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DESCRIPTION:Join the vigil co-sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Society of San 
 Francisco Human Rights Working Group and International Emergency Campaign 
 to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now (IEC). Our vigil aims to stand 
 with people in Iran and worldwide to join or share support for these heroic 
 prisoners.\n\n• Last year, the Islamic Republic of Iran executed more 
 than 900 people; it has already hanged at least 74 in 2025, and has 
 sentenced at least 54 more political prisoners to death, among them two 
 Kurdish women activists, Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi.\n• This 
 marks the 1-year anniversary of a weekly hunger strike by prisoners across 
 Iran demanding STOP THE EXECUTIONS. Despite retaliation, “No to Execution 
 Tuesdays” continues to spread. Hundreds of prisoners in 34 prisons will 
 be joined by people in cities around the world holding actions that demand 
 an end to executions in Iran. \n\n“Be a link in the chain of free people 
 forged from resistance," quote from an appeal from Evin Prison by Golrokh 
 Iraee: \n“Until a moment ago, she was by your side. You would have been 
 drinking tea together and walking side by side in the dreary prison 
 evening. Then she is gone suddenly and forever, never to return. This is 
 the most bitter reality of prison. They come and snatch one of us, and kill 
 her. Sometimes they return her lifeless body to her family, sometimes 
 not... The anguish of prison is heightened and given new meaning when you 
 see your cellmate sent to the gallows...\nThis kind of suffering changes 
 you, it tears open your soul and toughens you, so nothing can make you 
 tired, nothing can slow you down. You are dissatisfied with anything less 
 than actual liberation. You become a link in what my comrades call the 
 chain of free people, the chain forged from the resistance of friends who 
 continued to cry out for liberation, despite the boots and blows of the 
 dictatorships of Shah and Sheikh [the Mullahs.”\n— (full letter posted 
 on the IEC website)\n\nMeanwhile, the U.S. imperialists –the same ones 
 who put the despot Shah of Iran in power in 1953 and, when he could no 
 longer control the people, helped bring in the mullahs – now, under the 
 fascist baton of Donald Trump, are warmongering and jockeying in the Middle 
 East (and the world) even more aggressively than ever. That’s why the 
 demands of the IEC are timelier and more urgent than ever. \n\nWe demand of 
 the \nIslamic Republic of Iran: FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW!\nWe say 
 to the U.S government: NO THREATS OR WAR MOVES AGAINST IRAN, LIFT U.S. 
 SANCTIONS!\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/01/25/18872606.php
SUMMARY:Vigil to Stop the Executions in Iran -- Stand with Courageous Political Prisoners
LOCATION:1187 Franklin St, San Francisco\nin front of the UUSF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/01/25/18872606.php
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