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| Iranian students defy warnings, step up protests |
| 2002-11-18 |
| Thousands of Iranian university students on Monday defied warnings of a crackdown by stepping up their protests with vocal demands for greater freedom of speech. Witnesses said at least 5,000 massed at Tehran's Sharif university campus in a continuation of protests over the sentencing to death for blasphemy of prominent reformist academic Hashem Aghajari. "Our problem is not only the revision of the death sentence on Hashem Aghajari, but freedom of speech and freedom in general," Abdollah Momeni, a leader of the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU) student group, told the gathering. Breaking the principle of disagreement with the ayatollahs being disagreement with God breaks the keel of the ship of theocracy. If you don't have to follow blindly, then sometimes you might not even have to follow at all... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |