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[Rick Halperin]

April 14



IRAN:

Execution of political prisoners in Iran condemned in New York


Iranian community in New York condemned execution of political prisoners
in Iran in a demonstration outside the UN headquarters on Tuesday, April
11.

Participants in the demonstration deplored the death warrant issued for
Mr. Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi, 28, a member of the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran, who has been in prison for the past 5 years as a
political prisoner.

Iranians in New York demonstration also called for tough measures against
the clerical regime for its gross violations of human rights and nuclear
weapons program in total defiance of the world community's demand to stop
all its activities.

In their resolution adopted at the end of the demonstration, they called
on all international human rights groups to intervene and stop the
execution of Political prisoners in Iran.

(source: National Council of Resistance of Iran)