We would like to invite all of our readers, including our student ambassadors, to participate in a conference call with an Iranian activist who was arrested in Iran in 2004 and imprisoned and tortured in 2006.  Mojtaba Saminejad (AKA: Madyar) is currently the editor of Ferowsi magazine and the president of Shahr-e Khorshid publications.  He also recently joined our Blogger Board.  

Mojtaba Saminejad and Solmaz Sharif, CyberDissidents.org’s Iran Program Manager, will be discussing the current political situation in Iran and the impact of the Internet in social movements.

The call will take place on Monday, July 02, 2012 at 11 am. If you are interested in joining the discussion, please let us know as soon as possible as the number of spots is limited. This is the tenth conversation in our conference call series in recent months. These calls are aimed at amplifying the voices of pro-democracy online activists in the Middle East.  

If you would like to RSVP for a spot on the conference call, please e-mail clarke@advancinghumanrights.org. We will get in touch with you about the details of the call ASAP. If you won’t be able to join, but you have a question to ask, please send us your questions and we will provide them to Mojtaba Saminejad.