{"id":40,"date":"2014-07-25T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T11:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:36:58","slug":"only-the-birds-fly-free-mahnaz-mohammadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/only-the-birds-fly-free-mahnaz-mohammadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Only The Birds Fly Free \u2013 Mahnaz Mohammadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the hunger strikes in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s, the street the British Embassy was on was renamed after him (Bobby Sands). But had he lived, he would be ashamed of the way Iran treats its womenfolk, one of whom \u2013 who is one of many \u2013 the film-maker Mahnaz Mohammadi is still in jail, and another name you will remember was shot at a demonstration being a passer by, Neda Soltani, at whose grave Mahnaz was arrested\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Only the birds fly free
\nIn the bright Tehran sky
\nOne of many women, most nameless
\nCow in their cells and cry.
\nThey cannot speak, but they do, they pay for it,
\nWhat would Bobby Sands say if them he did meet,
\nWould he demand the Ayatollahs
\nRemove his name from their street?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the hunger strikes in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s, the street the British Embassy was on was renamed after him (Bobby Sands). But had he lived, he would be ashamed of the way Iran treats its womenfolk, one of whom \u2013 who is one of many \u2013 the film-maker …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,101,102],"tags":[106,2349,103,105,104],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-iran","category-islam","tag-human-rights","tag-iran","tag-mahnaz-mohammadi","tag-political-prisoners","tag-women-in-jail-in-iran","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":790,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/she-is-remembered-still-though-most-forget-her-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":40,"position":0},"title":"She Is Remembered Still, Though Most Forget Her Name – \u0646\u062f\u0627 \u0622\u0642\u0627 \u0633","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aXSkrD-cZUA She was shot on a streetcorner, gaining fame for all the wrong reasons. 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