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venerdì, dicembre 19, 2003
Sembrava Khamenei. Sul discorso di Shirin Ebadi alla cerimonia del Nobel avevamo espresso qualche giorno fa alcune perplessità. Non siamo soli. Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks, anche lei iraniana e anche lei impegnata nel campo dei diritti umani, scrive sul Los Angeles Times un articolo in cui critica duramente l’impostazione che la Ebadi ha voluto dare al suo intervento e parla senza mezzi termini di «occasione persa».
Weighted with all this expectation, it is perhaps not surprising that Ebadi's Nobel lecture was an anticlimax, but it was also another missed opportunity for those who long for the shadow of repression to be lifted from Iran. The lecture read as if it could have been delivered by an Iranian government official. While paying lip service to the values of human rights, she cited as examples of violations the detainees held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay and the plight of the Palestinians. Listeners had no way of knowing that Ebadi was speaking as a representative of a human rights movement in a nation where tens of thousands were executed after grossly unfair political trials two decades ago, where arbitrary detention is commonplace and religious persecution is institutionalized. Where were the references to the student demonstrators who disappeared in July 1999 and this summer? Why was there no reference to the imprisoned 70-year-old husband of her lifelong colleague, Mehrangiz Kar? Why no reference to Iranian Jews jailed for their religious beliefs or to the case of two Bahais sentenced in 1989, initially to death, and imprisoned since for practicing their faith? Instead of a critique or an explanation of Iran's human rights calamities, the lecture was a recitation of Iranian and Muslim human rights achievements, with some politically correct America- and Israel-bashing presumably thrown in for the benefit of the European audience. |
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