Author: Maryam Namazie
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On Atefeh Rajabi’s execution in Iran
International TV interview with Maryam Kousha September 27, 2004 Maryam Namazie: Atefeh Rajabi, a 16 year old girl, was executed on August 15, 2004 by the Islamic regime of Iran for ‘acts incompatible with chastity’. The judge personally put the rope around her neck and left her body hanging in the city square for 45…
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No more hostages in Iraq
International TV interview with Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush September 27, 2004 Maryam Namazie: I want to start with the latest hostages that have been taken by Islamists. They have already killed the two Americans – Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong. There is a Briton who is still being held – Kenneth Bigley. We have…
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I object! On the slaughter in Beslan
I object! On the slaughter in Beslan Maryam Namazie Published in WPI Briefing September 9, 2004 Beslan must be the last straw for anyone and everyone who abhors terrorism and its consequences, including those who still might have felt even after 9/11, Madrid, the beheadings and hostage-takings that these acts were somehow justified or at…
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This should be the last straw for anyone
International TV interview with Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya September 6, 2004 Maryam Namazie: Let’s talk about the horrendous and tragic situation in Beslan. We know that over 1,000 people were held hostage. Over 300 were killed. 150 plus of those so far are children. It is an immense human tragedy. Are there any words…
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No, She Was Not Mad
No, She Was Not Mad Maryam Namazie Published in WPI Briefing August 24, 2004 16 year old Atefeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran on 15 August for “acts incompatible with chastity” after having been arrested a few months earlier for having sexual relations.…
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No-one will accept this grotesque violation
International TV interview with Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya August 23, 2004 Maryam Namazie: Four labour activists – Mahmoud Salehi, the head of the Bakers’ Union of Saqez, Jalal Hosseini, Borhan Divargar and Mohammad Abdipour who had been previously arrested, have now been summoned to court again in Iran. Can you please tell us exactly…
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Nationalism divides
International TV interview with Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush August 2004 Maryam Namazie: We’re going to be speaking about the Iranian world Judo champion’s refusal to compete with an Israeli athlete in the Olympics because he said he wanted to support and defend the Palestinian cause and he was proud to withdraw as a result.…
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Islamophobia: No can do
Islamophobia: No can do Maryam Namazie Published in Iranian.com August 12, 2004 Imagine at a synagogue somewhere in London, Jews are working together to send out £1m worth of books, DVDs and videos about Judaism and the Torah as an act of ‘self-defence’ against anti-Semitism and ‘Judaism-phobia’. Or imagine black South Africans during Apartheid sending…
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Faith schools mean fewer rights for children
International TV interview with Bahram Soroush August 9, 2004 Maryam Namazie: People who are against faith schools often say that it causes segregation, perpetrates a system of apartheid that it separates children of ‘different religions’ from each other. Would you agree or disagree with that? Bahram Soroush: I would agree with that. We are supposed…
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Is terrorism ever justified?
International TV interview with Bahram Soroush August 9, 2004 Maryam Namazie: I want to ask you about the phenomenon of terrorism. The Iranian President Khatami has just said ‘the roots of terrorism are in injustice, and in order to get rid of the horror of terrorism, people must try to restore justice in the world’.…