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DESCRIPTION:Stop Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran    Join Iranian Americans to 
 protest the coming execution of political dissident Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi 
 and call for the release of all Political Prisoners in Iran.   Candlelight 
 Vigil to support and remember political prisoners in Iran   Come under the 
 banner of “No War-No Theocracy, Support Iranian Resistance”   Saturday 
 April 15th 6-9 pm  Downtown San Francisco at Union Square  The Iranian 
 regime has an atrocious record on human rights, women’s rights, and 
 treatment of political prisons. Amnesty International states “Scores of 
 political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, were arrested. 
 Others continued to be held in prolonged detention without trial or were 
 serving prison sentences imposed after unfair trials. Some had no access to 
 lawyers or family. Freedom of expression and association continued to be 
 restricted by the judiciary, and scores of students, journalists and 
 intellectuals were detained. At least 113 people, including long-term 
 political prisoners, were executed, frequently in public and some by 
 stoning, and 84 were flogged, many in public.”1    In 1988 the Iranian 
 regime engaged in a movement to “cleanse” the country of all political 
 dissent, massacring tens of thousands of political prisoners summarily and 
 without due process or even proper notification of family members.  This 
 tragedy went largely unnoticed in the international community and we are 
 still working to raise awareness and remember those who lost their lives. 
 Currently the Iranian regime has maintained its abysmal treatment of 
 political prisoners, brutal torture methods, and barbaric public executions 
 that has included minors and mentally disabled people.  It has used 
 homosexuality, deviance from “Islamic chastity” and adultery as basis 
 for execution. The Iranian regime has also begun to actively execute 
 political prisoners within Iran.   The IACNC calls for the immediate action 
 to stop the execution of Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi. 2 The Iranian regime has 
 informed Mr. Feiz-Mahdavi he will be hanged on May 6th. Valiollah 
 Feiz-Mahdavi, 28 was arrested in 2001 and subsequently sentenced to death. 
 Following the execution of PMOI member Hojjat Zamani on February 7, the 
 regime announced on March 20 that it would carry out the execution of Mr. 
 Feiz-Mahdavi.    We call on international organizations and authorities, 
 especially the United Nations Council of Human Rights and the High 
 Commissioner for Human Rights, to take urgent action to stop the execution 
 of Mr. Feiz-Mahdavi.  We also urge the dispatch of a fact-finding mission 
 to Iran to investigate the dreadful situation of Iranian political 
 prisoners. Silence and inaction by the international community along with 
 the growing desperation of the Iranian regime to retain power and suppress 
 dissent within Iran has lead to the execution of political prisoners 
 affiliated with the PMOI and other political groups resisting within Iran. 
 The Iranian community in exile and the world community must stand together 
 to stop these executions and prevent another massacre from occurring within 
 Iranian prisons as this regime exits.   The Iranian American Community 
 demands:      * The Immediate release of all Political Prisoners      * 
 Stop torture, stoning and execution the execution within Iran      * No War 
 against Iran      * No to Nuclear weapons in Iran      * No Support of the 
 theocratic government in Iran  We support: All Political Prisoners, the 
 student movement, the organized Iranian resistance, striking workers, 
 women’s rights, and all those who are fighting the Iranian regime.   
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   http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/irn-summary-eng  2 
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SUMMARY: No War No Theocracy in Iran -Candle light Vigil for Political Prisoners of Iran
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