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All dear friends
 
Now, after 124 days, Fariba is at home. We all were  worry about her during those days... As her  mother and on behalf of FARIBA and  other family members, I  appreciate  all your kind & warm feelings ,..We were not alone, many kind and great hearts accompanied us during those sad days....
We all  are waiting for better future and permanent peace for world.

Best Regards
Farideh

Nous venons d'apprendre que FARIBA vient d'être libérée sous caution!!!

 
Un groupe de journalistes en Europe vient de créer un blog pour demander la libération de la journaliste iranienne Fariba Pajooh. S’y trouvent pour l’instant un communiqué au sujet de Fariba en plusieurs langues, des liens vers des articles de presse sur elle, et l’adresse mail pour une pétition à signer. On essaie de récolter un maximum de signatures le plus rapidement possible pour pouvoir déposer la pétition aux ambassades iraniennes. Pouvez-vous svp diffuser l’adresse de notre blog et l’adresse mail pour la pétition à vos contacts ?
 
Pour signer la pétition, envoyer votre nom à : freefariba@gmail.com
 
Le blog : http://freefariba.over-blog.com/

Dear all Fariba's friends
 
 We met Fraiba yesterday, (they changed the day of visiting from monday to sunday), through the glass divider.

She was so depressed, sad, angry, anxious ...She said that  the man who is responsible for her file  has told  her  last week : "Your file is complete and we have sent it to the prosecutor's  office" (DADSARA), but when we go to DADSARA they say : we got nothing, her file is not here.
Till now her lawyer couldn't meet Fariba however she has an official permission from the prosecutor's office.
Nowadays, she is in a cell with a woman who is smuggler. She takes 8-9 tablets for her depression and anxiety .
She is realy tired...
 
Best Wishes

Une conférence de presse, organisée par le Comité de soutien aux journalistes iraniens, s'est tenue ce mercredi 4 novembre à Bruxelles.

Nous y avons appris que Fariba, épuisée, a dû arrêter sa grève de la faim.

Voici le communiqué envoyé aux principaux médias: 

Conférence de presse

 Par les journalistes Belges

Le «Comité de Soutien» à Fariba Pajooh, et à tous les journalistes iraniens injustement emprisonnés, vous invite à cette Conférence de Presse qui aura le lieu:

Liberez

Fariba Pajooh

Elle est intelligente, dynamique, courageuse, elle n'a pas trente ans...

Depuis 3 mois elle est en prison!

Journaliste et blogueuse, elle a travaillé pour des journaux réformistes (Etemaad é Melli  notamment) qui ne paraissent plus, elle a raconté sur Internet sa joie de vivre dans une société où il n'y en a plus, elle était rieuse, patriote et optimiste...

Depuis près d'une semaine elle fait la grève de la faim!

Fariba Pajooh a été arrêtée le 22 août 2009 par des hommes en civil qui se sont présentés au domicile de ses parents à Teheran. «Ne vous inquiétez pas, ont ils dit à sa maman, nous avons quelques questions à lui poser, elle reviendra vite». Elle n'est toujours pas rentrée chez elle...

Nous avons choisi Fariba Pajooh, comme symbole, comme porte-drapeau, pour réclamer haut et fort la libération de tous les journalistes injustement emprisonnés en Iran.

Comme 25 de ses collègues, Fariba Pajooh paie sa liberté d'esprit, son amour de la vérité, son combat pour une patrie moderne et démocratique. Après un mois en isolement total, elle a partagé la cellule d'une autre journaliste féminine, Hengameh Shahidi, qui vient d’être libérée. Fariba ne sait pas de quoi elle est accusée, elle ne peut pas avoir de contacts avec ses avocats. Seuls de brefs instants de communication sont autorisés sporadiquement avec sa famille à qui elle confie, dans un sourire triste, qu'on la presse d'avouer (avouer quoi? Pressée comment?)

Nous réclamons pour elle, pour Bahman Ahmadi Amouyee, pour Ahmad Zaidabadi et pour la vingtaine d'autres dont les noms sont moins connus, la liberté immédiate et totale.

Par la solidarité et pour protéger le métier, nous, certains journalistes belges, francophones et néerlandophones, avons crée un comité de soutien aux journalistes Iraniens qui sont en prison pour une seule raison, parce qu'ils sont journalistes et pratiquent leur boulot indépendamment.

Nous témoignons  notre solidarité avec ces confrères et consœurs brimés, nous exigeons de nos dirigeants qu'ils fassent pression sur le gouvernement iranien pour qu'il les rende à leurs familles et à leur profession, qui est aussi la nôtre.

All dear Fariba's friends
 
As you may know, Hengameh Shahidi is another journalist who has passed  last 4 months in Evin prison. She was cell mate with Fariba for around 35 days. They both have begun  hunger strike about four days ago, and for this reason they seperated them. Now, Hengameh is in public section and we dont know Fariba is alone  or not?!
Anyhow, last night Hengameh called me and asked deeply  from her heart : YOU ARE ALSO MY MOTHER, PLEASE SHARE ME IN ANY ACTIVITIES THAT YOU DO FOR FARIBA!

Sincerely Yours
 
Farideh(Fariba's Mother)

P.S. Among 25 journalists are still in jail, Fariba & Hengameh are only 2 women...
  

