Thursday 14 February 2013

More details of release, in English


INSTITUT LACAN
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ACTION COMMITTEE FOR THE LIBERATION OF MITRA
COMMUNICATION FROM THE CALM
Feb. 13 th 2013, 17 : 55 Paris Time
A MAIL FROM AFSHIN ZAMANI to J-A Miller


I received the following mail from Afshin Zamini, membre of the directors of the Freudian 
Association, at 12.31 am:  « Dear Mr Miller, congratulation. About one hour ago, Dr 
Kadivar  was informed that she is released, but they said  that her lawyer have to 
come for her release. So the lawyer will go to the hospital tomorrow. That will 
release her. We will contact you again. Best regards. Thank you so much.A. 
Zamani".

I asked a few questions. At 3.49 p.m., I got the following reply : « Dr Kadivar 
herself informed us of her release. Her lawyer is F* N*. He has no email address.
Dr. Kadivar told us that we must create him an email address. We will make it 
and sent the address to you. His mobile no°: +980xxxxx and 980xxxxxx. Regards. 
AZ"
Other mails: 3.55 p.m.: "Farzam Parva is our coordinator with the lawyer. He 
knows English. His mobile n°: +980xxxxxx." 16 : 31 : "You can just dial 0098 to 
connect to Iran, and then for office n° dial 021 (Tehran n°.) But for mobile you 
just dial 0098 and then 0912 is for mobile."

Stay tuned in.

[Thanks to Victoria Woollard for the translation]

Tuesday 12 February 2013

news just in - released

an email just circulated with news of Mitra's release from the hospital.

COMMUNIQUE DU CALM
Feb. 13 th 2013, 07 : 50 Paris Time

Jacques-Alain Miller


At 7.46 a.m. I received a mail from S*, otherwise Professior Siamak Movahedi, Professor and Chair.

The mail said : « This just came from a couple of psychiatrists: You can now
relax. “Dear Dr Movahedi, I talked with dr Ghadiri a couple of minutes ago. He is
discharging her from Hospital now. Sincerely yours,” »

I replied : « Please thank Dr Ghadiri for this wise decision. Would you give me
your phone number ? I would like to congratulate you on this very emotional
moment. Long live our friendship ! »

I consider this information to be correct. In all likelihood, Mitra is free. I am confidently waiting for a call or a mail from her or from one of her students.

Stay tuned !

Jacques-Alain Miller
        

Please sign Avaaz petition

A new petition on Avaaz has been launched, this is a part of the message translated from French:

"Mitra Kadivar, MD and courageous pioneer of psychoanalysis in Iran has been held for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital in Iran... tied to a bed and ... forced injections of neuroleptics.

... to stop this scandalous situation and remind them that we will not forget Mitra"

please sign the avaaz petition

http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Liberez_Mitra_Kadivar/?fYYJjbb&pv=3

http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Liberez_Mitra_Kadivar/?fYYJjbb&pv=3


Sunday 10 February 2013

Iranian Psychoanalyst Mitra Kadivar held in Teheran Hospital

The Iranian psychoanalyst Mitra Kadivar has been held against her will for six weeks already and subjected to forced  medication and treatment in an Iranian psychiatric hospital in an apparent attempt to discredit and intimidate. 


Apparently her neighbours misinterpreted her work (she was seen to be welcoming men, one at a time, and spending time together alone in a closed room, drug addicts visited her...) and reported her to 'the authorities' who responded with dark  humour - they concocted a diagnosis of 'late onset schizophrenia', and proceded to 'treat' her, against reason, and against her will.

Her students raised the alert to get friends to help to free Mitra, but after six weeks of quiet and discreet negotiations behind the scenes, which aimed (and finally failed) to rectify the situation, it was realised that the struggle would have to go up a notch, and go public. So, last Thursday, 7th Feb, the French philospher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy posted a report of her plight on his website La regle du jeu  (in French) - for an English translation please click here. A report appeared the same day in Le Point magazine (in French) - for an English translation please click here. An interview with Jacques Alain Miller about Mitra also appeared in Le Point the same day (in French).

Mitra trained as a Lacanian psychoanalyst in Paris, and is a member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne , she has many friends there and around the world. Jacques-Alain Miller and Bernard-Henri Lévy are working together to mobilise the support of the various psy-networks  around the world, and have organised a petition, already signed by more than 2000 people including politicians, writers, analysts, & film makers.

A dedicated website - http://mitra2013.com/ -  has been constructed with pages translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.

The Huffington Post also carried an article on 9th Feb (in French).

One email has been received from Mitra since the campaign has gone public, she gained access to the internet on Friday 8th Feb and sent a brief message to say thank you to Jaques Alain Miller and  Bernard-Henri Lévy for drawing attention to the attempt by the 'authorities' to 'get rid' of her.

Colleagues from Nice, France, would like to encourage you to write letters to Mitra, and found the address of the hospital:
Iranian Psychiatric Hospital
School of Medicine
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Km Karaj Special Road
at the edge of beltway of north Azadegan,
after Ansaar town, behind of Shahid Tondgoyan parking
the Center of Psychiatry
Tehran
IRAN

If you would like to join the international network to help get Mitra out of danger, then please at least add your signature:  http://mitra2013.com/mitrakadivar/

If you would like to help mobilise more support and pressure, please do get in touch (see side panel).