Hello all
My name is Shaghayegh, (Poppy)
I have so many words to pour out from my heart – in Love
In love of Freedom..
I am talking to you: Oh .. Iranian children
Can you hear my bewailed voice?
Untold stories of gallantry trying to burst out..
Children , Do you know about our place .. Here I mean? In Ashraf?
This is Ashraf City, the land of the daring heroes
If the land seems red and covered with red flower petals..
They are all hearts, all poppies that once were and now brick our way to freedom..
Even in celebrations of Light over the Dark .. even at time of war, they are there
Even if our reflections are filled with stones and rays of darkness by the bad force
All there is .. All we have; is for your tomorrows’
All we have ..is our heart and in that, is your special place
In this city .. every memory is a bridge to gallantry
Here, each road, each ally reminds one of a poppy
My adorable, kind big brothers
The best sisters on Earth..
One of them, was my sister Faezeh
She was a miracle for my solitude
She spoke of the “Freedom” we could have tomorrow
When soaked by sorrow, she would speak to me of glee and joy
Under this solemn, grey worldly sky,
She.. She was a shining sun – over all goodness that ever was
In my missing moments and cold nights,
She filled my dad’s absence *
I , I was always in love with her
I was always her little sis Shaghayegh
She would say: ‘ Shaghayegh , dads gone to God.
Look he is waving at us from up there!’
She would tell me …:
‘If I get killed .. when I am gone , when I am nearing the glorious sun
Don’t ever say ‘What shall I do now!’
Cuz I am staring at you from above.
I will come and visit you. The love I have for u.. will never leave ‘
When she was leaving us.. When her eyes were closing..
Her cheeks filled with poppy petals
Yes .. She left us .. she was gone
But she reached the stars and the sun
She.. She was like a bird that flew up ..high up ..
Children let me tell you…
She wanted FREEDOM
She kept saying .. there is a PRICE for FREEDOM,
She wanted our future to change color and be BLUE
She wanted the sun to win over the clouds and shine on us
I can still hear her voice
Her flag.. the waving flag? I am carrying her Flag
Now and ever more,
I want to take her Flag
Its message for genuine life
And hoist it in Iran .. just like a waving flag
Waving over Iran when the breeze of change comes .. it will shout one name :
I will make sure its hoisted; Under the name of IRAN
Shaghayegh is 14 and lives in Camp Ashraf. her sister was among those 36 who were shot in cold blood on 8 April 2011.
Her father was mudered by the mullahs in prison, some say under toture. His body was never given to his relatives but was burried clandestinly and later told to relatives.
Camp Ashraf is home to 3400 freedom fighters and dissidents, who oppose the tyrants in Iran. The Camp was attacked many time, the last being on 8 April 2011, by Al-Maliki forces at the behest of the Iranian regime. The intention was to eradicate Tehan’s opposition. The people in the camp stood firm in fending off the blood lead attack with empty hands. The Iraqis used live ammunition and humvees to crash residents or killed them. Marksmen were spotted shooting at the residents one by one. This was reported to a Spanish tribunal which has issued a decree , for comprehensive investigation into the crimes and generated a warrant for those involved in the massacre including top Military commanders in Iran as well as Al-Maliki.
Background to Shaghayegh's Father :
Amnesty International
Deaths in custody in Iran highlight prison authorities' disregard for life
20 March 2009
The death in custody of an internet blogger in Iran on Wednesday raised renewed fears that prisoners in the country are being denied medical treatment, possibly as an extra punishment.
Omid Reza Mirsayafi's death follows that of another political prisoner, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, who died in suspicious circumstances on 6 March after five years in prison.
"The full circumstances of both prisoners' deaths have yet to become clear, but it appears that both may have resulted from a failure or refusal on the part of the prison authorities to allow them urgently needed medical treatment," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.
"The Iranian authorities have an obligation to ensure that both deaths are urgently and impartially investigated, and to ensure that any officials responsible for denying or withholding medical treatment or for contributing to these prisoners' deaths in other ways are brought to justice."
Omid Reza Mirsayafi died at Tehran's Evin Prison less than six weeks after starting a 30-month sentence. He was convicted of "insulting the Supreme Leader" and "propaganda against the system" in relation to articles he had written on his blog. He denied the charges.
