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Source: Azarmehr Blog

September 2, 2010

As soon as you can see Norway’s magnificent forests and lakes from your aeroplane window, you get a sense of a freshness and natural beauty. You won’t be wrong either, it is a beautiful country, it is efficiently run and the only oil producing country which has not fallen victim to despotism, corruption and mass poverty. Norway is prosperous, its people are beautiful, hospitable, courteous and very civilised. This was my first visit to a Scandinavian country but I wasn’t going there as a tourist. I was going to Oslo to be alongside the famous Iranian Human Rights Lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, in what turned out to be a roller coaster of emotional anxiety and waiting but fortunately a very happy ending.

Mostafaei got in trouble with the regime in Iran after he helped publicise the stoning case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Unable to get hold of Mostafaei, the Iranian intelligence ministry had resorted to the despicable act of taking his family members as hostages. Mostafaei’s wife, his brother-in-law and even his elderly father-in-law were all taken into Evin prison. They were being held as hostages to get their hands on Mostafaei. The regime’s desperate act of taking family members as hostages however, only exposed the backwardness and illegality of Ahmadinejad’s administration. As someone once told me, Islamic Republic’s worst enemy is itself. They accuse everyone who disagrees with them as ‘threats to national security’ but the real threat to national security is none other than their own backward laws, their intolerance and their disregard for human rights and normal behaviour.
This morning however all those terrible times were put behind the Mostafaei family. Finally common sense prevailed and a loving wife and daughter joined their dear husband and father.
I am not going to write much more, I let the mass media that were there to cover this joyful event, do a better job than me. Just one note however to finish this post. There was not a single Iranian journalist there, no one from BBC Persian, VOA Persian, Radio Farda or any of those well funded organisations. An observation that once again confirms what I have said, we do not have good reporters outside Iran. We have lazy journalists who at best like to interview people.

Watch the footage of the reunion here:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10027091
Cry No More Parmida. No One Will Arrest Your Mum or Dad Now.

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September 1, 2010

Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari

In recent days, Kayhan, the Iranian daily newspaper which is a media arm of the Iranian Supreme Leader,  Seyyed Ali Khamenei published an editorial by the editor-in-chief, Hossein Shariatmadari where he called Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady of France a whore for penning a letter in support of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, the Iranian woman who is sentenced to death by stoning. The editorial was not only diplomatically scandalous but also epitomized the pervasive misogyny of the Iranian regime’s elite.

Then in a limp and insincere attempt to walk back the slanderous remark, Ramin Mehmanparast, the spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry said: “The Islamic Republic of Iran is not in favor of insulting officials of other countries.” But of course this fell on deaf ears because hours after this half-hearted appeal to the ‘nation’s media’, Shariatmadari followed his first rant with another, this time saying that Bruni-Sarkozy deserves to die!

So in an attempt to support the First lady of France, Planet Iran calls upon all our fellow Iranians as well as non-Iranians around the world, to contact Madame Bruni-Sarkozy’s office in Paris to thank her for her humanity in supporting Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani and her grace in the face of such vulgarity.

Madame Bruni-Sarkozy’s office telephone number is: France country code 33/Paris city code 1/4292-8524. Her office is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Paris time.

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The Lebanese Christians protested the program’s airing and it was taken off the air.

Source: The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

August 26, 2010

The Iranian series "The Christ," broadcast by Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV and the Lebanese Shi’ite channel NBN-TV, affiliated with the Amal movement (Picture from the Al-Manar TV website, August 13, 2010).

Overview

1. The series “The Christ” (Al-sayid al-masih in Arabic) was broadcast at the beginning of August 2010 in Lebanon both by Al-Manar TV, Hezbollah’s satellite channel, and the Shi’ite Lebanese channel NBN-TV, affiliated with the Amal movement and Nabih Berri. It was broadcast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time when the rate of television viewing is particularly high in the Muslim world. It was also broadcast by the Iranian Arabic-language channel Al-Kawthar TV.

2.  The Christian community in Lebanon strongly protested the program, and after broadcasting the first few episodes Al-Manar TV and NBN TV were forced to announce they were taking the series off the air. Despite the storm raised by the broadcasts in Lebanon, the Iranian channel Al-Kawthar TV continued airing it.

