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Campaign to end executions in Iran

Hamid Enayat
Hamid Enayat
<p>Activistas de la Sociedad Iraní en el Exilio sostienen pancartas y horcas mientras se manifiestan en solidaridad con los manifestantes antigubernamentales en su país de origen, el 19 de enero de 2023 frente al edificio del Reichstag que alberga el Bundestag - AFP/ODD ANDERSEN&nbsp;</p>
Activists from the Iranian Society in Exile hold banners and pitchforks as they demonstrate in solidarity with anti-government protesters in their home country on 19 January 2023 in front of the Reichstag building that houses the Bundestag - AFP/ODD ANDERSEN
On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty, a campaign has been launched to call for an end to executions in Iran. 
10/10/24

While the world is rightly concerned about the war in the Middle East, Iran's weakened religious dictatorship, fearful of a popular uprising, is taking advantage of the situation to step up executions and spread terror across the country. 

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Since the new Iranian president, Massoud Pezeshkian, presented as a ‘reformer’, took office, more than 267 people have been executed in Iran. Since the beginning of October alone, 37 prisoners have been hanged, including three women. Recently, three other opponents, Mohammad Javad Vafaï, 29, a boxing champion, Mehdi Hassani, 48, and Behrouz Ehsani, 69, accused of being ‘apostates’ for their membership of the People's Mujahedin (PMOI) and their participation in the 2022 uprising, have been sentenced to death and face the gallows. 

Jornada Internacional por la Abolición de la Pena de Muerte
International Day for the Abolition of the Death Penalty

To date, 1,500 dignitaries from 78 countries, including 450 parliamentarians, 34 political leaders, Nobel Laureates, lawyers and human rights experts support the #StopExecutionsinIran campaign. They call for urgent global action to end the regime's use of executions for political repression and to hold Iran's leaders accountable. The lack of response from the international community has encouraged the regime to continue its repression and torture, especially through executions. 

Among the many signatories of this appeal: 

Martine Aubry, Clémentine Autain (MP), Florence Berthout (mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris), Ingrid Betancourt, Zerrin Bataray, Pascal Bruckner, André Chassaigne, Chiarra Corraza, Jean-François Debat (mayor of Bourg-en-Bresse), Juliette De Causans, Marie Dose, Heidi Hautala (former vice-president of the European Parliament), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (former Prime Minister of Finland), Bianca Jagger, Mathieu Klein (Mayor of Nancy), Emmanuel Leclercq, Anne Elise Le Gall, Aude Lagarde (Mayor of Drancy), Jean-François Legaret, Gérard Leseul (MEP), Michelle Gréaume (Senator), Yvonne Le Dain, Oleksandra Matviichuk (Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize 2022), Professor Juan E. Méndez (UN Special Rapporteur on Torture until 2016), Olivier Paccaud (senator), Petre Roman (former Prime Minister of Romania), Natan Sharansky, Marie Toussaint (MEP), Laurence Tubiana, Virginie Voltier, Caroline Yadan (MP).... and many others, warn that: ‘Since the beginning of 2024, political prisoners in 20 prisons in Iran have been on hunger strike every Tuesday as part of the “No to Executions” campaign to stop executions in Iran. We must support them. 

The Committee for the Support of Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) invites you to read this appeal and the names of the signatories, and to echo this campaign on World Day Against the Death Penalty. 

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