He is reported to have been suffering from depression, for which he received some medication from the prison clinic and to have become seriously ill after taking an overdose.
Another prisoner, who is a medical doctor, Dr Hesam Firouzi, provided immediate assistance and recommended his hospitalization. Despite this prison staff were reported to have failed to recognize the seriousness of his condition and did not transfer him to hospital.
Two weeks earlier, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran died at a hospital in Karaj shortly after he was taken there from Raja’i Shahr (or Gohardasht) Prison. He was serving an eight-year sentence imposed in 2004 for establishing the United National Front political party.
He died after he was reported to have become seriously ill on 4 March. His wife has said that, when she visited him in hospital on 5 March, he appeared to be in a coma and that he was shackled to the hospital bed. After his death, a hospital doctor told her that he had suffered a brain haemorrhage and a lung infection and that he should have been hospitalized sooner.
Other political prisoners have died in custody in suspicious circumstances in recent years. Abdolreza Rajabi, a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), died unexpectedly in Reja'i Shahr Prison on 30 October 2008.
In 2006, Akbar Mohammadi, a student, died in Evin Prison, and Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi, a PMOI member under sentence of death, died in Reja’i Shahr Prison after hunger strikes in which they were apparently denied adequate medical attention.
"These latest deaths underline the urgent need for the Iranian authorities to improve prison conditions and to take immediate measures to ensure that all prisoners in their custody are treated humanely," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.
"It is shameful that the health of prisoners is disregarded to such an extent that they are denied potentially life-saving treatment and allowed to die while in the care of the state. We fear that refusal of timely medical care is being used as another tactic in the arsenal of repression of dissent in Iran."
Omid Reza Mirsayafi's death follows that of another political prisoner, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, who died in suspicious circumstances on 6 March after five years in prison.
"The full circumstances of both prisoners' deaths have yet to become clear, but it appears that both may have resulted from a failure or refusal on the part of the prison authorities to allow them urgently needed medical treatment," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.
"The Iranian authorities have an obligation to ensure that both deaths are urgently and impartially investigated, and to ensure that any officials responsible for denying or withholding medical treatment or for contributing to these prisoners' deaths in other ways are brought to justice."
Omid Reza Mirsayafi died at Tehran's Evin Prison less than six weeks after starting a 30-month sentence. He was convicted of "insulting the Supreme Leader" and "propaganda against the system" in relation to articles he had written on his blog. He denied the charges.
He is reported to have been suffering from depression, for which he received some medication from the prison clinic and to have become seriously ill after taking an overdose.
Another prisoner, who is a medical doctor, Dr Hesam Firouzi, provided immediate assistance and recommended his hospitalization. Despite this prison staff were reported to have failed to recognize the seriousness of his condition and did not transfer him to hospital.
Two weeks earlier, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran died at a hospital in Karaj shortly after he was taken there from Raja’i Shahr (or Gohardasht) Prison. He was serving an eight-year sentence imposed in 2004 for establishing the United National Front political party.
He died after he was reported to have become seriously ill on 4 March. His wife has said that, when she visited him in hospital on 5 March, he appeared to be in a coma and that he was shackled to the hospital bed. After his death, a hospital doctor told her that he had suffered a brain haemorrhage and a lung infection and that he should have been hospitalized sooner.
Other political prisoners have died in custody in suspicious circumstances in recent years. Abdolreza Rajabi, a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), died unexpectedly in Reja'i Shahr Prison on 30 October 2008.
In 2006, Akbar Mohammadi, a student, died in Evin Prison, and Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi, a PMOI member under sentence of death, died in Reja’i Shahr Prison after hunger strikes in which they were apparently denied adequate medical attention.
"These latest deaths underline the urgent need for the Iranian authorities to improve prison conditions and to take immediate measures to ensure that all prisoners in their custody are treated humanely," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.
"It is shameful that the health of prisoners is disregarded to such an extent that they are denied potentially life-saving treatment and allowed to die while in the care of the state. We fear that refusal of timely medical care is being used as another tactic in the arsenal of repression of dissent in Iran."
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