Clotilde Reiss is on trial in Iran.

[Christine Murray]

I am adding this OP here and linking it to the Watching Amahdinejad thread : http://www.politics.ie/current-affai...dinejad-3.html

The show trials continue apace in Iran with French Citizen , age 23 confessing to spying:

French student Clotilde Reiss's ‘confession’ at Iran court sparks outrage - Times Online

The woman in the picture in the veil is not the young woman who is pictured in another article but a shadow of herself,
she was arrested at Tehran airport after taking pics at one of the democracy demonstrations.

France demands release of student Clotilde Reiss by Tehran - Times Online

As Cactus pointed out the sentence for spying is death, interestingly Hossein Rassam has also confessed, it appears necessary
for Amahdinejad to underscore his fakery with threat against citizens of the West, and unlike the Saberi case he's not exactly
intervening in these abuses which include allegations of torture and rape:

Related Link: BBC NEWS | Middle East | EU hits out at Tehran over trial

[Christine Murray]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6O3GYDiAus]YouTube - Clotilde Reiss, Lille student jailed in Iran, July 2009[/ame]

You tube pics.

[cactusflower]

I am adding this OP here and linking it to the Watching Amahdinejad thread : http://www.politics.ie/current-affai...dinejad-3.html

The show trials continue apace in Iran with French Citizen , age 23 confessing to spying:

French student Clotilde Reiss's ‘confession’ at Iran court sparks outrage - Times Online

The woman in the picture in the veil is not the young woman who is pictured in another article but a shadow of herself,
she was arrested at Tehran airport after taking pics at one of the democracy demonstrations.

France demands release of student Clotilde Reiss by Tehran - Times Online

As Cactus pointed out the sentence for spying is death, interestingly Hossein Rassam has also confessed, it appears necessary
for Amahdinejad to underscore his fakery with threat against citizens of the West, and unlike the Saberi case he's not exactly
intervening in these abuses which include allegations of torture and rape:

Related Link: BBC NEWS | Middle East | EU hits out at Tehran over trial

Did you not read the reports yesterday, in which the Iranian authorities said that three policemen had been dismisssed and were being investigated for attacking prisoners?

The Saberi case was another woman spy, a professional. She did not allege torture or rape. Neither has this woman.

Ms Reiss, the daughter of Rémi Reiss, a nuclear engineer, admitted attending an anti-government demonstration in Isfahan, where she had spent five months as an assistant university teacher. She acknowledged sending an e-mail to friends and a report to a French-run institute of Iranian studies.

“I wrote a one-page report and submitted it to an official at the cultural section of the French Embassy who was not a diplomat. I should not have taken part in illegal activities. I realise this was a mistake,” she said, speaking in fluent Farsi.

“I apologise to the court and the people of Iran, and I hope they will forgive me.”

I welcome these threads, as they highlight the extent of interference and convert action being carried out by the Western powers who are dying to get their hands back on Iranian oil.

These little girls, like the ones in Korea, may be deliberately being thrown to the dogs by their employers for a little propoganda value.

As one of the comments on the video said:


ESPIONNE DE LA FRANCE...
ELLE TRAVAILLAIT A LAMBASSADE DE FR$ANCE Pauvre naive!!! Erreur de JugeMent

LA France fait faire son sale boulot par des jeunes Filles Naives, innocentes, la presse francaise tente de nous faire passer la petite pour une naive etudiante..

[Christine Murray]

Did you not read the reports yesterday, in which the Iranian authorities said that three policemen had been dismisssed and were being investigated for attacking prisoners?

The Saberi case was another woman spy, a professional. She did not allege torture or rape. Neither has this woman.



I welcome these threads, as they highlight the extent of interference and convert action being carried out by the Western powers who are dying to get their hands back on Iranian oil.

These little girls, like the ones in Korea, may be deliberately being thrown to the dogs by their employers for a little propoganda value.

