kind of political alert
Jun. 18th, 2009 09:33 amWhen I first started this journal, I made a firm decision to remain un-political in statements as far as I could. I've broken that decision once, to comment on Obama's election, and I'm going to break it again today. I would apologize, but I think that this is important.
Most of you have probably already heard about the Iranian election protests going on, so I'm going to keep this short and simple, just a very basic breakdown of events.
The Iranian presidential election was last Friday. Ahmadinejad, the incumbent, was challenged by Mousavi, a candidate on a reform platform. Iran's ballots are handwritten and handcounted, a process that takes a long time, but all of the millions of ballots were counted within a one-day frame, with Ahmadinejad winning by a large lead. Suspicion of fraud ran rampant around the world. Iranians took to the streets Monday in peaceful protest, and things have only gone downhill from there. The official Iranian death count was 7 not long ago, but it is very likely it is higher than the government is giving out. The Iranian government has blocked Google, Youtube, Yahoo, and many other networking sites, but many Iranians have been able to get on Twitter and are giving updates of the situation as well as they can.
For more information:
PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER:
@StopAhmadi, @ProtesterHelp
دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election
- links and pictures from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
one_hoopy_frood
Most of you have probably already heard about the Iranian election protests going on, so I'm going to keep this short and simple, just a very basic breakdown of events.
The Iranian presidential election was last Friday. Ahmadinejad, the incumbent, was challenged by Mousavi, a candidate on a reform platform. Iran's ballots are handwritten and handcounted, a process that takes a long time, but all of the millions of ballots were counted within a one-day frame, with Ahmadinejad winning by a large lead. Suspicion of fraud ran rampant around the world. Iranians took to the streets Monday in peaceful protest, and things have only gone downhill from there. The official Iranian death count was 7 not long ago, but it is very likely it is higher than the government is giving out. The Iranian government has blocked Google, Youtube, Yahoo, and many other networking sites, but many Iranians have been able to get on Twitter and are giving updates of the situation as well as they can.
For more information:
PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER:
@StopAhmadi, @ProtesterHelp
دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election
- links and pictures from
one_hoopy_frood
