{"id":214785,"date":"2020-03-25T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=214785"},"modified":"2023-01-23T07:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T06:07:28","slug":"canadian-friends-of-a-democratic-iran-voice-support-of-iranian-prisoners-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/canadian-friends-of-a-democratic-iran-voice-support-of-iranian-prisoners-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran, Voice Support of Iranian Prisoners Amid Coronavirus Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_214786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214786\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman\" class=\"wp-image-214786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman.jpg\" alt=\"The letter of the Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran to Javaid Rehman\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman-696x396.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-leter-of-the-Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-to-Javaid-Rehman-739x420.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The letter of the Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran to Javaid Rehman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran in a letter to Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, expressed concern over the plight of Iranian political prisoners during COVID-19, because of the regime\u2019s inaction and cover-up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The full text of the statement is below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-214788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran\" width=\"800\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-768x184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Canadian-Friends-of-a-Democratic-Iran-696x167.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>March 20, 2020<\/p>\n<p>URGENT<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Javaid Rehman,<\/p>\n<p>Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran<\/p>\n<p>Geneva, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Rehman<\/p>\n<p>Re: Urgent plight of Iranian political prisoners during COVID-19<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has already caused a major catastrophe globally.<\/p>\n<p>Among its related events, the mistruths, cover-ups and disinformation, coupled\u00a0with total disregard for human lives and the incompetence of Iranian regime\u00a0leaders, have caused an exponential growth of the virus inside Iran. This has led\u00a0reportedly to more than 6400 deaths across the country so far. The WHO team,\u00a0which arrived in Tehran to assess the situation, confirmed that the scale of the\u00a0human losses is under-reported by officials.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most vulnerable communities poised to contract the virus are\u00a0prisoners, who did not have adequate access to health care even without the\u00a0pandemic. The Great Tehran Prison (Fashafouyeh) is a prime example: scores of\u00a0political prisoners are held there, as you know, and despite the regime\u2019s gesture\u00a0to release some prisoners, I understand that none of these political prisoners was\u00a0released. In a statement released a few days ago, more than 40 political prisoners\u00a0in that prison said they would begin a hunger strike to demand that their\u00a0situation be raised. Most of them were arrested in the November 2019 uprising,\u00a0when more than 1500 people were brutally killed by security forces and the<\/p>\n<p>IRGC, including at least 23 children according to Amnesty International.\u00a0In their statement, the political prisoners said that some inmates have already\u00a0died due to the virus; the refusal of the authorities to grant them release, they\u00a0noted, amounts to another crime against humanity that has rendered them\u00a0\u201cburied alive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We Canadians have numerous unresolved cases against the current regime in\u00a0Iran, including its refusal to hand over the black boxes of Ukrainian Airlines\u00a0flight 752, in which at least 57 Canadian citizens died on Jan. 8th as a result of its military shooting down a passenger aircraft with two missiles. We believe the spread of COVID-19 in Iran\u2019s prisons against defenseless, unprotected and vulnerable political prisoners is already a disaster with generational consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In the circumstances, we urge you to press as hard as you can to ensure that\u00a0political prisoners, who were already suffering a huge injustice for seeking justice\u00a0and human dignity for all Iranians, are released and safeguarded from this\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"David-Kilgour-signature\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-214787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/David-Kilgour-signature.jpg\" alt=\"David-Kilgour-signature\" width=\"339\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/David-Kilgour-signature.jpg 339w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/David-Kilgour-signature-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hon. David Kilgour, J.D.,<\/p>\n<p>Co-Chair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Francois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Antonio Gutterres, UN Secretary General<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health\u00a0Organization<\/p>\n<p>Email: CFDIran@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran in a letter to Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, expressed concern over the plight of Iranian political [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":214786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[186],"class_list":{"0":"post-214785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-a-world","8":"tag-coronavirus"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran, Voice Support of Iranian Prisoners Amid Coronavirus Outbreak - 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