Protests Held In Downtown Dallas For Freedom In Libya, Iran.
Published by CBS 11 News- February 20, 2011
By Marianne Martinez
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - They’re thousands of miles from Libya, but dozens of people at two demonstrations in Downtown Sunday said they feel they can make a difference.
“We’re Libyans in America,” said 20-year-old Khyrria, who did not want to give her last name. “I think it shows solidarity, support for the people there.”
Khyrria said her father fled Libya 30 years ago to escape the dictatorship of Muammar el-Qaddafi. She still has some family there, and attended the protest so they can live a better life.
“These people are starving. There’s no jobs, no education,” she said. ”We as Libyans, want to show them our support. Even in Dallas, Texas we can do it.”
Street rally in Dallas backs change in Iran
Published by WFAA- February 20, 2011
By David Badie
DALLAS — Iranian-Americans showed their solidarity with the ongoing protests in
their homeland at a demonstration in downtown Dallas on Sunday.
This rally is also against Iran's current government.
North Texans head to New York to protest Iranian president’s presence at the U.N.
Published by Star- Telegram- Sep. 23, 2009
Mahie Ghoraishi hasn’t been back to Iran since she was 3.
She wants to go back someday, to see the country and her relatives who still live there, but says she can’t until her country is free. Until then, she says she’ll speak out about the way people there are treated — being arrested, tortured, even killed for protesting election results some say falsely put Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in office as president.
Showing solidarity on Iran - Hundreds protest disputed election with downtown Dallas
Published by Dallas Morning News- July 10, 2009
By DAWSON WILLIAMS
About 600 people gathered in downtown Dallas on Thursday to protest Iran's recent election and to commemorate the 10th anniversary of an Iranian student uprising.
Iranian flags fluttered and chants of "United Nations, pay more attention!" and "Obama, Obama! Attention, attention!" rang out during the protest, outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building on Commerce Street.
Furor over Iranian leader
Published by Houston Chronicle on Tue 09/25/2007
By LISA FALKENBERG
FERESHTEH Ahmadi's 50-year-old voice gets high like a child's when she talks about her Iranian homeland.
She begins to sob and explains what it feels like to hear reports of an increasingly oppressive society, torture of political prisoners, unjust executions and to see TV images of her Iranian sisters doused in their state-sanctioned uniform coverings, ideally head-to-toe black chadors.
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