New Year’s resolution

It’s Christmas time. For few years now, or maybe for many years, I really don’t get excited about it. Each year has a different reason though. I am not saying that I don’t like it, but I am not looking forward to it. I love the decorations, I love the shopping, and I love the [...]

Shoe mania

Honestly I felt good when I saw the shoes going at M. Bush. I wished he had been hit by them, maybe next time. Logically I think it was wrong. Imagine, if everyone threw a shoe at each other in a news conference, how funny that would be.
But what fascinates me more in this story, [...]

Still nothing

2) Amnesty International: (15/12/08)

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in English, Persian or your own language:
- calling on the authorities to immediately release Hossein Derakhshan or to charge him with an internationally recognizable criminal offence and to promptly try him in proceedings meeting fair trial standards;
- urging the authorities to [...]

The tribunal

We are in a tribunal which looks more like a huge amphitheater. Everyone is staring to the first row where all the criminals are seated. I don’t know anyone around me, but I feel that we all share the same anguish. It is cold. Although I can not hear very well but I try to [...]

I wish him well

I am back from my pilates class. I ate a nice steak and pasta and I feel wonderful. Then suddenly I remember something dark in my thoughts, something that makes me sad and worried. I have a friend who is in jail as a political prisoner. I don’t even want to know how it is [...]