Approval of the statement “Freedom and Democracy for Iran”And support for the Iranians Grand gathering on June 30th
By the Italian municipalities
June 2018
The “Freedom and Democracy for Iran” statement was approved by the municipalities of Rivoli, Cavagnolo, Fossano and the Union of Mayors of Pinerolese, with a majority vote of members and turned into law.
The statement read of Cavagnolo
The statement read of Pinerolese
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For almost four decades the theocratic dictatorship in Iran has oppressed the Iranian people and for this has been repeatedly condemned by the UN and various organizations tasked to defend human rights.
In recent years, Iranians have suffered from the most vicious forms of repression, censorship, and continuous violation of human rights such as public hangings, group executions, torture and sexual abuses of political prisoners, stoning to death, amputation of limbs, arbitrary arrests, and denial of fundamental freedoms.
Over 120,000 dissidents and activists for the democracy and human rights have been executed and their family members have been the subject to arbitrary arrests, atrocious torture and, in some cases, execution.
In the summer of 1988 the Iranian regime extra-judicially executed more than 30,000 political prisoners – mostly members and supporters of the opposition movement the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in prisons across the country – on the basis of a religious decree (fatwa) issued by the then-supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
Amnesty International has called this mass execution a “crime against humanity” and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
According to the UN report, Iran has first place for the number of hangings per capita.
Nevertheless, despite such suppression, the world witnessed waves of protests and demonstrations of the Iranian people breaking out through January 2018 that quickly spread in over 140 cities. The theocratic regime immediately mobilized an extensive suppression to prevent the popular uprising. The statistics are horrifying: hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests and injuries. Many detainees underwent vicious tortures and a number of them have been executed recently and many are awaiting execution.
The Iranian people have shown the world that they are prepared, along with their organized resistance, to pay the price a democratic change with the dictatorial regime and to establish a secular government.
Expressing our solidarity with the Iranian people’s uprising for freedom and democracy, we declare our support for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) for a democratic change in Iran. We demand that the international community make any relations with the Iranian regime contingent to respect of human rights, and demand the release of all political prisoners loudly.
We also express our solidarity with the annual Grand Gathering of the Iranians in Paris on June 30, in support of the demands of the uprising of the Iranian people for a free and democratic Iran.
We also support the 10-point plan of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the NCRI, for a democratic republic in Iran based on the separation of religion and state, gender equality, ethnic and religion equality, no to nuclear program, abolition of death penalty, peaceful coexistence, and with respect to international laws and conventions, for the guarantee of democracy, development and progress of Iran.
The time has come for the international community to get on the correct side of history.
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