Sending Good Wishes

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From the Space Needle in Seattle to the Milad Tower in Tehran, may freedom and civil liberties be enjoyed by all in peace. If you are not familiar with the beautiful Milad Tower in the capital city of Iran, you might like to scroll through these great shots of its opening gala that Amir Sagedhi shared with our daily photoblogging community in August of 2008. Amir was arrested at work in Tehran on Monday by state security forces. We are thinking of Amir and his family and urging Amnesty International to intercede for his safety and immediate release. He is among 65 bloggers and journalists who have been arrested for photographing and reporting about opposition demonstrations. Today is the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution and a big celebration is underway. The government is seeking to prevent protests on this occasion and has severely restricted or disrupted all means of TV, press, radio, internet, and phone communications to prevent dissenting groups from organizing or being able to report about expected protests.

Sending Good Wishes

Photo & Text Copyright 2009 Seattle Daily Photo. All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing.

From the Space Needle in Seattle to the Milad Tower in Tehran, may freedom and civil liberties be enjoyed by all in peace. If you are not familiar with the beautiful Milad Tower in the capital city of Iran, you might like to scroll through these great shots of its opening gala that Amir Sagedhi shared with our daily photoblogging community in August of 2008. Amir was arrested at work in Tehran on Monday by state security forces. We are thinking of Amir and his family and urging Amnesty International to intercede for his safety and immediate release. He is among 65 bloggers and journalists who have been arrested for photographing and reporting about opposition demonstrations. Today is the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution and a big celebration is underway. The government is seeking to prevent protests on this occasion and has severely restricted or disrupted all means of TV, press, radio, internet, and phone communications to prevent dissenting groups from organizing or being able to report about expected protests.

Blog Day: Where is Our Blogger?!

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Today friends in the City Daily Photo Blog community are posting special photos from our cities around the globe to express our concern for our fellow CDPB blogger who has shared with us every day for years the beauty of the city and people of Iran's capital, Tehran. He disappeared on the streets of Tehran seven days ago and we are anxious to hear of his safety and whereabouts. Ours is a photoblogging, not a political community, but we must express our love and concern for someone just like each of the rest of us who shares one photo a day from our cities and enjoys friendship around the world. There is a tower in Tehran that a friend once told me Seattle's Space Needle reminded him of. So, from the Space Needle here in my city to the beautiful Milad tower in Tehran, which our blogging friend Amir began showing our community the construction of in 2006 and the lighting of in this photo in August of last year, I send my good wishes for his safe return and for the peace of the dear people of Iran in these present troubling times. Here is a green balloon for each day that has passed since we have learned of his disappearance. Similar balloons were let go all over Iran on Friday to express the Iranian people's wish for the right to peaceful demonstration and freedom of speech without fear of reprisal.
Click here to view thumbnails for all the CDPB special Blog Day: Where is Our Blogger? participants.

UPDATE: Amir has been released! our blogging friend reported at 12:06 PST today that , " I just got an email right now that Amir is released and is back home." What wonderful news!

UPDATE #2: Read this to find out how some detainees at Evin prison have been treated.