My dearest Fariba, I do not know what you are doing at this moment. Perhaps you are talking to your cell mate Hengameh Shahidi, or maybe you are trying to analyze a book. I don’t know if you are sleeping or two months into your arrest you are still in the middle of different administrative procedures to complete your file!
Anyhow, I am not intending to write to you about our sorrows. I do not want to tell you about the pain of separation or the pain we feel when we see your pale face. I do not want to talk about the pain and agony you have been subjected to during this time; a pain that you always try to hide from us. This time I want to tell you about our Mondays, in other words, I would like to call this letter the Monday Chronicles.
The first month of your detention, during which you were held in solitary confinement with no prison visits, finally came to an end. Since then, every Monday either Amir or I, go the visitation hall of Evin. We bring with us all the ID documents of the family and arrive there between 8.30 and 9 am. After getting a blue card from the soldier who stands at the entrance, we write our names and yours on the card and rush to the small window where we get a number. Often there are a few people ahead of us, which means the families whose loved ones are held in Ward 209 have taken their numbers before us. We start speaking to these newly found and dear friends, with whom we share our pain. We exchange information and news while we wait for the small window to open. It might open at nine or maybe even after 10am. Perhaps the blame is on us for having arrived earlier than necessary. We always do, as we all wait the entire week for those brief minutes when we can see our loved ones.
They take our ID documents and ask us the name of the prisoner we have come to visit, although sometimes they find the name on the blue card. Those moments are always the longest because we don’t know what they will say next. Even if we were allowed to have a visit the previous week, it does not mean that we will get one that day. Finally the waiting ends and we can visit. If there is a sign at the back of the blue card, it means the visit will be through the glass divider; otherwise you are among the luckiest and can have a face to face visit.
For some, like Bahman Ahmadi Amoui , visits are always through the glass divider. But the hardest of all is that every week two or three families are told that there are no visits for their prisoners.
At that moment all the ears and eyes turn toward that little window to see who did not get a visit. Who was the unlucky one this week? Was it Saeed Laylaz, Masoud Bastani, Mohammad Ghouchani, Allahyari, Naimipour or….?
At 1 or 1.30 pm all the families who got a visit that day leave the hall. Their eyes are tired and distressed. There is one question in everyone’s mind: Do they have to come back next Monday or will their Monday Chronicles end?
I have changed my return ticket from Mashad to be back on Sunday morning. I will be there this Monday like all other Mondays. It will be the start of your third month of detention and I am impatiently waiting to see you, my dearest Fariba.
We have put all our hopes in the God almighty.
With all my love and from the Shrine of the 8th Imam, I say Salam to you.

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

The detention order for journalist, Fariba Pajooh, has been renewed. Earlier this week her prison visits were also canceled.

HRA - The Prisoners’ Rights Unit of HRA reports that, last Monday, prison officials, who were acting under orders, did not let Faiba’s family visit her in prison. The family could only briefly talk to her for minutes over the phone.

In addition, her lawyer, Mina Jaffari, has been notified by the investigator from the 2nd District of the Revolutionary Court that her client’s detention order has been renewed. The news has led to worries that Fariba Pajooh may be transferred back to solitary confinement.

Mina Jaffari, the defense lawyer, told a HRANA reporter that the Tehran prosecutor has ordered all her client’s visits to be canceled. The restriction is all encompassing; neither Jaffari herself nor Fariba’s family are allowed visits.

The lawyer added, “Fariba is still under pressure, and her emotional state is worrisome. Unfortunately, I have never been able to see her and could only get her news through her family.”

Mina Jaffari also talked about the latest development in the case of Isa Saharkhiz, her other client, and said, “Mr. Saharkhiz is still in jail and his detention order has also been renewed, but I have not been given any more information on the file.”

Fariba Pajooh was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents on August 22nd, 2009, the first day of Ramadan, at her parents’ house. She spent the first month of her detention in solitary confinement. Fariba has been verbally abused by prison guards and is under intense psychological pressure to confess.  After one month of solitary confinement, she was moved to a cell that she shared with another detained journalist, Hengameh Shahidi.

Fariba  called her mother yesterday(Wed.) afternoon.She was better, but she is worry about her future. Her lawyer, Dr. Nemaat Ahmadi, couldn't meet her till now and nothing is clear about charges against her.
We are going to have a meeting in front of Evin Prison with other prisoners' families this (Thr.)evening.
 
Fariba's Family

All Dear  friends of Fariba
 
Fariba is in jail for around 40 days, she  was in solitary  confinement for one month, in a cell ,and she could only read the holy Quran during that one month.....Now,since last Sunday  she is in a room with Ms.Hengameh Shaheedi.They have many "facilities"such as : refrigerator,TV..They can read some other books and buy some things...Anyway,till now,there is no clear reasons why she is in jail ,her lawyer Mr.Nemaat Ahmadi couldn't meet her,It seems she has to stay there at least for another 20 days ...
We ,as her family, have met her 2 times,last Monday and today (Monday is a common day for meeting with political prisoners in Evin Prison/section 209)....she is so sad, however she tries to pretend to be happy!! she expects that her friends write about her and her rights as a human/journalist.

Fariba is worried about her future. Fariba has had depression last year and she was under medication for 3-4 months,.Now ,in jail she takes 3-4  sedative  tablets  per day ....Her face is colorless/white....Her smiling face ,now cannot smile even for a moment...
 
Fariba's Family