روزنه rowzane خبری – تحلیلی
There is a popular and mass movement going on in Iran against the capital punishment and it has had certain successes. But it needs the international support to be able to stop theruling execution machine completely.
Following the announcement of the death sentences for three of the protesters, large sections of the population mobilized through social media to oppose the sentence.The “crime” of these three young people namely Saeed Tamjidi, Amir Hossein Moradi and MohammadRajabiis that they took part in the popular protests last year against very sharp rise in petrol prices, and against poverty and lack of freedom in society.
The unprecedented drive saw the “#Don’t execute them” hashtag become a Twitter trend and topped the listfor more than 24 hours.Following this massive social media movement that “#Dont’t execute them” hashtag was tweeted 11 million times, and petitionsthat were signed by 250,000 people, and the widespread and international reflection of these protests and the reaction of some Western states and the actions that took place in different countries; the judiciary of the Islamic Republic allowed the lawyers of these three young people to access their cases. That is after the trial and their conviction! The lawyers then announced that the sentences had been stoppedfor the time being and that their case would be re-examined.
Despitethis successful campaign, the three young men are still at serious risk of being executed. Sincethe 1979 revolution in Iran, the Islamic Republic has used executions and assassinations and terror as a tool to silence its opponents and suppress the people’s protests and intimidate society.
The right to protest is the most basic and undeniable international human right but the regime’s response to theprotesters has always been repression, arrests and even execution, because this is the only way they know for survival. We believe capital punishment is absolutely inhuman and should not be used anywhere in the human world anytime.
Wecall on you, the people of the world, to join the Iranian people In this historical struggleagainst barbaric acts of a barbaric regime against people. Our goal is to gain international support and exert pressure on the Islamic Republic to stop the death sentences. Our most urgent aim is to stop the death sentences for these three young men: AmirHossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohammad Rajabi whoare on the verge of execution.
Wecall on all trade unions and human rights organizations in the world to send a letter of protest to the leaders of the Islamic Republic and call on them to end all executions in Iran.
Wealso call on those European countries’ states, where executions are abolished, to protest explicitly against executions in Iran. Ambassadors of the Islamic Republic must be held to account in the international forums against executions in Iran. The IslamicRepublic can and should be forced to abandon this absolutely barbarian tool against people.
Kind regards
International Committee against Execution (ICAE)
Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)
Campaign to Free Jailed Workers (Free Them Now)
July 26, 2020