As one of the comments on the video said:


ESPIONNE DE LA FRANCE...
ELLE TRAVAILLAIT A LAMBASSADE DE FR$ANCE Pauvre naive!!! Erreur de JugeMent

LA France fait faire son sale boulot par des jeunes Filles Naives, innocentes, la presse francaise tente de nous faire passer la petite pour une naive etudiante..

Tokenism.

Utter tokenism to dismiss a few cops, the trials are specifically there for one reason and that is to underpin the the now
utterly flawed and cracked attempt to fake an election result.

and who the fck said that Saberi was a spy? (link please)

And of course western prisoners are not raped, tortured and dissappeared. That happens to ordinary people.

[Christine Murray]

Top Iranian general: Let's prosecute opposition leaders - CNN.com

[cactusflower]

Do you really think these people are not US agents?

She admitted to copying classified documents.

A Persian view:

I wonder what the US officials would do if an American-Iranian who worked in Washington for three years without license for the Islamic Republic News Agency, and worked part time translator in the office of the US Senate and copied classified materials about the US attack to Iraq, and travelled to North Korea with her other passport and was arrested while buying pot in New York red district and shared an apartment with a underground rapper who is known as Hezbollah sympathizer.

I'm opposed to Islamic fundamentalist rule, but the Iranian people voted for it and I respect their right to self determination. And to their own oil. The US are torturing people - would you support an Islamic movement to overthrow their government on that basis?

All this covert messing is aimed at one result, and its nothing to do with democracy.

[Christine Murray]

I refuse to look at every issue of imprisonment and violence through a political lens, that is to me a pathology.

Are people who are journos, writers and academically involved in other nations disallowed travel because it may fall into
that pathology? To my mind Saberi is no more a spy than Reiss is- she was carrying a camera ffs.

Now she has fallen into the huge post-election fix-it by Amahdinejad and his generals who wish to prosecute organisers
of protests, opposition candidates and assorted travellers cos fear is something that is utilised to underscore
theocratic dominance.

what a heap of horsesh'it Cactus flower!

related link : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6790673.ece

[cactusflower]

I refuse to look at every issue of imprisonment and violence through a political lense, that is to me a pathology.
Are people who are journos, writers and academically involved in other nations disallowed travel because it may fall into
that pathology? To my mind Saberi is no more a spy than Reiss is- she was carrying a camera ffs.

Now she has fallen into the huge post-election fix-it by Amahdinejad and his generals who wish to prosecute organisers
of protests, opposition candidates and assorted travellers cos fear is something that is utilised to underscore
theocratic dominance.

what a heap of horsesh'it Cactus flower!

You are looking at it entirely through the political lens of American Foreign Policy.

You clearly haven't read the evidence about this woman before you posted. There is far more to it than carrying a camera. Saberi photocopied classified documents. The other woman provided a written report to a "non-diplomat" working at the French Embassy.

There is very extensive evidence of a vast amount of US (and European) interference in internal Iranian politics, including arming of terror groups. There is an official US budget for it fxs.

Are you aware of the numbers of times that this kind of horse ******************** has been used to undermine peoples' democratic choices?

[Christine Murray]

Iran imprisoned, tortured, brutalised and incarcerated women who organised the one million signature campaign. Mostly they
ended up at Evin Prison.

I signed the European/Western version did you?

Did you sign to force change in policy regarding Violence against women?

Do you expect that you should be imprisoned for standing up on issues pertinent to women?

If you imagine that a theocracy known for violent putdown of dissenting voices, including those of women writers,
intellectuals, activists, film-makers and journos is not utilising that exact type of repression against its guests such
as Saberi and Reiss then you are utterly politically naive and inacapable of judging each case on its merit.

Human Rights First | One Million Signature Campaign Timeline

Shirin Ebadi : http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p...i-autobio.html

[Clanrickard]

Are you aware of the numbers of times that this kind of horse ******************** has been used to undermine peoples' democratic choices?

What democratic choices would these be? You can't seriously think elections in Iran amount to democratic choices?