Interview with Parvana Persiani

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Country: Romania

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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
You're about to speak on a panel
and you're going to raise the issue of Adnan and Emin
Why is it so important for you to raise this issue here at this forum?
Parvana: Because this forum is the World Blogging Forum
Which means that it brings together
bloggers from almost all over the world
It's very important that bloggers are aware of the issues, the events
around other bloggers of the world
It's very important to deliver the message
that bloggers are not only people writing funny posts
they are not people only doing funny things on the Internet
They are information brokers
and in some societies these information brokers
they might be a threat for some governments
they might face some threats and they might get into trouble
so it's really important that all bloggers are aware of that
and unite to work towards protection of their colleagues
Onnik: You're also a member of OL!
which is a youth movement in Azerbaijan
You're on the Executive Board, I think
Parvana: Yeah, I'm on the Board
Onnik: And it was co-founded by Adnan
Also Emin Milli's AN along with OL! were
were very unprecedented in the South Caucasus for using new media
and social media tools
In the end, however, it got them into trouble
How do you reflect on that irony, I guess?
Parvana: The thing is that these guys
both Emin and Adnan
and a lot of people around them
who are not arrested yet
These guys are using the most innovative tools
The most innovative methods
which is non-traditional
It's not about going to the streets
and screaming and shouting
about breaking windows
It's not about violence
It's about tolerance
it's about non-violence
and their actions are empowered by
innovative tools
by using social networks, by using the Internet
mostly
which is almost impossible to control
How can you control the Internet?
You cannot
That is what makes them dangerous for some authorities
that they can gather people around themselves
by using new, innovative methods
Onnik: You said they can't control the Internet
but obviously, as we've seen, you can try to control some of the bloggers
You arrest them
There's now another court hearing in two days time
Parvana: It's tomorrow
Onnik: It's tomorrow
The court case has been delayed and delayed and delayed
because witnesses have not turned up etc.
What do you think is going to happen tomorrow?
How do you see this going?
This trial at the moment?
Parvana: The thing is that the trial is being delayed every time
for several funny reasons
and they're charging them for hooliganism
but it's almost twice a trial for "hooligans"
... so-called "hooligans"
which shows that this trial is all about fiction
it's a kind of comedy
but at the same time it's very difficult to predict
the outcome of this trial
because the innocence of Emin and Adnan has been proven
by different materials of the investigation
the witnesses from the opposite side are always mixing testimonies
but witnesses from Emin and Adnan's side, they're giving clear testimony
telephone conversations, other materials
they are proving their innocence
but still it is very, very difficult to predict the outcome of this trial
because logic doesn't work here at all
When you think logically they are innocent
It's obvious
Everyone sees it
Even the Judge, smiling from time to time during the court
but the prediction? It's impossible to predict anything
but still we hope for the solidarity of the people protecting them
and we do hope for a positive outcome to this trial
Onnik: I'm sure the World Blogging Forum participants after your presentation
after the questions I'm sure you'll get
will probably agree
Is there anything you'd like to add?
Parvana: Well, as I said, it is very difficult to know what will happen
but all I hope, all we hope, the protectors of their rights
is the solidarity of our "idea holders"
because it's not only about arresting certain people
It's about arresting the ideas of people
which is moral torture
so we shouldn't let our ideas be tortured
and to be arrested
Onnik: Thank you very, very much for your time
Parvana: Thank you

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