Protest of Khatami's Harvard Speech (large)

The Iran Freedom Concert coalition at Harvard organized a rally in solidarity with fellow students in Iran on Sunday, September 10, 2006.

Protestors gathered outside Harvard's Kennedy School, where former Iranian President Khatami was speaking, to highlight the brutal student crackdowns carried out under Khatami's presidency, and to demand the release of Ahmed Batebi, a prominent student dissident jailed by Khatami over six years ago.

Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami is promoting a "Dialogue of Civilizations" as part of a controversial speaking tour in the United
States. Critics, however, argue that President Khatami's moderate posturing merely masks the extremist views of his government and obscures the gross human rights violations undertaken by his very own administration.

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