Freedom of speech</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Freedom of speech"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Freedom,of,speech"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">21-03-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Freedom of speech</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_aoY1A7KNgQuQH50ogf7w_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Azerbaijan (CASCFEN): The following is an excerpt from a text published by the Central Asian and Southern Caucasus Freedom of Expression Network (CASCFEN), in favour of freedom of speech for the indigenous languages in Iran. The source article also comprises an on-line petition. <br>“Referring to the latest statistics of UNESCO which clearly specifies that "half of the world’s 6000 to 7000 languages are in danger of extinction", the 23,000,000 Azerbaijanis of Iran (UN statistics 1998) composing 37% of Iranian population against 22,000,000 Farsi-speaking population of the country (35% as the same statistics) are facing the danger of extinction of their mother language due to the lack of educating their children in their own language.” <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.cascfen.org/contents.php?cid=158 " target="blank">www.cascfen.org/contents.php?cid=158 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show