3. This is not the first time that Hezbollah has broadcast a blatantly anti-Semitic series for Ramadan. In November 2003 it broadcast the Syrian-produced series Al-Shatat (“Diaspora,” i.e., the exile of the Jewish people from their homeland), and from Lebanon it was distributed to many other countries. The series presented an anti-Semitic, pseudo-historical survey of the history of the Jewish people and Zionism, and included the anti-Semitic blood libel (i.e., that Jews baked the Passover matzo with the blood of Christian children).¹

4. Al-Manar TV is very popular in the Arab world. Arab satellite companies (dominated by Egypt and Saudi Arabia) and others (European and Indonesian) provide the channel with technical services, allowing it to be received by many target audiences in the Middle East and throughout the world (including Muslim communities in the West). The United States and European countries recognized the negative influence Al-Manar TV’s hate propaganda and incitement programs had on their Muslim communities (the religious incitement in “The Christ” illustrates that well) and so far imposed limitations on its broadcasts. The limitations are ineffective and both Hezbollah and Hamas circumvent them.²

The subject matter of “The Christ”

5. Produced in Iran in 2008, the series tells the story of the life of Jesus. The plot of the story shows the Muslim point of view that he was a prophet, but not the most important one (that distinction is reserved for Muhammad). In addition, according to Islam, there is no foundation for the Holy Trinity.³

6. Examples follow of offensive elements (from the first two episodes, which were uploaded to YouTube):

1. In the first episode Satan appears before Jesus and tries to keep Him from fulfilling His mission as prophet. He tells Jesus that He is the son of God, but Jesus “passes the test” and does not accept what Satan says.

The figure of Jesus in the series (From Al-Kawthar TV)

1. In the same episode Jesus says “I am far less important than [others who] serve God” [which infers that Jesus has less stature than other prophets, especially Muhammad].
2. At the end of the first episode one of His disciples asks Him, “Shall we go catch fish?” and Jesus responds, “No, we’ll go hunt men.”

7. In addition to the offensive treatment of Jesus, in the first two episodes there are clear examples of anti-Semitism. The Jews are depicted as conspirators, liars, traitors, cowards, evil, ugly greedy and Satanic. The Jewish residents of Jerusalem are represented as crooked merchants. [Note: This analysis is based on the first two episodes of the series. It is reasonable to assume that later episodes, which deal with the betrayal of Jesus to the Romans, contain similar and more blatant examples of anti-Semitism]. For example:

Jews in the series: A Jew informs on plotters againt the Roman authorities Jews in the series: Jews counterfeit coins to build the next Temple. Jesus calls the Jewish priests "sons of snakes" several times (the snake is a familiar anti-Semitic motif). A priest says the Israelites have sunk to the depths. The Jews are worried by Jesus' success, and one says, "This may destroy our profits." Jesus again calls the Jews "sons of snakes." Jesus to his disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee: "Among the Israelites are many devils who stir up terrible civil wars."

Broadcasts stopped in Lebanon following strong Christian protests

8. The first episodes of the series broadcast in Lebanon were perceived as insulting Christianity and led to strong protests by Christians. The Catholic Information Center said that the series contained “offensive deception.” The pastor of the Maronite Church in Byblos (Jbeil), Beshara Raii, called the series a sectarian civil war violating the National Pact⁴ and the [principle of] living in cooperation (www.dostor.org).

9. It was reported that following the protests, Lebanon’s general security apparatus, which is responsible for censorship, ordered Al-Manar TV and NBN-TV to stop broadcasting the series because if infuriated the country’s Christians (www.nowlebanon.com and Al-Nahar, August 13, 2010). In response, on the same day the two channels said in a joint announcement that they had decided to stop broadcasting the series “in respect of some sensitivities and to avoid any attempt for negative exploitation.” However, they said, the series “reflects, with full honor and glorification, [Jesus'] life, picture, role, pain and sacrifices.”

Al-Manar TV and NBN-TV announce they are stopping the broadcasts (Al-Manar TV, August 13, 2010).

10. Despite the protests in Lebanon which led to ending the broadcasts, the Iranian Arabic-language channel Al-Kawthar TV continued airing the series. It even used its website to ask viewers what their opinion of it was. The responses posted praised it.

