PRESS RELEASES
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Iran faces International Pressures as Global Day of Action Nears
85 cities and counting, Peace Leaders, Artist and Organizations
Join Worldwide New Media Driven Movement
in Solidarity with Iranian People
(July 23, 2009) On July 25th in more than 80 cities worldwide, Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Betty Williams, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Kim Dae-jung, joined by Dolores Huerta, Sean Penn, Dariush, Simin Behbahani, Ismael Khoie, 43 Arab Human Rights Organizations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, FIDH, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nobel Women’s Initiative, Peacejam, Reporters without Borders and hundreds of thousands of citizens around the globe will stand in solidarity with the Iranian people’s human and civil rights.
“The people of Iran have shown their desire for freedom, democracy and equality. No one needs to be told that injustice and oppression are wrong. We know that those who strive for freedom are on the winning side. You in Iran who want democracy and accountable government are on the winning side and we support you.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1984
“There have been critical moments in history when people have risen up to demand their human and civil rights. Once again we are at such a moment. Mass protests in Iran join Gandhi’s India, Martin Luther King’s USA, and Mandela’s South Africa. We are bearing witness to global outrage and solidarity. The world must unite with the people of Iran on July 25th, the global day of solidarity.”
Desmond Tutu and other Nobel Peace Laureates, Iranian Poets and Artists Support July 25th Global Day of Action
Press Contact:
Hadi Ghaemi +1 (917) 669 5996
To reach Nobel Peace Laureates Archbishop Destmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire and Jody Williams, please contact Pantea Beigi. To reach Simin Behbahani, Ismael Khoie or Dariush, please contact Hadi Ghaemi.
For information about the event in the Netherlands, contact Kamran Ashtary +31 (0) 6 465 93 979
July 20, 2009
Protests in Iran Continue – Global Activism Increasing
United4Iran, July 20, 2009 – “We deplore the violence and crackdown on peaceful protesters, the increasing restrictions on civil liberties, and the imprisonment of a growing number of civil leaders in Iran.” Archbishop Destmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1984
“If one country sincerely wants to support democracy in another country that is under dictatorial rule, the only thing to do is to support the freedom fighters who stand for the democratic institutions of that country. Done this way, the sapling of democracy will bear the flower of freedom.” Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights activist, Nobel Peace Laureate, 2003
“The Iranian leadership is violating the country’s own commitments to international human rights treaties, as well as contravening Iran’s own laws.” Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1976
“We call for the release of all political prisoners, the secession of violence against protesters, and respect for human rights and civil liberties in Iran.” Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1997
The two most prominent living Iranian poets, Ismael Khoie, and Simin Behbahani, who lives in Tehran, have joined the Global Day of Action. Dariush, socially conscious singer and Iranian cultural icon, will perform at the Washington D.C. United4Iran rally.
Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire and Jody Williams are available for interviews.
In over 55 cities around the world solidarity rallies are planned in support of civil and human rights for the Iranian people and for an end to the violence. Check www.united4Iran.org for a full list of participating cities and supporting organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, FIDH, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nobel Women’s Initiative and Peacejam
UNITED4IRAN PRESS RELEASE:
July 25: Global Day of Action for Human Rights in Iran
(July 8, 2009) Human rights activists are organizing a coordinated Global Day of Action on July 25, 2009 to demand respect for the human rights of the Iranian people and to demonstrate worldwide solidarity with the civil rights movement in Iran. Major human rights organizations have sponsored the event.
Around the world, people will gather in solidarity with the Iranian people following over a month of intensified state repression against citizens peacefully demonstrating for their rights. Many have been killed in the streets, many hundreds have been beaten and injured, and at least 2,000 are thought to have been detained.
The Global Day of Action is a not affiliated with any partisan political agenda, and is aimed at securing the internationally recognized rights of the Iranian people.
The organizers believe that while political questions facing Iran can only be resolved by the Iranian people themselves, the violent repression of their internationally guaranteed human rights are of concern to people all around the world.
The global day of action is organized around the following core demands:
1. That member states and civil society organizations of the international community give sustained attention to the Iranian people’s human rights as a matter of international concern, and that the UN should immediately initiate an investigation into grave and systematic human rights violations in Iran, including the fate of prisoners and disappeared persons, unlawful killings, and torture and other ill-treatment;
2. An end to state-sponsored violence, accountability for crimes committed and no recourse to the death penalty.
3. The immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience, including politicians, journalists, students, and civil society activists; and
4. Freedom of assembly, freedom of association, and freedom of expression (including freedom of the press) as guaranteed by the Iranian constitution and Iran’s obligations under international covenants that it has signed.
Initial sponsors of the Global Day of Action include: Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Iranian League for Defense of Human Rights (LDDHI), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders, PeaceJam, FIDH, Nobel Women’s Initiative, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
For more information:
Contact Hadi Ghaemi; phone +1 917 669 5996 , email: united4iran@gmail.com
Visit www.united4iran.org for the latest information and list of participating cities.
Netherlands contact: Kamran Ashtary +31 6 4659 3979, email: kamran.ashtary@gmail.com website:united4iran-nl.org
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