Iranian philosopher & intellectual Jahanbegloo arrested

[JohnLocke]

Iranian philosopher Jahanbegloo arrested
Reuters -- Wednesday, May 3, 2006
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TEHRAN--Prominent Iranian philosopher and writer Ramin Jahanbegloo has been arrested on unspecified charges, judiciary officials said on Wednesday.
Deputy Tehran Prosecutor Mahmoud Salarkia told the ISNA students news agency Jahanbegloo was being held in the capital's notorious Evin prison, where most of Iran's jailed political dissidents are held.
Charges against Jahanbegloo, who also holds Canadian citizenship, "will be announced after the interrogations," an unnamed judiciary official told the Etemad-e Melli newspaper.
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Rights groups frequently lambaste Iran for detaining pro-reform writers, journalists and intellectuals without due legal process.
Jahanbegloo, educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and Harvard University, has written more than 20 books in English, French and Persian on subjects such as Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and liberal political philosopher Isaiah Berlin.
Head of the Department for Contemporary Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, he has also lectured on the prospects for democracy in Iran and on whether the Islamic state can engage with the West.
His arrest was lamented at a gathering at the Association of Iranian Journalists on Wednesday.
"It has not been announced why (Jahanbegloo was arrested) but we hope the day will come when no-one is held ... before being tried by an open court," said liberal cleric Mohsen Kadivar, who himself was jailed in the past for outspoken criticism of Iran's political leaders.
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Iran's judiciary has arrested dozens of journalists and closed more than hundred publications since 2000.
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[rocktivity]

1. Charges will be announced AFTER the "interrogations?"

I guess that's because the charges will depend on what they can force him to confess to!

:headbang:
rocknation

[JohnLocke]

3. Welcome to an "Islamic republic."

[villager]

2. Bush must be envious as hell

No wonder he's gonna attack!

[tatertop]

4. Bush is only one step behind

[NYC Liberal]

6. Not necessarily even that far.

[magellan]

5. I'd love to hear Bush** use this as another example of why Iran needs

...regime change. Particularly after 6 years of fostering RW contempt for Jahanbegloo's counterparts in this country for being part of the "liberal elite".

[JohnLocke]

7. Kick (nt).

[grottieyottie]

8. Free Peltier

"Amnesty International considers Leonard Peltier to be a political prisoner whose avenues of redress have long been exhausted.... Amnesty International recognizes that a retrial is no longer a feasible option and believes that Leonard Peltier should be immediately and unconditionally released."

-- Amnesty International, April 6, 1999

[grottieyottie]

9. Where's the moral compass?

Rights groups frequently lambaste Iran for detaining pro-reform writers, journalists and intellectuals without due legal process.

Washington to defend record on torture before UN
By Frances Williams in Geneva
Published: May 4 2006 18:40 | Last updated: May 4 2006 18:40

United NationsWashington will on Friday be called upon to defend its record on torture before an international forum for the first time since the September 11 attacks on the US sparked the “war on terror”.

The US has sent a 30-strong delegation to Geneva to answer questions from the United Nations committee against torture concerning abusive treatment of detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan.

SNIP

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b80cf032-db92-11da-98a8-0000779e2340.html

There is no defense for http://www.chris-floyd.com/isahaqi/">this or this.