Please join us in our protest against this injustice!
Honorable and Freedom-loving People of Iran!
International human rights organizations, political and civil rights
activists!
Please join us in our protest against this injustice!
Following the protest of Mothers of Laaleh Park (Mourning Mothers of
Iran)to 33 years of killings and crimes committed by Islamic Republic,
and their show of sympathy with Grieving Mothers, pressures, threats,
detentions, and heavy handed prison sentences continue. By continually
handing prison sentences for Mothers of Laaleh Park, the Islamic
Republic is clearly demonstrating its high level of violation of human
rights, and its disregard for freedom and justice. Not yet through
with the news of prison sentences for Jila Karmzadeh Makvandi, Leila
Seyfollahi, Nader Ahsani, Omolbanain Ebrahimi, Jila Mahdavian, Maryam
Najafi, and Mansoureh Behkish, we have received news that prison
sentences have also been ordered for three other individuals by the
names of Hakimeh Shokri, Neda Mostaghimi, and Mr. Ramezani (the father
of Ramin Ramezani, killed on the street in 2009), as well as another
individual by the name of Seyed Mohammad Ebrahimi, charged with helping
Mothers of Laaleh Park.
Prison sentences for Jila Karamzadeh Makvandi, Leila Seyfolahi, and
Nader Ahsani have been affirmed in the Appeals Court and Jila Karmzadeh
has been detained as of Dec 27, 2011. The sentences for other mothers
from Mothers of Laaleh Park are in preliminary stages.
We, Mothers of Laaleh Park are extremely concerned about the present
situation. How far these injustices can go on and we remain silent?
Every day we witness that the pressure on these mothers and the families
of the martyrs and their supporters become more and more difficult to
the point that even sympathizing with the mothers and the grieving
families is considered a crime. We want to know:
Why is it a crime to protest against human rights violations?
Why in our country, Iran, people do not have the right to freedom of
speech and thought?
Why is it considered a crime to show sympathy with hurt and grieving
human beings?
Why is it that even attorneys are deprived of defending their own
clients and are, themselves, viewed as criminals?
We, the Mothers of Laaleh Park, continue to assert our three fundamental
and everlasting demands:
The abolition of death penalty, the release of all political-ideological
prisoners, the prosecution of the instigators and agents involved in
all the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic. We are asking for
the immediate and unconditional release of Jila Karamzadeh Makvandi,
and for the annulment of all the court orders issued for the Mothers of
Laaleh Park.
We appeal to all the freedom loving, justice seeking, and honorable
people of Iran and across the world, the international organizations
for human rights, and activists for civil and political rights to show
serious objections to these unjust and anti-human rulings by writing
letters and by spreading the word about these injustices.
Mothers of Laaleh Park
May 16, 2012
