Nasim Soltan Beigi before Departing for Evin Prison: I have A
Dream…A Dream of Freedom…
Former Allameh Tabatabaei
University student activist, Nasim Soltan Beigi reported to Evin on Saturday to
start serving her three years prison term.
Upon appeals, her case was
sent to the Court of Appeals for review.
Prior to her last arrest,
Nasim was arrested in 2007 and later released on a 50 Million Toman bail.
Previous to that, she was arrested in 2006 during a women’s rights activists’
protest. This arrest resulted in a two year suspended prison sentence.
Soltan Baigi had worked as
an environmental and urban reporter for various newspapers and publications,
such as Sabz Press, Shargh and Arman.
Prior to her departure to
Evin she wrote on her Facebook page:
“And the earth spun until
finally it stopped at the point where Evin is….the bells rang again, the doors
were knocked and the summons arrived…..it’s time to depart, and the clamor of
moments are a relentless call of readiness….these are strange times my
darling…..times that even the insiders are being imprisoned, much less for us
outsiders….
These days even the sky is
in a turmoil….and disasters relentlessly occur one after another….and it was
during one of these storms that finally the bells also rang for me…..the bells
that I had been awaiting for some time now…I must go….I must go for the third
time….I don’t know how long those thick walls and doors will be my host and the
host of many others like me…but what was in our voices that we must be
enchained this way?
These days I continuously
murmur to myself…..I….I have a dream…a dream of Freedom….the dream of a
continuous dance of joy…I have a dream….a dream of awakening kind….a dream of
soothing this recurring pain…..the pain of the world that is being stripped of
Love…the pain of a tree that is drying from its roots….the pain of women that
are sentenced to torments….or the children that must labor…my dreams becoming
reality is the cure for my pain…..the cure for these pains is the world that I
long for….
This is my dream…..a world
without hatred…..a world without hatred is my dream….I….I have a dream, a dream
of many colors…a dream of a Green world without any war….I have a dream that is
not impossible…a world void of stop signs….a world that does not manufacture
bombs and missiles…does not drop bombs on sleeping children…a world where
prisons don’t exist…and people don’t die for the crime of asking
questions….people don’t die….”
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