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...indicted, often without charge, and many of the convicted are placed in solitary confinement or given prison terms in exile. Some of the most well known include Ronak Safazadeh, who disseminated information and collected signatures and was thus charged with the capital crime of armed activity against the state. Parvin Ardalan, co-founder of the “One Million Signatures Campaign” who was awarded Sweden’s illustrious Olaf Palme human rights award in March, was jailed last month along with three others for the crime of threatening national security. While the women?...
...factors made Harvard as much “home” this week as it ever could be. First, my family, en masse, has descended on Harvard. From Mama Ezy and Mommy Parvin down to little Alexa—we’re rolling “ten-deep.” That we means we’re always looking for an extra commencement ticket, that strangers and friends alike will be entrapped by our requests to snap group photos, and that the bet of the week is about whether my mom actually bought a full page...
...Parvin Heydari, an Iranian mother of two, was flipping back and forth between the nightly news and Oprah when a bulletin on an Iranian state channel caught her attention. It urged Iranians to boycott what it called "Zionist products," including those made by Pepsi, Nestl and Calvin Klein, and warned that profits from such products "are converted into bullets piercing the chests of Lebanese and Palestinian children." As evidence, the voice-over intoned, "Pepsi stands for 'pay each penny to save Israel.'" Heydari says she changed the channel, as she has no intention of crossing Nestl's Nesquik...
...editor of the Iranian Feminist Tribune, a website devoted to women's issues, Parvin Ardalan used to sit at her home computer each night, posting news articles on the site that the country's print press would never carry. She spread the word about sit-ins and seminars. At its busiest, the site attracted 70,000 visitors a day. But late last year, Ardalan received a text message from a friend informing her that the site had disappeared. Along with thousands of other websites--including opposition blogs like regimechange.blogspot.com and online retailers like Bloomingdales.com--the Feminist Tribune was blocked...
...wisecracking. But earlier this year, after surveying the string of press dinners on his calendar, Bush told aides, "Laura should give one of these." So there she was, rehearsing her shtick in front of her staff and Bush aides Nicolle Devenish and Dan Bartlett, as well as Landon Parvin, who penned her jokes. As she practiced, Laura cracked herself up but also asked her audience, "Do y'all think this is funny...