{"id":9029,"date":"2010-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/9029-rally-in-paris-in-protest-to-death-sentences-against-political-prisoners"},"modified":"2020-01-09T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:41:10","slug":"rally-in-paris-in-protest-to-death-sentences-against-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/rally-in-paris-in-protest-to-death-sentences-against-political-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally in Paris in protest to death sentences against political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">On the occasion of World Day against the Death Penalty<br \/><strong>Rally in Paris in protest to death sentences against political prisoners; \u200e<br \/>Call on EU to sanction perpetrators of execution and torture in Iran<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fr\/images\/stories\/200\/manif2010\/2\/paris-9octobre-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"  \" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">NCRI &#8211; On the occasion of World Day against the Death Penalty and in protest to death sentences \u200eagainst political prisoners as \u2018Mohareb\u2019 (enemy of God), a major rally and demonstration \u200ewas staged in Paris on Saturday, October 9. Participants called upon the European Union to \u200eimpose sanctions against Iranian regime\u2019s officials for their systematic violation of human \u200erights including suppression of dissidents and protesters. \u200e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">French personalities including Jean-Pierre\u200f \u200fBrard, Member of French National Assembly and \u200eco-president of Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic and Secular Iran, Jean-Pierre \u200eBequet, former MP and Mayor of Auvers-sur-Oise and founding member of the French \u200eCommittee for a Democratic Iran that includes dozens of prominent French figures, senators \u200eand MPs, voiced their support for the goals of rally. \u200e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">Several protesters in Iran have been sentenced to death over the past year on the charge of \u200e\u200e\u2018Moharebeh\u2019 (waging war against God). Majority of political prisoners sentenced to death \u200eare sympathizers of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) or relatives of \u200eResistance members in Camp Ashraf including Mrs. Farah (Almira) Vazehan and Messrs. Ali \u200eSaremi, Mohsen Daneshpour, Ahmad Daneshpour, Mohammad Haj Aghaei, Jafar Kazemi, \u200eJavad Lari, Abdolreza Ghanbari who are on death row.  One of the participants in the rally, \u200eMs. Homeira Vazehan, sister of Ms. Farah Vazehan, said her sister has been sentenced to \u200edeath on the charge of taking photos and films of demonstrations in Iran and sending them \u200eabroad. She called on international community to take effective measures to save the life of \u200eher sister and others on death row. \u200e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">Demonstrators carried pictures of individuals who have been sentenced to death recently for \u200etheir participation in last year uprisings. \u200e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">In their final declaration, demonstrators expressed support for the call by President-elect of \u200ethe Iranian Resistance Mrs. Maryam Rajavi to impose comprehensive sanctions against \u200eofficials of the Iranian regime plus those involved in the execution of 120,000 political \u200eprisoners, especially the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, and killing of \u200eprotesters in the past three decades. The declaration also calls on the European Union, \u200eespecially France, to impose sanctions on those responsible for torture and execution and \u200eguilty of brutal and systematic violation of human rights.\u200e<br \/>Participants welcomed recent decision by President of the United States to impose sanctions \u200eagainst eight top officials of the clerical regime involved in torture, execution and massacre \u200eof the Iranian people. They called on the United States and the United Nations Security \u200eCouncil to adopt more effective measures against all perpetrators of the criminal \u200esuppression of the Iranian people.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">Protesters called for an end to the arrest of relatives of Ashraf residents in Iran and a halt to \u200etheir death sentences. They also urged the United Nations and the United States government \u200eto continue with their obligations by ending the twenty-month-long blockade of Ashraf and \u200ethe round the clock psychological torture of Ashraf residents by agents dispatched by the \u200eclerical regime that has been going on for the past eight months at the entrance of Ashraf.\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383438;\">Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<br \/>October 9, 2010\u200e<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of World Day against the Death PenaltyRally in Paris in protest to death sentences against political prisoners; &lrm;Call on EU to sanction perpetrators of execution and torture [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-9029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-statement-human-rights","tag-updated"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rally in Paris in protest to death sentences against political prisoners - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On the occasion of World Day against the Death PenaltyRally in Paris in protest to death sentences against political prisoners; 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