From the Arabic-language website of the Iranian Al-Kawthar TV; the surfers considered it an excellent series

² For further information see the August 23, 2010  bulletin, “A number of satellite companies (including Western companies) continue providing communication services for Hezbollah and Hamas’ television and radio, even though restrictions have been imposed by Europe and the United States. Supported by foreign companies, Hezbollah and Hamas are able to extend their range around the world, including Muslim communities” at http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e125.pdf

³ http://www.dostor.org/politics/middle-east/10/august/13/25320

⁴ The National Pact was an unwritten agreement forged in Lebanon in 1943 among the various ethnic sects which divided positions of political power and determined the modus vivendi for the internal Lebanese arena and the principles of the country’s foreign policy.

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August 30, 2010

Member of the ultra hardline Motalefeh party, Hamid-Reza Taraghee

Members of the Motalefeh Party, close to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, have criticised the appointment of special envoys by the government of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The ultra hardline Motalefeh party members claim that Iran’s special envoys to Afghanistan, Asia, the Caspian Sea and the Middle East should be appointed from within the Foreign Ministry.

Ahmadinejad on Sunday appointed his controversial Chief of Staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie, as Special Envoy to the Middle East, triggering a backlash from some members of the hard-line establishment. Rahim-Mashaie, whose daughter is married to Ahmadinejad’s son, has been accused of swaying from the Islamic Republic’s core principles in his public remarks.

Ahmadinejad also appointed Hamid Baqaei as special envoy for Asian affairs, Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh Basti for Caspian Sea affairs and Abolfazl Zohrehvand for Afghanistan affairs. Akhoundzadeh Basti is believed to have been involved in the murder of Iranian opposition figures abroad.

Motalefeh foreign policy chief Hamid-Reza Taraqi told the state-run Mehr news agency on Friday that he was unhappy that influential decision-making roles were going to Presidential envoys, adding that the Presidency has never had such an organisational chart. The hard-line MP said Foreign Ministry staff would have more expertise in their field of work than individuals appointed by the President.

Motalefeh is short for Jam’iyat Motalefeh Islami, or Unified Islamic Association. It came into existence in the 1960s as a clandestine radical Islamic extremist group supporting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Its members assassinated the Shah’s Prime Minister Hassan-Ali Mansour and several other political figures. Its leaders, who hailed from Tehran’s Bazaar, became multi-billionaire entrepreneurs after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

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August 30, 2010

Kamran Daneshjou, Iranian regime’s Minister of Science has threatened that universities which oppose the regime and its paramilitary Bassij forces must be destroyed.

According to the Mehr news agency on Sunday, Kamran Daneshjou added that the role of universities is to “train cadres for the establishment.”

“If the thieves from the East and the West succeed in controlling the university atmosphere [in Iran], they will then succeed in turning it to the liberal democracy of their liking instead of an Islamic university. They will define progress and growth and the criteria and values of the university on the basis of their own desires.”

Daneshjou said universities that ridicule the culture of the regime’s suppressive paramilitary Bassij Force, those which reject the regime’s religious claims, or campuses where clerics do not dare to enter would be better off not existing at all. “The Iranian people, students, employees and instructors will demolish such a university.”

Daneshjou is a close aide to the mullahs’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was Ahmadinejad’s campaign manager during the sham presidential elections in 2009. As the mullahs’ Minister of Science, he has repeatedly called for changing the status quo in the country’s campuses, where protests against the clerical regime continue to grow. During their anti-regime demonstrations, university students chant, “Get lost Bassiji,” in reference to the highly disliked members of the suppressive organ.

Several weeks ago, Daneshjou remarked that being committed to the principle of absolute clerical rule should be a pre-condition for hiring professors. Addressing “Bassiji professors” of Hamedan University, he had said, “We want to hire professors that believe in the principle of absolute clerical rule.”

He added in the same speech that, “One of the fundamental problems of our universities is that they have been defined by western standards. In order to solve this problem, one must dispense with such an atmosphere and create a new one.”

In February, Daneshjou had warned students and professors not in line with the Iranian regime’s policies will be expelled.

Recently, Ahmadinejad’s deputy for Management and Human Capital Development, Lotfollah Forouzandeh, had said that review committees should be formed to identify those who “cause instability” in campuses.

A large number of professors have been expelled or forced to resign in recent months. The pace of changing the landscape of Iran’s campuses increased rapidly during the post-June 2009 nationwide uprising which rattled the regime.

The mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has also expressed worries about the situation in universities and persisting protests, calling on regime officials to move quickly to suppress dissent on campuses.

The mullahs’ Minister of Science said in his most recent remarks that Khamenei “has said that universities are a haven for the enemy’s plots. … So, our teachers have a duty with regards to His Excellency’s warnings.” He also criticized current university programs.

For his part, Ahmadinejad has claimed that “our education system has been influenced by secular thought and beliefs of the arrogant powers.” He also threatened dissident students, saying, “Our students must cry out against liberal and liberal economic ideas.”

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We’re still standing

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we will be there on Quds Day

Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, I give my life for Iran

A video call to protests on Quds day. The text and voice-over in the video say:

“Greetings to all those who fight for freedom. If I rise up, you also rise up, we will all rise up. Quds Day will bring about another legend. We the youth who inside and outside Iran support the Green movement, show our support for Mr. Karroubi who himself announced, he will come out to the streets once again to be present with all our brave people. We call upon everyone to prepare themselves for a confrontation  on the 12th of Shahrivar (September 3rd) and with the slogan “Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, I give my life for Iran” we will pour into the streets in order to let the Iranian Coup d’Etat regime know that the Green movement is alive and well. The locations for the march will be announced in the upcoming days. Be patient, the dawn draws near!”

Quds Day is the Green Day of Power Against the Blackhearted Coup d'Etat'ists'

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Ahmadinejad threatens the whole wide world    –    Cartoon by Nikahang Kosar

* * Monday, August 30th live news feed from Saham News reports: More than fifty plain clothes agents as well as members of the Basij militia have swarmed to and surrounded Mahdi Karroubi’s residence in Tehran. The agents who are armed, have covered their faces and head with balaclavas for fear of recognition through photographs and video taken by citizen reporters. The agents are also seen with caches of tear gas, handcuffs, high voltage tasers and electroshock weapons as well as batons and night sticks. The guards prevented Karroubi from leaving his house to attend the Ghadr Night* ceremony. Reportedly this is a step taken by the Iranian regime as a backlash to Karroubi’s call for Green supporters to join him for the anti-regime Quds Day protests.

UPDATE: The number of agents grew to 100 and prevented the Karroubi family from entering or leaving their resident. The agents and their mob of supporters chanted against Karroubi however this time the agents did not break the windows or throw paint on Karroubi’s house, as they did on March 14th.

* Ghadr Night or “night of power” refers to a night in the holy month of Ramadan in which the Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammad

* * China visa black market being run out of Chinese embassy in Tehran. According to received reports a black market outfit inside the Chinese embassy in Tehran is selling visas to China for astronomical prices. There are nine different visa categories to China and the regular cost of obtaining a visa is seventy thousand Tomans (approximately $70 US), however the black market visas are said to cost anywhere between six hundred thousand ($600 US) to seven hundred thousand Tomans ($700 US). Based on this report anyone who is able to pay this price receives the visa in one day.

* * The Revolutionary Guards are setting forests throughout Iran on fire claiming to be ’smoking out’ anti-regime forces hiding out in the forests of Iran. In recent months the number of forest fires all across Iran has skyrocketed. Residents of areas who in an attempt to save their properties have tried to put the fires out, have been confronted by threats and abuse from the guards.  Many villages and farms have been engulfed by the flames and farmers are said to have lost their homes, crops and their farm animals. Reports also indicate that the charred bodies of a large number of extinct wildlife indigenous to Iran have also been found.

* * As we reported in our news round-up last week, the slogan writing on cash notes in Iran continues. Here is a sample of the latest round, with names of political prisoners emblazoned on them.

The top note reads >> Political Prisoners: Shiva Nazar-Ahari, Majid Tavakkoli, Kayvon Samimi and the bottom note reads >> Political Prisoner: Abdollah Momeni, Hossein Nourani-Nejad, Zia Nabavi, Mansour Osanloo

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August 29, 2010

Europe-based Persian student activists are coming together for a conference in Germany in October of 2010. The three-day “Call for Dialogue” will be held at Berlin Free University on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of October 2010.

