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February 16, 2010

Hundreds Protest in Geneva Calling for Human Rights in Iran
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Hundreds of Iranian opposition supporters from across Europe
demonstrated outside the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on Monday
as Iran’s human rights record was for the first time being examined by
the Human Rights Council. Bita Tavana heads the Swiss Committee for a
Free Iran.

Bita Tavana: “We just want a free nation, a democratic nation. We want a
secular country, and we think that this government is really a danger
for the whole world. And we just want that the whole world is aware of
that and that they stand beside of the freedom-loving nation of Iran.”

Inside the UN meeting, Iran’s envoy to Geneva insisted that Tehran fully
respects human rights and denounced concerns raised by the United
States, Britain and France as political gestures amid a wider nuclear
standoff.



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