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From: Sala Diaz <[email protected]>
Date: June 21, 2009 10:52:00 AM PDT
To: Sala Diaz <[email protected]>
Subject: Petition for the release of all Iranians
Petition to the UNO and the EU
Please sign this petition and forward to friends:
http://petitions.tigweb.org/iranelection2009
Petition for the release of all Iranians, particularly the
university students, who have been inhumanely and unlawfully
arrested across Iran since the June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential
elections and the ensuing nation-wide demonstrations!
The Iranian people have taken to the streets after massive fraud
staged in the June 12, 2009, Iranian presidential elections. Since
that fateful day, there are daily incidents of bloody aggression
against civilian demonstrators by various government elements,
including the ‘Basij’ militia forces as well as official and
undercover police. But the brutality is not limited to the streets.
So far, several universities across Iran have been attacked by
special guard forces. University students have not only been
brutally beaten and forcefully arrested without presentation of any
warrants, but their place of detention remains unknown. At Teheran
University alone, seven students were killed, and more than 300
students were arrested. There is no information about their
whereabouts. Based on the massive scale and specificity of these
raids, it appears that these inhumane attacks were planned in advance.
We, as former and current university students, are deeply concerned
about the life and well-being of our fellow humans, our beloved
people in the Iranian prisons and we ask the UN and the EU not to
remain silent as the most basic of human rights are at this very
moment being violated in the most abhorrent manner. Your silence is
nothing less than a seal of approval, a guarantee of the visible and
invisible bloodshed in Iran; violent dehumanization that without
conscientious condemnation and meaningful, practical resistance is
sure not only to continue in Iran, but make complicit all those
around the world who stand by in silence. The violation of human
rights and human dignity knows no race, ethnicity, religion, gender
or nationality; it knows no border! The UN and EU are today
recognized as esteemed beacons of the protection of human rights.
They are the official and respected voice of human dignity for those
without a voice, those who like the innocent Iranian university st
udents whose fate remains unknown and their very lives in danger. To
stand by as gross violations are propagated against our fellow
humans makes each one of us, including the EU and UN as esteemed
international bodies, complicit in the violation of human rights.
Complacency is the only way that such inhumanity can spread, can
escape those bleak secret detention centers where students are
currently being held and enter into our own societies, families, and
individual lives. Let us not allow complacency and inaction be our
choice in this decisive moment. We, as former and current university
students, who by virtue of our fortunate circumstances are at this
crucial hour able to express the voice of our conscience, ask that
the EU and UN take responsible action and issue a robust response by
calling for the immediate release of all the innocent Iranian
university students brutally rounded up and unlawfully detained in
secret detention centres. Let us makes sure that the honouring of
human dignity and the protection of human rights, not
dehumanization, is what spreads from land to land, regardless of
border, in this one world of ours.
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