The conference organizers have announced that “the current political situation of Iran causes its nationals who live both inside its geographical territories and across the globe to gasp for air under the shell of a seemingly endless night. The recent waves of protest in Iran, despite all the sacrifices, have not yet broken down the dam of repression, oppression, and crackdown. Bloods has been washed off the streets, but the struggle is by no means over.”

www.youthdialog.blogspot.com

The student activists believe that the Persian (Iranian) protest movement now requires careful reflection of the past and the creation of new perspectives to determine future actions and guide its existence. The experience of the movement clearly demonstrates that organizing from below is necessary to end cycles of domination.

The non-partisan “Call for Dialogue” organizers, add, “Our generation has never had the possibility to create an independent response to the established inhumane practices of our government. As a result, we see the need to organize a series of meetings and dialogues concerning issues surrounding the concept of ‘organizing from below’. These sessions have been arranged by students and young political activists who seek to set the foundation for an independent and distributed organization of youth and students. The formation of such an organization through a ‘from below’ process necessitates the discussion of sensitive issues by members of various concerned groups. Therefore, it is crucial that many diverse young activists gather to discuss the pivotal topics and problems pertaining to the self-organization of Iranian students and youth abroad.

“To this end, we call for interested groups to gather and discuss the issues surrounding formation of an independent, distributed, self-organization of youth and students abroad. We believe that alternative approaches can be developed with collective intellect and that for that reason, we need to engage in continuous dialogue. We hope that this gathering will be the opening chapter of a novel experience in the political arena.”

Berlin Free University

The focus of the three day gathering will be the following themes:

1. The necessity to form an independent, distributed, self-organized groups of the Iranian youth and students abroad
   (The difficulties of the current political situation; requirements and prospects of transition)
2. Revisiting the experience of the activities of the youth networks abroad, particularly in the past year
   (Achievements, shortcomings, and possibilities of a more widespread self-organization of these networks)
3. An overview of the international experiences regarding the organization of youth and the students
   (With an emphasis on the experiences of self-organized international groups)
4. Alternative models of independent self-organization of youth and students abroad
   (With an emphasis on organizing from below: how and why?)

Format of the gathering

Our goal is to provide the possibility of active participation in this meeting, in such a way that they get to know and talk to each other, trust one another, and think together so that we can eventually find common objectives for collaboration. To this aim, the meeting will be held as panel discussions and open discussion sessions.

The content of the panels will be the articles that are to be submitted and presented by participants. The submission of articles is not mandatory for participation in the meeting. Furthermore, some of the panels will bring together Persian-speaking with non-Persian speaking international activists and will be held in English or German.

Article submission

All interested youth and students are encouraged to submit articles related to the above themes. Submit by 15thSeptember, 2010 to youthdialog@gmail.com . Articles should be in “MS-Word” format. The received articles will be all published in both digital and print formats and will become accessible to the public on the website of the meeting.

Due to time constraints, only a selection of articles will be presented by the author. The list of the articles and the participants of the panels will be announced on the 20th of September.

Registration

In order to facilitate the arrangements of the meeting, interested youth and students are kindly requested to inform the organizers of their attendance by sending in a registration form to youthdialog@gmail.com. Registration will also be possible at the site of the meeting. It should be noted that personal details of the participants are not mandatory for registration.

Facilities:

During the gathering, accommodations will be available free of charge inside the university sport halls or dorms. Participants should bring their own sleeping bags.

For information regarding cheap public transportation, please contact your local youth network. In order to get in touch with your local network, you can contact youthdialog@gmail.com.

Time and location

Friday 1st- Sunday 3rd October, 2010

Freie Universität Berlin

Registration fee: 20 Euros, student-card holders 10 Euros

The registration fee covers 3 days of the gathering and is just an aid to the expenses of the meetings

Conference blog in Persian www.youthdialog.blogspot.com

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Source: International Committee Against Stoning

August 28, 2010

On August 28, 2010 one hundred cities around the world are rising up to protest the barbaric practice of stoning, as well as to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran. This day will be recorded in the annals of humanity as a manifestation of the protest, during the prior weeks, by millions of people across the globe against stoning as the most heinous form of medieval cruelty. It is a disgrace to humanity that, at the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century, stoning is still practiced in Iran and similar Islam-stricken countries. We, the citizens of 100 cities, hereby unequivocally declare that this blot must be removed from the face of humanity immediately and permanently.

