Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony:

Our Press Conference and Theirs

Invitation to attend the alternative press conference in Oslo

On Tuesday 9^th December a press conference will be held in Oslo with Shirin Ebadi – the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Simultaneously, outside the conference hall, we will also be holding a press conference. Two conferences with two different aims.

In their conference, they will portray the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi as honouring women’s rights and human rights in Iran. In our conference, we will talk about the Nobel Committee’s branding of people with such marks as ‘Muslim women’ and ‘Muslim world’, and the destructive consequences of this for millions of people in countries afflicted with Islam.

In their conference, they will talk about the compatibility of Islam and human rights. In our conference, we will talk about Islam’s open hostility towards human rights and women’s rights.

In their conference, they will offer a more delicate and tolerable image of Islamic government and political Islam. In our conference, the reactionary movement of political Islam and its countless crimes, especially in the last quarter century, in Iran and the world will be exposed.

In their conference, they will talk about appeasing and coming to terms with the Islamic regime in Iran and the possibility of reforming it. In our conference, we will talk about the Islamic regime’s hostility towards any form of human rights, the need to overthrow it and the revolution that is on the way.

The message of their conference will be appeasement of the Islamic regime and its embellishment. Our conference will carry the message of millions of people who abhor the Islamic regime; the message of the anti-religious and secularist movement in Iran and the Middle East; the message of workers, women and youth in Iran who are protesting against the Islamic Republic.

Come to our press conference and hear the truth!

Organisation for Women’s Liberation – Iran

Organisation of Women’s Freedom – Iraq

Campaign in Defence of Women’s Rights in Iran

Middle East Women’s Rights Committee

The campaign Don’t Forget Pila and Faduma!

International Committee Against Stoning

17 November 2003