Iranian activists protest Dr Jahanbegloo's detention

Today a petition signed by more than 600 university professors and students, activists, intellectuals, journalists and writers sent to the Government, protesting the detention of Dr Jahanbegloo was published. Many of the signers live inside the country. As Dr Jahanbegloo's main accusation is said to be 'espionage', the signers question the Government that which kind of precious info a philosopher can have to be given to foreign countries at all. At the end they have asked the Government to put aside this kind of worn out accusations and free him.

Just amid this mess the country is in and when our case in on the UN's table and a big threat is just a few meters away and when we need the national unity so badly, this kind of actions of the Government is really incomprehensible. What they think really? Do they think that the foreign attack is a joke?

The caricature above is by Iranian caricaturist Mr Neyestani. Some voice out of the solitary confinement is addressing Dr Jahanbegloo :" You think, thus you are a spy."