On this day we also protest against the regime of stoning in Iran. This regime has, during the 31 years of its existence, committed genocide, established a system of sexual apartheid in Iran, and made imprisonment, execution, torture, rape of political prisoners, and the rule of pre-medieval Islamic Sharia the law of the land. Such a regime is not the representative of the people of Iran. It is their murderer, and its leaders must be brought to trial before international tribunals for their crimes against humanity.

Further, the international protest of August 28 is yet another manifestation of the solidarity of people around the world with the people of Iran, who have heroically risen up to bring down the regime of stoning, the Islamic code of punishment (Qesaas), Hijab, torture, and execution. We, the citizens of 100 cities worldwide, proudly declare that we consider ourselves the standard bearers of the universal front of humanity against barbarity. We support the struggles of the people of Iran against one of the cruelest regimes in the history of humankind. We, therefore, emphatically declare, on behalf of the world’s civilized humanity, that the path to the liberation of the Iranian people will not pass through threats or military action against, the country, but through the removal of the regime of the Islamic Republic by the power of the struggles of people in Iran and across the world.

The following are our common demands on August 28, 2010 throughout 100 cities of the world:

1- The immediate and unconditional freedom of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and all other prisoners in Iran sentenced to be stoned to death.

2- The abolition of stoning in Iran and elsewhere. We demand that the United Nations urgently adopt a specific resolution forbidding stoning as an inhuman punishment all over the world.

3- Not recognizing the Islamic regime of stoning in Iran as the government of that country and, thus, banning it from all international bodies.

4- Bringing to trial the perpetrators of stoning. Stoning is one of the most abominable forms of crime against humanity. Any individual, group, organization or state executing the punishment of stoning must be prosecuted and tried by international tribunals.

We continue our struggles until we have achieved all of these demands. As an immediate, primary step to that end, we demand that Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the president of the regime of stoning, be stopped from entering the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2010.

www.stopstonningnow.com www.notonemoreexecution.org

www.missionfreeiran.org www.iransolidarity.org.uk

minaahad@aol.com 0049-177 569 2413

Protestverklaring op 28 augustus 2010 van

100 Steden Over de hele Wereld Tegen Steniging

Op 28 augustus 2010 komen honderd steden over de hele wereld in opstand en protesteren tegen de barbaarse praktijk om mensen te stenigen, maar ook om het leven te redden van Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran.

Deze dag zal de geschiedenis ingaan als een protestmanifestatie door miljoenen mensen over de hele wereld. Zij zulllen protesteren tegen steniging als de meest afschuwelijke vorm van middeleeuwse wreedheid. En niet alleen op 28 augustus, maar ook al weken voorafgaand aan 28 augustus.

Het is een schande voor de menselijkheid dat, tegen het einde van het eerste decennium van de 21^e eeuw, steniging nog steeds plaatsvindt in Iran en andere islamitische landen.

Wij, de inwoners van 100 steden, verklaren hierbij duidelijk dat deze smet op de menselijkheid onmiddellijk en voor altijd moet verdwijnen.

Op deze dag protesteren we ook tegen het regime in Iran. Dit regime heeft gedurende haar 31 jarige bestaan rassenmoord gepleegd, een systeem van seksuele apartheid ingesteld in Iran, en heeft gevangenschap, executies, marteling en verkrachting van politieke gevangenen, en de regels van de voor-middeleeuwse Sharia tot regel en wet gemaakt.

Een dergelijk regime is niet de vertegenwoordiging van de Iraanse bevolking. Het is hun moordenaar, en hun leiders moeten worden berecht door een internationaal tribunaal, voor hun misdaden tegen de menselijkheid.

Verder is het internationale protest van 28 augustus ook een uiting van solidariteit van de wereldbevolking met het Iraanse volk, dat heldhaftig is opgestaan om de Iraanse praktijken van steniging, de islamitische strafwetten (Qesaas), Hijab, marteling en executies te stoppen.

Wij, de bewoners van 100 steden over de hele wereld verklaren trots dat we onszelf beschouwen als de dragers van het wereldwijde humane front tegen barbaarsheid.

Wij steunen de strijd van het Iraanse volk tegen een van de wreedste regimes in de geschiedenis van de mensheid.

Vol medeleven verklaren wij namens de geciviliseerde mensheid, dat de weg naar bevrijding van het Iraanse volk niet zal geschieden via dreigementen of militaire actie tegen het land, maar door het verwijderen van het regime van de Islamitische Republiek door de kracht van de mensen in Iran en in de wereld.

