Interview with Parvana Persiani

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Interview with Parvana Persiani, OL! Azerbaijan youth movement Executive Board member, World Blogging Forum, Bucharest, Romania If anyone wants to help translate this into other languages please contact onewmphoto@yahoo.com

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Onnik: Parvana, thanks very much for agreeing to be interviewed by Global Voices Online
We’re here in the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, for the World Blogging Forum
The first ever
You’re about to be part of a panel discussion on freedom of expression
And in particular the case of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli
Do you think that this forum is a good place to raise such issues?
Parvana: It is really fascinating to be here among these people
Bloggers from all over the world
because they are people dealing with these issues
With blogging and its impact on the development of society
and today being here I have a chance to deliver
the message that bloggers of Azerbaijan
two video bloggers
they are under threat and have serious troubles
So it’s good to deliver that message today here
and this forum, this gathering of bloggers together
they might show once more solidarity among bloggers
among information brokers in society
Onnik: As someone who’s based in the Caucasus
and as someone looking at the use of new media
especially civil society, especially youth activism
what’s happening in Azerbaijan has been really impressive
The use of social networking sites, the use of new media
such as blogs, now Twitter, now online television
through AN TV
Why and when did all this happen?
Parvana: After the independent media agencies were shut down by government
and after independent radio stations
like Radio Liberty, BBC, [and] Voice of America were shut down
people had no chance to […] express their opinion freely.
They didn’t have space in newspapers to express their complaints,
to express their doubts,
so people began to go to Facebook, to Twitter, people began to tweet,
to SMS each other about upcoming events, social events in society,
and gradually it turned out that more and more people began to use social networks.
The result of it was that when Adnan and Emin were arrested
we could spread the word [with] the help of social networks, new media,
by blogs, Twitter and Facebook.
Onnik: You were saying the other day that this idea of networking was an idea of Emin Milli
And Adnan was involved in using YouTube and video
And it did break that stranglehold, that control of information
Of course, it also got them arrested
Do you not think that many people might be more afraid of using these tools
Or do you think that it has achieved the opposite?
Parvana: The thing is that the Internet is a space which you cannot control,
which you cannot control completely.
It might be [that] people [are] more scared to [take] to the street
and participate in some protest action
which leads them to go to the virtual world and to express their opinion there.
This means that this participation in social networks is increasing more and more.

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