Foruhar petition drive
Petition drive by the Iran National Front, USA, in coordination with
Iranian Human Rights Working Group and Democratic Network of Iran
To: The Honorable Mary Robinson
United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
We are outraged to learn of the brutal and gruesome killing of two prominent
opposition leaders in Iran, Mr. Dariush Forouhar and Mrs. Parvaneh Eskandari-Forouhar
on Sunday, November22, 1998.
We are sending this fax/e-mail to you to ask for your expression of
condemnation and outrage against this extra-judicial execution. We are
also very concerned about the safety and security of other opposition members
in Iran, including Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam who remains in jail.
For your information, Mr. and Mrs. Forouhar were found stabbed to death
in their home in Tehran on November 22, 1998. Both of their bodies were
mutilated. The similarity of this gruesome crime and the past assassinations
of other IRI's critics and opponents, both inside and outside Iran, are
horrifying and deserves the most urgent attention by international HR organizations.
Mr. and Mrs. Forouhar had recently called for a boycott of the elections
of the Council of Experts. Also, a few months ago, Iran revolutionary commander,
Rahim Safavi, had vowed to "behead" and "cut the tongues"
of the opponents of the regime.
We the undersigned would like to ask you to send a fact-finding mission
to Iran to investigate the killing of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar.
We believe this matter should be investigated in the context of illegal
activities of the "pressure groups", the "information ministry"
and the "revolutionary guards" and other governmental organizations
that might have links with the semi-legal, semi-governmental "pressure
groups".
Please sign by filling this form and sending an e-mail to kpgbt@aol.com
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