Hier volgen onze algemene eisen van 28 augustus 2010 namens 100 steden over de wereld:

1.       Onmiddellijke en onvoorwaardelijke vrijlating van Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani en alle andere gevangenen die tot steniging veroordeeld zijn.

2.       Afschaffing van steniging in Iran en op andere plaatsen. Wij eisen dat de Verenigde Naties met spoed een resolutie aanneemt die steniging en andere inhumane straffen over de hele wereld verbiedt.

3.       Het niet erkennen van het Islamitische Iraanse regime als de regering van Iran, en derhalve deelname verbieden aan alle internationale overlegorganen.

4.       Uitvoerders van stenigingen berechten. Steniging is een van de afschuwelijkste vormen van misdaad tegen de mensheid. Elk individu, elke groep, organisatie of land die steniging als straf uitvoert moet worden vervolgd en berecht door internationale tribunalen.

Wij gaan door met onze strijd tot we al deze eisen bereikt hebben. Als eerste en onmiddellijke stap om zover te komen, eisen we dat Mahmood Ahmadinejad, president van het stenigingsregime niet toegelaten wordt in de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in september 2010.

www.stopstonningnow.com www.notonemoreexecution.org

www.missionfreeiran.org www.iransolidarity.org.uk

minaahad@aol.com 0049-177 569 2413

Statement in Italian

Il Manifesto dell’azione di protesta del 28 Agosto 2010 organizzata da 100 Cities Around the World Against Stoning

(100 Città del Mondo Contro la Lapidazione)

Il giorno 28 Agosto 2010 cento città in varie parti del mondo leveranno la loro protesta contro la pratica barbara della lapidazione, nella speranza di salvare anche la vita di Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran.

Questo giorno passerà agli annali dell’umanità come una grande manifestazione della protesta, che si protrae da settimane, di milioni di persone in tutto il globo contro la lapidazione, ritenuta la più abominevole forma di crudeltà medioevale.

E’ una vergogna per l’intera umanità che, al finire della prima decade del ventunesimo secolo, la lapidazione sia tuttora praticata in Iran e e in altri Paesi di regime islamico.

Noi, i cittadini delle 100 città, qui intendiamo inequivocabilmente dichiarare la necessità che questa macchia vada cancellata dalla faccia dell’umanità immediatamente e in modo definitivo.

In questo giorno la nostra protesta è anche volta contro il regime che ha reintrodotto la lapidazione in Iran e che, durante i suoi 31 anni di governo si è reso colpevole di genocidio, ha introdotto una sorta di apartheid sessuale e ha fatto sì che carcerazioni, esecuzioni, torture e stupri a danni dei prigionieri politici fossero legge.

Un tale regime non può essere rappresentativo della popolazione iraniana. E’ un governo carnefice e i suoi leader devono essere processati davanti a un tribunale internazionale per i loro crimini contro l’umanità.

Inoltre, la protesta internazionale del 28 Agosto vuole anche essere una manifestazione della solidarietà delle persone di tutto il mondo nei confronti della popolazione iraniana, che eroicamente ha tentato di far cessare il regime e con esso l’applicazione della Sharia, la legge Islamica che permette torture e esecuzioni.

Noi, i cittadini di 100 città nel mondo, ci dichiarano orgogliosi di rappresentare universalmente l’umanità contro la barbarie.

Noi sosteniamo la battaglia della popolazione Iraniana contro uno dei più crudeli regimi della storia dell’umanità.

Noi, di conseguenza, dichiariamo categoricamente, a nome di tutto il mondo civile, che la strada della liberazione della popolazione iraniana non deve passare attraverso azioni militari contro il paese, ma attraverso la deposizione dell’attuale governo della Repubblica Islamica per mezzo del potere della lotta delle persone in Iran e in tutto il mondo.

I seguenti punti sono le richieste di 100 cities of the world nel giorno 28 Agosto 2010.

1 – L’immediata e incondizionata liberazione di Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani e di tutti i prigionieri condannati alla lapidazione in Iran.

2 – L’abolizione della pratica della lapidazione, in Iran e negli altri Paesi che la praticano.Chiediamo che che le Nazioni Unite si adoperino con urgenza per proibire la lapidazione, in quanto punizione inumana, in tutto il mondo.

