RoshalatTV Interview With Mr. Mohamad Sedigh Kabudvand
Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan
January 11, 2007
RoshalatTV: Kurdish political activists want all their brethren freed from the jails. We are interviewing Mr. Mohamad Sediq Kabudvand today to hear the views of The Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan on the many activists, writers, reporters, and freethinkers that have been jailed in Kurdistan. A petition has already been published by Mr. Kabudvand on this issue. Hello, Mr. Mohamad Sadiq Kabudvand. What were you hoping to accomplish by publishing this petition?
Mohamad Sedigh Kabudvand: Since the Iranian Islamic Regime has come into power, only five or six Kurdish newspapers have been licensed for publishing inside Iran. Three of those have now been shut down forcibly by the government, with their staff jailed or summoned to court to be interviewed or sentenced. Peyama Mardom has active or recent court cases for thirteen of its writers. The weekly publication Aso has four staff members summoned to court, while Roshalat weekly has three. The weekly Karaftoo also has three members summoned into hearings. The daily Ashti has had two contributors summoned. Many college publications have also been shut down. The college students are under constant surveillance and have been interrogated or suspended from their courses. The Regime is not going to let up any time soon. This is a constant pressure.
RoshalatTV: Please condense your petition’s statement for us and tell us what you wanted to gain by publishing it.
Mohamad Sediq Kabudvand: I think that reporters, publishers, and freethinkers are human and they are simply following normal occupations found in humankind. Right now in Kurdistan the Iranian government is denying this human right to the people. We who signed the petition want the government to cease its arrest and detainment of citizens and students. We want the Iranian Islamic Regime to allow peaceful protests, rather than creating a worse situation.
RoshalatTV: Mr. Mohamad Sadiq Kabudvand, representative of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, thank you for your time and for speaking with us.
Translated by Samrand Moradi
January 11, 2007
RoshalatTV: Kurdish political activists want all their brethren freed from the jails. We are interviewing Mr. Mohamad Sediq Kabudvand today to hear the views of The Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan on the many activists, writers, reporters, and freethinkers that have been jailed in Kurdistan. A petition has already been published by Mr. Kabudvand on this issue. Hello, Mr. Mohamad Sadiq Kabudvand. What were you hoping to accomplish by publishing this petition?
Mohamad Sedigh Kabudvand: Since the Iranian Islamic Regime has come into power, only five or six Kurdish newspapers have been licensed for publishing inside Iran. Three of those have now been shut down forcibly by the government, with their staff jailed or summoned to court to be interviewed or sentenced. Peyama Mardom has active or recent court cases for thirteen of its writers. The weekly publication Aso has four staff members summoned to court, while Roshalat weekly has three. The weekly Karaftoo also has three members summoned into hearings. The daily Ashti has had two contributors summoned. Many college publications have also been shut down. The college students are under constant surveillance and have been interrogated or suspended from their courses. The Regime is not going to let up any time soon. This is a constant pressure.
RoshalatTV: Please condense your petition’s statement for us and tell us what you wanted to gain by publishing it.
Mohamad Sediq Kabudvand: I think that reporters, publishers, and freethinkers are human and they are simply following normal occupations found in humankind. Right now in Kurdistan the Iranian government is denying this human right to the people. We who signed the petition want the government to cease its arrest and detainment of citizens and students. We want the Iranian Islamic Regime to allow peaceful protests, rather than creating a worse situation.
RoshalatTV: Mr. Mohamad Sadiq Kabudvand, representative of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, thank you for your time and for speaking with us.
Translated by Samrand Moradi
posted by Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan ( RMMK ) | 12:33
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