Holding IRI Officials to Ransom

After witnessing the purchased and corrupt governments support the IRI, I was further shocked and disgusted to have found that the police in Germany demonstrated a total disregard for the right to freedom of expression, and a blatant violation of due process.

A group of Iranians were peacefully demonstrating outside the IRI embassy in Berlin, December 10, 2010. They had banners that were not even remotely offensive, merely reading "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran". The police had checked and approved all banners and placards at the start of the demonstration. However, after an IRI embassy employee whispered in the ear of one of the police officers, the police officers attacked the banner and forcefully tore it down, before attacking the peaceful demonstrators, who had a valid legal permit authorising their usual demonstration outside the IRI embassy.

You may view the informative twelve minute clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFrUCCPlws

The fascist government of the IRI censors and butchers its own people, yet they have successfully fooled many into believing that they can care for the plight of other people - the Palestinians. How could such modern police officers who live in a relatively free and liberal State violate Article 19 of two pivotal international human rights instruments, and abuse their own rules of due process in appeasing a fascist regime that ventures to extreme lengths to asphyxiate dissidence and free speech? The German police officers' deplorable compliance with the IRI embassy serves to demonstrate their allegiance to the anti-Christ of freedom and human rights, and not with the due process of law enforcement and international law.

Let us consult Article 5 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany:

"1. Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.

2. These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honor"

Note, Article 5(2) limits widely freedom of expression in protecting 'personal honour'. Still, this may be irrelevant in the case of the above protestors, as there was no material attack on the personal honour of any one individual, but rather on a State's government - one that has long bereft itself of honour. Would the officers have acted differently had the target State of the demonstration been Switzerland, for example?

These officers should be subject to the most austere of police disciplinary procedures, if such footage is demonstrative of the whole truth of what took place on Human Rights Day in Berlin. A forward advancing State, such as Germany, should not endeavour to appease the transgressive IRI government. As a token of demonstrating unequivocal commitment to the protection of human rights, all States should implement an expulsion policy. This policy would serve to expel one or two IRI diplomats from their State by way of revoking their diplomatic status/visa in their country, until the IRI government ceases its human rights abuses and releases all political prisoners in Iran. Of course, many will argue that the IRI will never stop their human rights violations, unless the entire regime is removed. My response to that is 'very well, then we shall see to the closure of all IRI embassies'.

***** UPDATE (23 DECEMBER 2010) *****

The following link is to a petition calling for the expulsion of each IRI diplomat from their embassies in other countries for as long as human rights violations take place in the IRI. We wish to fight their savage impunity. Please support this cause by signing the petition in the below link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/NFAFI3/petition.html