Belgian Plane Sit-In Ends; Iranian Protesters Leave: Reuters

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7874818

Belgian Plane Sit-In Ends, Iranian Protesters Leave
Fri Mar 11, 2005 03:18 AM ET

By An Verschave and Jan Vermeylen
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An overnight sit-in on board a Lufthansa plane by 56 Iranian monarchist protesters ended peacefully at Brussels airport Friday after Belgian police escorted them all off the aircraft.

The unarmed group of men, women and three children refused to leave the Boeing 737 flight from Frankfurt for 16 hours in a protest against Iran's Islamic government.

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One person was forcibly escorted off the plane at the end of the protest and another was treated by doctors after collapsing upon disembarking. Several riot control vehicles had assembled near the aircraft, which was flanked by police vans.

"We want the European Union to remove the Islamic leaders from Iran," Armin Atshgar, one of the protesters, told Reuters by mobile phone during the sit-in. "We want to remove the mullahs from power."

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1. Thread From Beginning of Sit-In

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1300521

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2. I wonder if they were paid by the hour?

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3. 56 Iranian monarchists - must have had every Shah supporter in the EU on

that plane.

MASSIVE show of grass-roots support for Reza.