1,584 Public Libraries Active Throughout Iran

Anonymous Patron writes “1,584 public libraries are active throughout Iran.

Iran Mania has the brief story, which details how the libraries are supported and how library boards are appointed.”

June 14, 2005 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Fang-Face says:
    June 15, 2005 at 1:31 am

    They have libraries; do they have human rights?
    2005, June 12: A demand for respect as human beings

    By Iranian women. Massive crowds of women staged an unauthorized demonstration in Tehran to protest sex discrimination under Iran’s Islamic leadership; this just days before the 17 June presidential election. This protest is the first public display of dissent by women since the 1979 revolution when the religious government enforced obligatory veiling. The protesters chanted, “We are women, we are the children of this land, but we have no rights.” More than two hundred fifty women
    marched outside Tehran University, and some two hundred others demonstrated two blocks away; the riot police had apparently prevented both groups from joining the main protest. In May 2005, The hard-line Guardian Council, dominated by six unelected clerics and six judges, rejected eighty-nine prospective candidates who had registered to run for president because they were women.

    Also, see the Zahra Kazemi Murder Timeline; and the Salman Rushdie Death Threat timeline.

    So Iran has libraries. Do they have freedom of speech and a free flow of information from one mind to another? Or is it all state sanctioned and policed materials? Cuba has libraries too, doesn’t it?

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  2. Fang-Face says:
    June 15, 2005 at 1:46 am

    Re:They have libraries; do they have human rights?
    Damn all Hell. Here’s the corrected links to those pages:

    Zahra Kazemi Murder Timeline.

    The Salman Rushdie Death Threat timeline

    . . . and also a series of quotations about the death edict.

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