IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD
• According to Amnesty International report in March 2004,
Iranian government became second in the world execution.
• 120,000 executions on political grounds; victims include
pregnant women, elderly women and schoolchildren
• 30,000 political prisoners
massacred in 1988
• Over 170 forms of physical
and psychological torture
• 800,000 persons admitted
to jails every year
• Stoning, hanging in public,
eye gouging, amputation of fingers, hands and legs, beheading,
and flogging in public carried out as "punishment"
• Suppression of religious
and ethnic minorities
• 450 terrorist operations
around the world, including bombings, hijacking, abductions and
assassinations
• 474 public executions
have been announced in 2002; a 50% rise compared with the previous
year
• 91 newspapers and periodicals
have been closed down by the regime since April 2000. Dozens of
journalists remain in jail. Rapporteurs Sans Frontieres called
Iran "the biggest prison for journalists".
• 1,500 Iranians leave the
country every day, fleeing the mullahs’ repression
Urgent
Action
To
save the lives of residents of Camp Ashraf.
Residents of Ashraf are protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention
and international law. They have lived in Iraq for 20 years as
political refugees. The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I),
the Iraqi government and all relevant international organizations
should respect the protections granted to Ashraf residents by
their status as protected persons. The residents of Ashraf City
advocate a free, secular and democratic Iran in which there is
a separation of Church and State, and in which the rights of all
citizens are safeguarded regardless of their gender, ethnic background,
religious or political beliefs.
Invitation
Australian delegation reports on
Visit to
Ashraf City, Iraq
Thursday, June 12, 2008, from 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Waratah Room, NSW Parliament House
Invited to speak in response to the delegation:
Dr Meredith Burgmann
MC: Ms Penny Sharpe MLC
Dear
Friends,
This is the first time that an Australian group has visited the
Iranian refugees based at Ashraf City, Iraq. The delegation made
the trip from May 9-17.
The delegation was given a wonderful greeting, and was able to
meet with and speak, at length, to the leaders and members of
the PMOI and the disarmed National Liberation Army of Iran, at
Ashraf.
They were also able to meet an assembly of 300 Iraqi Sheiks, from
all ethnic groups and religions in Iraq, and a delegation of 100
Iraqi women leaders.
We hope that this delegation’s journey is able to make a
psychological and political breakthrough and that later this year
another Australian delegation, including elected representatives,
can make this journey, and assist the Australian government to
understand and support the democratic movement of the Iranian
people.
Please accept our invitation to this important forum to learn
about the PMOI, to learn about how they see the situation in their
country and also the situation of Iraq today.
For more information
Contact Mohammed at 0415
536 443
Supported by: Australian Supporters of Democracy in Iran, PO Box
73, Mortdale NSW 2223
Hosted by Ms Penny Sharpe MLC.
RSVP: (02) 9230 2741 penny.sharpe@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Association
to Defend Freedom & Human Rights in Iran- Australia is an
independent, non-profit, and non-governmental organization without
any political affiliations focusing on the Rights of the Iranian
refugees who were the victims of the most horrific executions
and torture. We facilitate the means by which Iranian refugees
in the Australia particularly women and children can attain an
appropriate standard of living through the proper provisions of
nutrition, health, education, support, and protection.
WHAT
WE DO
OUR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
We
try to help the victims of fundamentalism, who have fled their
homeland for fear of persecution, torture and execution, by looking
after their welfare. We also help these victims adapt to better
lives in the Australia. Some of our most important goals are:
1.
To support Iranians who have fled their homeland for fear of persecution,
or who have been subject to the Iranian regime's brutal tortures
and imprisonment.
2. To provide education and services and commodities for such
victims of oppression.
3. To voice the cries of the Iranian people who are subjected
daily to the mullahs' crimes.
4. To counsel the bereaved torture victims of the Iranian regime
to regain control over their lives and be able to live like ordinary
free people.
OUR ACTIVITIES
We provide assistance on legal matters for the victims of fundamentalism.
We endeavour to educate and help them to achieve a degree. We
put on many social and cultural activities locally. We also arrange
language and computer classes.
