، دارید پدر من را اعدام میکنید
جناب دادستان، پدر من امروز، دو بار در زندان شما،باز بی هوش شده و دو باره به بهداری زندان برده اند. جناب دادستان، بهداری زندان نمیتواند نوسانات فشار پدر من را کنترل کند. فشار خون پدرم، به شدت بالا رفته، و پس از آن به شدت پایین. اگر معنی این نوسانات شدید فشار خون را نمیدانید، لطف کنید از پزشکان مرتبط با حیطه مسئولتتان بپرسید!
پزشکان به شما نامه نوشته بودند و درخواست ام.آر.آی ایشان را کرده بودند، درخواست معاینه قلب ایشان را داده بودند. متخصصان گفته بودند که ایشان توانایی تحمل زندان را در این حالت وخیم جسمانی ندارند. اما دریغ از کوچک ترین بهره مندی از حقوق اولیه انسانی و قانونی.
جناب دادستان، هرچند که میدانم که خود از اخبار زندان خبر دار هستید، ولی باز به شما گفتم تا باز هم بشنوید در زندان تان بر پدر من چه میگذرد. تا دیگر عذر و بهانه ای در میان نباشد فردای روز مرگ پدرم.
شما را انذار میدهم به سرگذشت پیشینی تان، آنگاه که در زندان های تحت مسئولیتش، با جسم سخت خبرنگاری را کشتند، آنگاه که به امضایش، به جوانان در کهریزک تجاوز کردند، آن گاه که بی پناهانی با نظارت و به فرمانش کشته شدند. او فکر میکرد که ارج و قربش در نزد خدایگان قدرت، بیش از پیش میشود. خویشتن را در حال عبودیت مافوقش می دید و آن چنان مست قدرت بود که فردایش را نزدیک به مرکز قدرت و سعادت مند تر از مواهب قدرت.
اما آقای دادستان، قدرت قواعدی دارد و بر رسومی و سننی استوار. یکی از این سنن، آن است که تنها چیزی که برای قدرت اصل است، پاسداشت حریم حکمرانی ست. قدرت، برای اهتراز بیرق ولایتش، انسان ها را اجیر میکند، مسخ میکند، از خود بی خود میکند. دریغ که مسخر، خود را سهیم در قدرت می داند. اما قدرت نه وفا می شناسد، نه رسم قدردانی. قدرت ابزار میخواهد تا مرکب حرکتش شود. بر دوش مسخ شدگانش طی طریق میکند، و آنی که مرکب چموشی کند، یا لنگ زند، مرکبی دیگر میجوید، و مرکب پیشین را قربانی عوامفریبیش.
سرانجام قدرت را با او که جلاد نامیده بودندش، دیدید؟ او رسوا شد، تا قدرت بیاساید، او قربانی شد، تا قدرت، توجیه شود.
جناب دادستان، آنچه امروز در زندان بر پدر من میگذرد، قتل عمد است. اما قتلی تدریجی. اگر میل قدرت بر آن بوده که حکم اعدامش دهد، از ترس رسوایی، اعدام تدریجی را برگزیده. و این بار شما مرکب هستید و قدرت بر شما سوار. عامل قدرت اگر میشوید، مباد که فردای تان را روشن ببینید. حال امروز سحرخیزها، کیفرخواست فردای تان خواهد بود، و قدرت خود محکمه تان را برپا خواهد کرد. کیفرخواست جنایات کهریزک را که حتما خوانده اید!
جناب دادستان، امروز حجت بر شما تمام است، و در کیفرخواست تان مرقوم خواهد بود که می دانستید که یک زندانی، در زندان تحت امر شما، نیاز مبرم بر مراقبت پزشکی دارد، و شما از رخصت معالجه استنکاف میکردید، مبادا که خاطر قدرت را آزرده سازید.
در تعجبم از این که گفته بودید، برای پدرم احترام، قایل هستید. این چگونه احترام قایل شدنی است که در قتلش مباشر شوید.
