Rally in Support of Democracy & Human Rights in Iran August 16, 2009

International pressures along with pressures from human rights and civic groups from within Iran have forced Ahmadinejad’s government to admit the death of 69 Iranians: peaceful protesters and activists of non-violent civil rights movement. Yet, both international and domestic human rights groups in Iran have listed with name, age, date, place and circumstance of death a much larger number of such killings in Iran, some shot or beaten to death while protesting in streets and more than half killed while incarcerated after having been subjected to severe, medieval physical and psychological torture.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d5a96764-868a-11de-9e8e-00144feabdc0.html

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran

Ahmadinejad’s government has also admitted the arrest of 4000 Iranians during the first few days of the peaceful protests in Tehran and claims 3700 of these have been release but still the fate of many “disappeared” persons per reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jGD0q7AtcTz7aNtTBlBqv8IdpQaQ

http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/iran

We gather once again to do so to object to flagrant violation of human rights as well as infringement and negation of all civil rights and will continue to do so until the Iranian regime complies with international norms, laws and standards including those of human rights, Geneva Convention, women and children rights, labor laws as well as those governing diplomatic and international relations.

برای دفاع از مردم کشورمان، برای اعتراض به کشتار و سرکوب ها، برای دفاع از حق بيان و حقوق شهروندی، ما نيز بايد در اين کارزار، مخالفت خود را با آن چه که بر مردم ايران می رود اعلام کنيم ما، گروهی ازافراد مستقل با نقطه نظرات گوناگون، از همه هموطنان دعوت می کنيم که در راهپیمایی اعتراضی ما مشترک فعالانه شرکت کنند تا بتوانيم همبستگی خود را با مردم کشورمان اعلام کرده و تا حد توان خود فرياد اعتراضمان به سرکوب مردم ايران را بازتاب دهيم