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A necessary introduction
Vida Hadjebi Tabrizi, a flamboyant female Iranian socialist who was
named by the Amnesty International’s political prisoner of the year in
1978 died of a stroke in Paris on March 13, 2017, at age 81.
I learned about it from Farrokh, my lifetime friend who was like me
active in the New York-based Committee for Artistic and Intellectual
Freedom in Iran (CAIFI) in the 1970s. While CAIFI publicized the plight
of dozens of political prisoners in the Mohammad Reza Shah’s Jails, The
case of Vida Hadjebi Tabrizi was always a central case. A non-sectarian
defense committee that defended all prisoners of conscience, including
leftists of various ideologies, nationalists, and Islamic oppositionists
and welcomed the support of all regardless of their political
allegiances, CAIFI won over the support of some prominent liberal
Americans, including Kay Boyle, Daniel Ellsberg, and Ramsey Clark. In
the case of Vida Hadjebi, CAIFI won over Columbia University sociologist
Allan Silver who personally took a letter of protest signed by the
Canadian Association of Sociologists to Iranian Embassy in Washington
D.C regarding her detention. American Feminist Kate Millett, the
National Organization of Women representative and Anne Roberts, Amnesty
International representative, and other concerned U.S citizens publicly
denounced the imprisonment and torture of Vida Hadjebi and the treatment
of women prisoners of conscience in Iran.
full:
http://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2017/03/2585-vida-hadjebi-tabrizi-her-life-and.html
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