3 – Non riconoscendo l’attuale regime come il legittimo governo del Paese, chiediamo che la sua partecipazione agli organi internazionali sia interdetta.

4 – Chiediamo che coloro che si sono resi responsabili della pratica della lapidazione vengano processati. La lapidazione è una delle più abominevoli forme di crimine contro l’umanità.Qualsiasi individuo, gruppo, organizzazione o stato che esegua la pratica della lapidazione deve essere perseguito e processato da un tribunale internazionale.

Noi continueremo la nostra battaglia fino a che non avremo ottenuto tutto quanto richiesto.Come primo passo nell’immediato ci concentriamo sull’importanza di impedire che il presidente dell’ Iran, Mahmood Ahmadinejadentri a far parte dell’ Assemblea Generale della Nazioni Unite nel Settembre 2010.

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La Declaración de la Acción de Protesta del 28 de Agosto por 100 Ciudades Alrededor del Mundo en Contra del Apedreamiento

El 28 de agosto cien ciudades alrededor del mundo se están levantando para protestar en contra de la bárbara práctica del apedreamiento, así como  para salvar la vida deSakineh Mohammadi en Irán. Este día se grabará en los registros de la humanidad como una manifestación de la  de la protestación  durante las semanas anteriores, por millones de gente a través del planeta  contra del apedreamiento como la forma más depravada de la crueldad medieval. Es una desgracia a la humanidad que, al final de la primera década del siglo veitnuno, apedreadmienot todavía se practica en el Irán y otros países afligidos por el Islamismo. Nosotros, los ciudadanos de cien ciudades, ahora mismo firmemente declaramos que esta mancha tiene que removerse de la cara de la humanidad, inmediata y permenantemente.

Hoy mismo también protestamos contra del regimen del apedreamiento en Irán. Este regimen durante los 31 años de su existencia, comitió el genocidio, estableció un sistema de apartheid  sexual en Irán  e hizo encarcelamiento, , ejecución, tortura, violación de presos y la regia del sharia como  la ley pre medieval de la tierra. Tal régimen no es representante del pueblo Iraní. Es su asesino, y sus líderes deben traerse a los  tribunales internaciónales  por sus crímenes contra de la humanidad.

Además, la protesta internacional del 28 de agosto no es sino otra manifestación de la solidaridad de la gente alrededor del mundo con la gente del Irán, que se han levantado heroicamente para eliminar el regimen del apedreamiento, el código del castigo islámico(Qesaas), hijab, tortura y ejecución. Nosotros, los ciudadanos de cien ciudades por todo el mundo, orgullosamente declaramos que nos consideramos los cargadores de la bandera de la frente universal de la humanidad  en contra del barbarismo. Soportamos las luchas de la gente iraní en contra de unos de los regimens más crueles  en la historia de la humanidad. Enfaticamente declaramos, en nombre de la humanidad civilizada , que el camino a la liberación de la gente Iraní no ocurrirá por amenazas  ni acción militar en contra del país sino por el poder de las luchas de la gente en Irán y por todo el mundo.

Las siguientes son nuestras demandas communes el 28 de agosto, 2010 desde. todas las ciudades del mundo:

1) La libertad inmediata e incondicional de Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani y todos los otro presos sentenciados al apedreamiento hasta la muerte.

2) La abolición del apedreamiento en Irán y en otras partes. Exigimos que las Naciones Unidas adopten urgentemente una resolución específica que  prohiba el apedreamiento com un castigo inhumano por todo el mundo.

3) El que no se reconozca “la lapidación” en El Régimen Islámico de Irán, y así prohibiéndolos de todos los Cuerpos Internacionales, incluyendo pero no limitado a Las Naciones Unidas.

4) Llevar a juicio todos los partícipes de “lapidaciones”.  La “lapidación” es uno de los crímenes más abominables en contra de la raza humana.  Por lo tanto, cualquier individuo, grupo, organización o estado  usando la “lapidación” como castigo, debe ser procesado y juzgado por un Tribunal Internacional.

Continuamos con nuestra lucha hasta que hayamos alcanzado todas estas demandas. Como medida inmediata, primaria con este fin, pedimos que Mahmud Ahmadinejad, el presidente del régimen de lapidación, se impidió entrar en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en septiembre 2010.

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Below a video of the Munich demonstrations

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