Justice for Iran

In solidarity with the beautiful and courageous people of Iran.

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Human rights groups launch campaign to end executions in Iran Five human rights advocacy groups in five Western countries on Thursday launched a campaign to exert pressure on Iran to end what they described as a routine pattern of “arbitrary” and “inhumane” executions. The 346 No Executions campaign, including the Iranian Homosexual Human Rights Council, are based in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Italy and Germany. The name refers to the number of executions carried out in Iran in 2008, according to the latest Amnesty International report. The campaign is asking citizens in each member nation to submit letters of petition to their foreign ministries requesting that diplomatic pressure be applied to the government of Iran to abolish the death penalty. “Iran must stop taking innocent lives in such cavalier, arbitrary and brutal ways. It is our hope that these letters of petition will compel as many governments as possible to address the situation in Iran, and will as a result apply diplomatic pressure on the regime to uphold its own legal, moral and human rights obligations under the Universal Declaration,” the campaign said. According to Amnesty International, in 2008, Iran carried out the most executions in the world behind China, although its population is 18 times smaller.

Human rights groups launch campaign to end executions in Iran

Five human rights advocacy groups in five Western countries on Thursday launched a campaign to exert pressure on Iran to end what they described as a routine pattern of “arbitrary” and “inhumane” executions. The 346 No Executions campaign, including the Iranian Homosexual Human Rights Council, are based in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Italy and Germany. The name refers to the number of executions carried out in Iran in 2008, according to the latest Amnesty International report.

The campaign is asking citizens in each member nation to submit letters of petition to their foreign ministries requesting that diplomatic pressure be applied to the government of Iran to abolish the death penalty.

“Iran must stop taking innocent lives in such cavalier, arbitrary and brutal ways. It is our hope that these letters of petition will compel as many governments as possible to address the situation in Iran, and will as a result apply diplomatic pressure on the regime to uphold its own legal, moral and human rights obligations under the Universal Declaration,” the campaign said.

According to Amnesty International, in 2008, Iran carried out the most executions in the world behind China, although its population is 18 times smaller.

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    How can there peace when they continue to show violence?
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    government. Lovely.
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