Publication · Radio Farda · report of a collective statement
Defending a colleague’s voice
English editorial guide to the identified collective appeal.
Fifty-three writers and poets respond to the distortion of colleagues’ words and the punishment of writers in Iran.
- Author
- Collective signatories
- Publication
- Radio Farda · report of a collective statement
- Source date
- 18 November 2015
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
Ghazi Rabihavi appears in the published endorsement list. No sole authorship or organisational office is attributed to him.
Original English editorial guide to retained collective material. Demands and allegations remain attributed to the document; Rabihavi’s recorded role is a listed endorsement.
Words attributed to writers
The report connects the statement with interviews and representations of Ebrahim Golestan and Reza Baraheni that the signatories regarded as distortions. It also introduces the dispute over a Bahar interview with Baraheni, which his son described as misrepresented. These objections concern the authority to turn a writer’s voice into something serving another purpose. Source 1
The same statement supports Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Mehdi Mousavi and Mostafa Azizi in the face of imprisonment and corporal punishment. Its signatories emphasise solidarity across their own differences. Defence of a colleague is presented as a shared literary responsibility, rather than agreement on every political or artistic question. Source 1
Rabihavi’s place in the report
Radio Farda names Rabihavi among the fifty-three signatories. The report also introduces Hossein Ghavimi’s interview with Mehrangiz Kar about attacks on writers’ reputations. That embedded conversation is Kar’s contribution; it is not a separate interview with Rabihavi or evidence that he wrote the collective statement. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Radio Farda · statement by 53 writers
Report of 18 November 2015. Names Rabihavi among the signatories and reproduces passages of the statement. The embedded interview is with Mehrangiz Kar, not Rabihavi.