Comments on: Roxana Saberi advocates for Iran’s “prisoners of conscience” http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/3918 Documenting the Persecution of the Baha'i Community in Iran Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:45:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: sb http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/3918/comment-page-1#comment-2493 sb Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:57:12 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=3918#comment-2493 I am sincerely grateful to Ms. Sabieri for mentioning the seven Baha'i prisoners jailed for more than one year in Evin without access to their lawyer in her Washington Post article. Ms. Sabieri’s implications regarding her prison experience is chilling. She readily admits to giving in to her interrogators’ accusation that she was a “spy.” Doing so was obviously a survival stratagem in her case. By her account, her prison interrogators then admitted that they knew she was lying when she "admitted" to the false charges. I hope the world appreciates that the Baha'i prisoners in Iran do not have the luxury of phony capitulation to trumped-up charges made against them. I am sincerely grateful to Ms. Sabieri for mentioning the seven Baha’i prisoners jailed for more than one year in Evin without access to their lawyer in her Washington Post article.

Ms. Sabieri’s implications regarding her prison experience is chilling. She readily admits to giving in to her interrogators’ accusation that she was a “spy.” Doing so was obviously a survival stratagem in her case. By her account, her prison interrogators then admitted that they knew she was lying when she “admitted” to the false charges. I hope the world appreciates that the Baha’i prisoners in Iran do not have the luxury of phony capitulation to trumped-up charges made against them.

]]> By: Ali http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/3918/comment-page-1#comment-2490 Ali Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:55:19 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=3918#comment-2490 Perhaps now that the world through divine providence can hear first hand what goes on in Evin, some one important can call on Aya Khamenie to tear down Evin like Reagan did to Gorbachev when he called on him to tear down the Wall. Perhaps now that the world through divine providence can hear first hand what goes on in Evin, some one important can call on Aya Khamenie to tear down Evin like Reagan did to Gorbachev when he called on him to tear down the Wall.

]]> By: Puzzled http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/3918/comment-page-1#comment-2489 Puzzled Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:39:23 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=3918#comment-2489 My perception is that there are so many Iranian “prisoners of conscience.” I read Ms. Saberi’s entire article at the Washington Post and was astounded by the brutality that places dissidents in prison that at times seem like torture chambers. I can only hope that people who survive the Iran prison system and become policy makers someday will truly reform the justice system so that there is a due process justice system that makes attorney advocacy a right rather than a privilege. My perception is that there are so many Iranian “prisoners of conscience.” I read Ms. Saberi’s entire article at the Washington Post and was astounded by the brutality that places dissidents in prison that at times seem like torture chambers. I can only hope that people who survive the Iran prison system and become policy makers someday will truly reform the justice system so that there is a due process justice system that makes attorney advocacy a right rather than a privilege.

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