GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Here's what Iran does while the world is watching the mideast...

Oh yes, a crackdown...

During the tumult in Gaza, Iran has cracked down on domestic dissidents and human rights activists, accusing some of not being strident enough in their denunciations of Israel. On Monday, authorities in Tehran arrested Jinos Sobhani, an activist associated with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi's recently shuttered human rights organization.

This was the last paragraph in a story in the LA Times...