Thursday, July 16, 2009

For Freedom!


Freedom...Freedom...
We grow up with this word, we dream this word, we live this word, yet each time we'd define waht freedom means to us.
Yaghoub Barvayeh, 27, from Ahvaz, student of theatre for master degree at Tehran University, was shot on in the head on June 25 by forces of the paramilitary Bassij.He died in July 1st.
He uttered his last words before he passed away: "Mom, I'm dying for Freedom!"
Read more in Mothers of Laleh website.

Listen to journalist Roger Cohen who stayed in Iran to cover the post-presidential election protests, in Fresh Air.

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