Word: evins
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Similarly, Socialist politician Claude Evin - the former health minister who authored the 1991 law behind the current rumpus - lamented the "ridiculous" efforts to erase signs of the very real smoking habits Tati and Chanel had in their lifetimes. Asked by reporters if she supported Métrobus' application of the law, current Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot replied in alarm, "Ah non, I'm not for taking Jacques Tati's pipe away from...
...Jahanbegloo was detained on the grounds of Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport and subsequently placed in solitary confidement at the notorious Evin prison...
After being detained on the grounds of the Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, Jahanbegloo was imprisoned at the notorious Evin prison, the same prison that Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested for allegedly photographing in 2003. Kazemi died after 19 days in Iranian custody, setting off a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Tehran...
...face stiff penalties for exercising their right to free speech. Since April 2000, nearly 100 newspapers have been shut down because bold journalists dared to challenge the regime. One of the most prominent among them, Akbar Ganji, is currently serving his sixth year in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. He was thrown in jail for publishing articles implicating the regime in a series of murders, but his resolute defiance has made him the most famous political prisoner in the country. Last May, Ganji went on a hunger strike to protest his incarceration. In deteriorating health, he released...
...hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. So instead of waiting for agents to knock on her door, she told her husband and two children that she was going away to visit a friend. To avoid a traumatic scene, Ebadi slipped off to an Islamic court and turned herself in to a magistrate. She was taken...