Latest Iran Video: Maziar Bahari on Britain's Channel 4 (4 January)

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, detained in Iran from June until October, has given another interview on his experiences and thoughts on the political conflict --- this discussion follows his November reflections on US television with CBS and with CNN.



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Comments

[Nelly]

You see how it might have helped Baharis case that a highplaced official (Hillary Clinton) asked attention for his situation.
Amnesty International started a campaign for the release of student leader Majid Tavakoli http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE13/131/2009/en/d71b0870-44f3-4376-ae69-e3009314e44b/mde131312009en.html
Could we all support this campaign? It's maybe one of the few things we could do from outside Iran in support of the Green Momevement.
I asked my Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxime Verhagen, attention for the case of Majid Tavakoli and asked him if the Netherlands or EU could do something for Tavakoli. Verhagen is on Twitter, so you can ask him the same question
http://twitter.com/maximeVerhagen

[Catherine]

Nelly - I looked for your tweet on http://twitter.com/maximeVerhagen and couldn't find it - or did you ask him another way?
To all here on Twitter who want to bring this up with the Dutch foreign minister - feel free to ask him in English to be vocal about Takavoli's case. Minister Verhagen has established human rights as one of the spear points of his foreign policy, and if he gets lots of tweets about this he'll probably act.

[Nelly]

@Catherine,

Since I don't have a Twitter account, I sent my request by e-mail to the Ministery of Foreign Affairs. They mailed me back that my request is being send to the proper official in the Ministery, so I hope it will reach the Minister.

[Catherine]

Nellie,
If you still have your e-mail in your sent mail re-send it to this address too:
DMH-MR@minbuza.nl
It's the Human Rights division of the Human Rights, Good Government and Humanitary Aid Directorate (Mensenrechten, Goed Bestuur en Humanitaire Hulp - DMH)

[Nelly]

@ Catherine
I'll write an e-mail to this adress too, did you do it and got a reply yet? Succes!