Published on Rooz Online 30 October 2009
http://www.roozonline.com/english/opinion/opinion-article/article/2009/october/30//green-movement-hijab-and-ending-the-death-penalty.html
German translation: Julia, for further publication please give link to this post
From Asal Akhavan
In the months since the coup of 12 June, Iran engulfed by a mass movement, and even if this genuine people's movement has become known as the Green movement, it is in reality a kaleidoscope of different colors that represent all the political and social movements that are likely under normal, stable political conditions would fight rather than to stand side by side.
The goal of this movement is the leaders and speakers inside and outside Iran, according to the establishment of democratic rights of the people that free speech, freedom of speech, party, freedom of association and freedom of association, freedom of elections, press freedom and freedom of association.
It is clear that the democratic rights of minimum requirements for a civilian life of all political and social groups. For this reason, these minimum rights [only] a basis for effective political coalition, are the there may be temporary.
The youngest of the Iranian people's movements is different from the Revolution of 1979 and bears the bitter experiences of the revolution of three decades in itself. During the past 30 years, the word death penalty as one of the most common notions of political literature of the country, and the Islamic Republic has a new record for executions set for political reasons, not only in the history of Iran, but throughout the Middle East. "Must be executed" was one of the most common phrases of the revolution of 1979, and he completed a gradually increasing number of its supporters.
This is something that is the Green Movement and aware that she has experienced. However, as it creates a movement which was formed to create the future, keep distance from their bitter past and the damage it has suffered through it?
There is no doubt that this movement will be successful. Currently we are focusing on winning, but we must also be placed on possible future differences and suffering in mind. The fact that "must be executed" withdrawn from the slogans of the people, was a hopeful sign. But we need more guarantees for the future that lies ahead. For example
is still unclear how many individuals and groups of the movement are two important issues: the death penalty and the compulsory headscarf.
One can not use the fight against the government of Ahmadinejad as an excuse for these two - to ignore the important, fundamental human rights issues - and others. It seems that the intellectual and political groups considered these questions in a way by which you can read their practical commitment to human rights over.
The groups within the Green movement range from the left on new religious and liberal thinkers to national-religious groups and Marxists. You must answer the questions about their views on the abolition of the death penalty clear. You need to position themselves in the issue of forced veil, in particular the question of whether the government is entitled to require women as they have to dress.
These groups, which dominate the movement, have the greater duty to disclose their positions. In particular, Mr Moussavi and Karroubi and their speakers at home and abroad that have certain views on these must demonstrate binding, so that we, given the experiences and events of the past a little quieter and can be trusted.
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