قدرت هر چه ستبر باشد، و کلفتی اش افزون، اما خود دست ندارد که منتقدش را بکشد، ذره ذره آبش کند، دست های قدرت نشوید که قدرت وفا ندارد.
از داستان سعید مرتضوی عبرت بگیرید آقای دادستان. دور مپندارید روزی را که مافوق تان، شما را هم گاز بگیرد.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Exclusive: Iran Tehran Elm va sanat University Dec 20 2010 29 Azar 89
پخش نامه دانشجویان علم و صنعت به صادق لاریجانی در سلف دانشگاه-29 آذر89
Exclusive: Iran Tehran Elm va sanat University Dec 20 2010 29 Azar 89
spreading the letters to sadegh lariani
Monday, December 13, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Mehdi Saharkhiz Speech for youtube
When many of us have the time to watch a video we turn to one site: Youtube. Youtube's popularity is due to many factors, one of which is humor. How many of us in this room have laughed when we have watched a video of a toddler biting his brother's hand or a music video done on a treadmill,
or when a 16 year old kid beats Lady Gaga in the most watched video category? We clearly see how important a role Youtube plays in our lives, day in and day out.
We laugh, we dance, we even watch those fail moments, when a ramp is missed or a jump is blown and for a minute in the middle of our smiles, maybe some of us thank God it was not us on the bike or the car. Most people in this room can think of a moment on a video they watched on Youtube that brought a smile to their face.
But, for me Youtube is a place where I cried my eyes out as I watched an innocent girl bleed through her eyes. Youtube is a place where I have watched my brave fellow Iranians chased by thugs with batons on bikes who had zero shame using violence against their fellow countrymen and women. For me, Youtube is the cry for help from men surrounding a bleeding Iranian citizen whose "crime" was asking for his right to demonstrate peacefully.
Youtube became the outlet-the way to share the message of a sea of people on the streets of Iran as they marched in complete and utter silence in June 2009 after the fraudulent presidential election. Youtube took the place of the mainstream media who had done little to cover these brave Iranians and their stories until their blood was shed.
Youtube was proof of the opposition against the fraudulent elections, the Sea of Green. Youtube became the place to view the atrocities occurring in Iran, when no other media outlets paid great attention to Iran. The videos of Iranian police as they drove over a helpless body in the middle of Tehran, not once but 3 times, were viewed by thousands of people across the world. Youtube has been an instrument used by the brave people of Iran to display evidence of widespread oppression. With the aid of these powerful Youtube videos as evidence, one day the Iranian people will be able to condemn all the governmental criminals in a court of law.
Also, Youtube has the rare and unique power of being able to deliver messages of oppression to governmental leaders. For it was Youtube that was the vehicle in which President Obama was able to hear the voice of the people: you are either with us or with the Iranian government.
Youtube also has given me a chance to stand here a few miles from the White House and talk to all of you. It has given me a chance to send a message to President Obama that he should never negotiate with a government that has no fear or shame in killing its citizens to stay in power a few more years.
So yes, of course for many, Youtube is a place to watch a short video for pure entertainment. But for us it became the heartbeat and voice of a generation of oppressed Iranians. For us it became a place where people around the world made videos to support the Iranian people in their quest for freedom-A place for Iranian artists to share their music, and mix it with those horrible pictures out of Iran. Youtube became the way for us Iranians to express our needs, hopes and frustrations.
Youtube is a story of lives cut tragically short. It is about the hope that innocent blood has not been shed in vain. For the people of Iran, each second of a video is history recorded and archived forever. It is the instrument and reason that the world watched and has heard us. Without Youtube it could have not been possible. Each moment is etched into our minds as we watch them over and over again. And maybe more importantly, the images remain when the video is through playing.
It is these videos that are the keys to our future.
The bright future not only for Iran but for the world.
It is the reason each politician has to be careful of things they do and every police officer has to protect the people.
As the people of Iran put it so perfectly: Now is the time when the world is watching. And they're still watching -all thanks to one website: Youtube. Wednesday, December 01, 2010
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