9) Kian Tajbakhsh arrested July 9, 2009
His was the first case of American citizen detained in Iran after the elections on June 12. Tajbakhsh was in fact a double passport (Iranian and American).
and scholar of sociology and urban planning. He performed his studies in London (Imperial College and University College) and completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University (New York). It has long been a member of Social Science Research Council (SSRC) , the largest American organization of scholars in social sciences, in which dealt especially programs relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
has taught in American universities and Iranians. In particular it has been seven years a professor of government and urban policy at New School in New York , where it still has the post of senior fellow resarch. He has published two books well known in his field: The Promise of the City: Space, Identity and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought (University of California Press, 2001) and Social Capital: Trust, Democracy and Development (in done).
is an internationally recognized expert in social policy, urban planning, public health, local government. He was adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Interior, as well as international bodies like the World Bank el ' Open Society Institute (founded by George Soros). It also dealt with the reconstruction projects that followed the devastating 2003 earthquake in Bam. in 2007 had already been arrested on charges of fomenting the protests against the Islamic regime and had been in Evin prison for more than four months. After that experience he had chosen to remain in Iran, where her family lives. In 2007 his first daughter was born and since then Tajbakhsh was deliberately kept away from politics, devoting himself to his studies and write books, though its scientific activities have continued to be kept under strict surveillance by the authorities.
He was arrested at 9 pm on July 9. Two men who identified themselves as Iranian intelligence agents showed up at his house and began to interrogate him and his wife. After three hours, they have taken and taken to unknown place without providing any legal justification for the measure. They also took away two computers and other personal items of Tajbakhsh. It was later learned that he would be accused of having collaborated with Hossein Raman, British Embassy employee, in turn, arrested, at which the system assigns a key role in organizing the post-election protests. His colleagues in the New School have tried to deliver a petition calling for his release (with 800 signatures) to the delegates of the Iranian mission to the UN, which, however, refused to receive it. It also led to a site, FreeKian2009 gathering signatures for another petition and tell the story of Kian Tajbakhsh. Other appeals have so far gone unheeded. A picture of Kian Tajbakhsh (with a heartfelt exhortation to his release), was released July 31 on the Guardian .
Update 1 August 2009 have proved real and the fears that family and friends of Kian Tajbakhsh had expressed to the correspondent of ' Associated Press last July 17: that Tajbakhsh was detained and was under pressure to extract confessions to be used during a show trial to feed the public television of Iran. Kian Tajbakhsh is in fact today appeared in public ( pictured above), for the first time since his arrest, during the press conference following the first hearing of the "show trial" (Tajbakhsh's photos were published online by 'semi-official agency Farsnews ). The process is organized by Tehran's Revolutionary Court against the first group of those who were arrested after the elections on June 12. The indictment, the defendants, is to have organized the protest after the elections with the help and support of Western countries hostile to the Islamic Republic of Iran: essentially that he had conspired against the country. These are crimes for which in Iran may be imposed the death penalty. It is clear that life, the curriculum and the dual international passport Kian Tajbakhsh make it the ideal candidate that impute the role of "spy in the service of foreign powers." A statement
spread from family and friends Tajbakhsh vehemently rejected these accusations, reiterating that he has always maintained a position of political neutrality by engaging with his work as a scholar, in an effort to overcome cultural barriers. In the press release is also reiterated that Tajbakhsh, during these weeks, was detained in an unknown place, without the chance to meet either his lawyer or family.
Update August 2, 2009
agency Associated Press (taken from the New York Times ) cites the testimony of Pamela Kilpadi, a researcher who was working on a book with Kian Tajbakhsh. "I know for sure - said Kilpadi - that Kian has not played any role in the post-election incidents that occurred in Iran. He even said he would not go to vote in elections. As an independent scholar Kian has always pursued its political neutrality. "
The Kilpadi, referring to" confessions "and" admission of guilt "by Tajbakhsh and other defendants during the trial, added:" They are statements extracted by force and the threat to someone who is held in a secret place, without the ability to have contact with lawyers, family, friends, in violation of human rights treaties to which Iran is expected to petitioner. "
Update August 27, 2009 If
hoped to devote himself to his books, studies and family, Kian Tajbakhsh'll be living these months of detention hearings and the "show trial" underway in Tehran as the worst of nightmares. The theorem has awarded it accusing him a central role in the design of what the authorities in Tehran call the "velvet revolution". It was planned by the Western powers (the United States and Britain in particular) to subvert the established order of the Islamic Republic. The fourth hearing of the "show trial", held August 25 ( left photo), has absolute clarity on what the regime wants to put the reconstruction of the events of recent months. And, in this reconstruction, Tajbakhsh is the figure of the piece without which the castle would fall, he who would act as link between hostile foreign forces and the opposition forces inside Iran.
the hearing of 25, on the one hand, the reformist politician and journalist Saeed Hajjarian (arrested despite being left disabled after an attack suffered in 2000) was forced to sottscrivere a statement indicating its Tajbakhsh as the point of reference of the Soros Foundation in Iran, accused of plotting against the regime. Secondly the same Tajbakhsh (which, remember, it was not even allowed to consult and appoint a lawyer of his choice) was forced a leggere in aula la sua "confessione" (ne dà notizia il sito filogovernativo PressTv ) in cui chiama in causa l'ex presidente Mohammad Khatami e l'ex rappresentante dell'Iran alle Nazioni Unite Mohammad-Javad Zarif . Nel 2006 essi avrebbero incontrato di persona George Soros. Del resto sin dal 1997, cioè da quando era diventato presidente, Khatami sarebbe stato in contatto con la Fondazione Soros (e complice del suo piano sovversivo) e avrebbe incontrato più volte Tajbakhsh fino a tutto il 2005.
Inutile segnalare un'anomalia in questa ricostruzione: perché il presidente Khatami, già dal 1997, avrebbe dovuto tramare contro il regime di cui lui stesso, in quanto presidente, was one of the leaders?
"With the support of some officials of the reformist front - added Tajbakhsh in his" confession "- political parties and nongovernmental organizations of American origin found a way to begin their activities in Iran."
In other words, according to the accusation made by the theorem of the system and loaded on the shoulders of Kian Tajbakhsh, the U.S. government and the CIA were hiding behind neutral scientific activities (seminars, conferences and research) funded by prestigious international academic institutions (the Woodrow Wilson International Center and Carnegie Foundation, among others) their plans to destabilize la Repubblica Islamica. Il vero e segreto scopo di queste attività di ricerca sarebbe stato "perturbare l'ordine pubblico e seminare il caos e la paura nella società" (sono sempre parole della "confessione" estorta a Tajbakhsh) con l'obiettivo ultimo di rovesciare il sistema.
E', se non altro, un'ennesima prova di quale considerazione abbiano le autorità della Repubblica Islamica per i liberi studi, per la libera ricerca, per la cultura in genere: servono se sono organici al regime. Le parole recentemente rivolte a studiosi e poeti iraniani dal leader supremo Khamenei non lasciano dubbi: "Artisti e intellettuali sono parte del grande movimento della Rivoluzione e sono obbligati ad esprimere la loro comprensione della Truth "(source agency ILNA ).
Update August 30, 2009 Immediately after the hearing on August 25, the family Kian Tabakhsh has again strongly reaffirmed the absolute strangeness of their loved one to the accusations that are moved: "Kian is not a member of any Iranian reformist movement and had no involvement in any event or pre-or post-election protest."
The August 27 spokesman for the Department of Ian Kelly was again asked for his release (as did the Aug. 15 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton): "We believe that accusations that they are driven not basis. And, of course, we have repeatedly called for his release. "
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