Word: azadi
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...just in case the emails, tweets and text messages had not yet gotten through, plans for the next day were confirmed face-to-face: "10 o'clock, Imam Hussain Square. Imam Hussain to Azadi...
Abid Baig is a salesman in a dried-fruits shop in Lal Chowk, the central shopping district of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's capital. But Baig's real calling is as a stone thrower. A familiar figure at protests for azadi, or freedom, that regularly clog Srinagar's streets, 21-year-old Baig is angry, blaming the pervasive Indian security presence for choking off his chance at a decent life. His parents pulled him out of school when he was just in 10th grade because they worried that their only child would be picked up by police trolling for militants. Baig...
...foot. "I'm not scared," said a banker as he headed for the sprawling Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, where many opposition "martyrs," including the iconic Neda Agha-Soltan, have been buried. He says the planned memorial service was especially poignant for him because he saw a protester shot at Azadi Square on June 20, the same day Agha-Soltan was killed a few kilometers away on Kargar Street...
Farther on, a student was standing a step up on a road divider, holding a poster that read, "220 Students Still Being Held," and on and on, the rally was like an information alley. "Tomorrow nothing is on, gather Saturday 4 p.m. Azadi!" was an oft-repeated mantra...
After Friday prayers, it was clear the state would deal harshly with demonstrators, and yet some 50,000 to 60,000 protesters were reported to have gathered at Azadi Square on June 20. One friend told me that police were preventing people from reaching the site, shouting at them to get back into subway stations and beating them back into adjoining streets and alleys. Based on most accounts, Saturday's clashes had the highest number of casualties. Although Iranian state media have reported between 10 and 13 deaths, chain e-mails distributed by government opposition report more than 20 deaths...