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Protest at Press TV over Iran Repression

Peter Marshall | 03.08.2009 09:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Around 40 British and Iranian socialists and trade unionists protested outside the west London studios of Press TV, the English language TV station funded by the Iranian government on Sunday 2 August to highlight the plight of political prisoners in Iran. Photos Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

Part of a long line of images hanging opposite Press TV
Part of a long line of images hanging opposite Press TV

Neda! We will bring your killers to justice
Neda! We will bring your killers to justice

No to Islamic Regime...
No to Islamic Regime...

No to imperialism
No to imperialism

Part of the line of demonstrators
Part of the line of demonstrators

A raised fist
A raised fist

Long Live Freedom and Equality!
Long Live Freedom and Equality!

An NUJ member addresses the protest
An NUJ member addresses the protest


The protest at Westgate House overlooking the A40 Hanger Lane roundabout at was organised by Workers' Liberty, the Worker-communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist and The 8 March Women’s Organization (Iranian – Afghanistan.) (March 8 is International Women's Day, first celebrated by the Socialist Party of America a hundred years ago in 1909.)

In the June protests in Iran, thousands were arrested and possibly a hundred people killed. Around 750 are still in prison and many have simply disappeared. Show trials of some are now taking place. Amnesty reports that four have died in prison, and torture is routine, with some dying from its effects after release.

Last Thursday there were further protests to mark the 40 days since the killing of protesters including Neda Agha-Soltan, with protesters being beaten, arrested and one reported killed.

Press TV's reporting of the events has been one-sided propaganda in favour of the regime and failed to report the protests when - thanks largely to citizen journalism for Iran - they were headlining other media around the world. The demonstrators expressed their support for journalist Nick Ferrari who resigned his job as a presenter at Press TV and Jeremy Corbyn who withdrew from a program because of the station's biased coverage of the repression in Iran.

Among the demands made in speeches from Iranians and UK supporters in English and Farsi were the unconditional release of all political prisoners and an end to torture as well as the arrest and trial of those responsible for the attacks and killing of protesters. Protesters also called for freedom of speech, a free press and free trade unions and political organisation, as well as equal rights for women in all aspects of life and the abolition of compulsory veiling. There should be a separation of religion from the state and a society where all are free and equal.

Worker-communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist
 http://www.hekmatist.com/
The 8 March Women’s Organization (Iranian – Afghanistan)
 http://www.8mars.com/language/
Workers' Liberty
 http://www.workersliberty.org/

More pictures on My London Diary shortly
 http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2009/08/aug.htm

Peter Marshall
- e-mail: petermarshall@cix.co.uk
- Homepage: http://mylondondiary.co.uk

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Front Page on Demotix

03.08.2009 11:31

This story and a few more pictures are now on Demotix

 http://www.demotix.com/news/protest-press-tv

where it made the front page.

Peter

Peter Marshall
mail e-mail: petermarshall@cix.co.uk
- Homepage: http://mylondondiary.co.uk


Nick Ferrari

04.08.2009 09:36

'The demonstrators expressed their support for journalist Nick Ferrari'

When did this asylum-seeker hating piece of Tory scum come to be the mouth of free speech?

huh


Nick Ferrari

04.08.2009 09:59

"When did this asylum-seeker hating piece of Tory scum come to be the mouth of free speech?"

Hmm the AWL supporting someone who was a guest star at the Salute to Israel parade.
 http://www.salutetoisrael.org/artists

Whats more surprising is that Press TV gave the gobshite a job in the first place.

Hurriyah


As bad as the BBC?

04.08.2009 14:15

>Press TV's reporting of the events has been one-sided propaganda in favour of the regime and failed to report the protests when - thanks largely to citizen journalism for Iran - they were headlining other media around the world.

Three of the top Press TV stories just now seem to undercut your argument somewhat. For instance, they are the only agency quoting Mousavis reaction to the trials:

Mousavi says trial confessions 'forced by torture'
“Instead, I heard deep cries describing their painful fate over these past 50 days. Crushed human beings who would have confessed to any other thing they were told to.”
 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102306&sectionid=351020101

In Iran, 10 more post-vote protestors go on trial
Reformist figures have rejected the trial as a 'show', questioning the legitimacy of confessions and the methods by which they were extracted.
 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102289&sectionid=351020101

Iran police quell protests after endorsement
According to a Press TV correspondent, riot police were deployed in the capital on Monday after about 2,000 protestors opposed the formal endorsement of President Ahmadinejad following the June 12 election. The police clashed with supporters of defeated presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi between the two squares of Valiasr and Vanak and used tear gas to disperse the protestors, the Press TV correspondent added.
 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102391&sectionid=351020101

Danny


AWL

04.08.2009 14:21

Didn't even notice it was them but I suppose it had to be. The one group that can find a supposedly 'left' reason for taking sides with the ruling class - for the old reader its contortions are a bit like those of the RCP from the 80s.

huh


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