On the Word to Mr. Ahmadinejad in Brazil, "Human rights are on the agenda": In Iran ban off
From World Citizen Sam, this item off his Facebook:
The [Brazilian] Senate's Human Rights and Minorities Comission asks the Foreign Affairs Minister to include human rights issues in the agenda with Mr. Ahmadinejad, since Brazil's Constitution predicts that all international relationships will be based upon certain principles, one of which: "the prevalence of human rights". Lets hope the Mother Charter of the Brazilian Republic is respected and remembered these days!
"Jewel" Uploaded on August 7, 2009 by Adib Roy on flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic
If Iran wants to increase awareness of the Baha'i Faith in the world, all they have to do is ban, even just for a day, a newspaper for publishing a picture of the Lotus Temple in India. Presto! 293 newspaper articles appear in every corner of the globe. -gw
UPDATE 1-Ban on Iran paper over Baha'i photo lifted-report
Reuters - - 2 hours ago
... is Iran's highest-circulation newspaper, was banned for a day after it carried a front-page advertisement for tourist travel to India showing a Baha'i ...
Report: Iran lifts ban on popular newspaper The Associated Press
Iran closes well-known newspaper Trend News Agency
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