{"id":35211,"date":"2022-07-19T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=35211"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T09:30:50","slug":"global-solidarity-with-the-free-iran-world-summit-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/news\/2022\/07\/global-solidarity-with-the-free-iran-world-summit-2022\/35211\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Solidarity With the Free Iran World Summit 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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More than 100 parliamentary committees of Friends of Free Iran and organizations, unions, syndicates, associations, and prominent political, legal, and religious figures from 5 continents announced their solidarity with the Free Iran World Summit 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text of this statement and the names of committees, associations, and personalities are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 40 years the Iranian people have been held hostage by an extremist regime which has destroyed Iran\u2019s natural resources, its social fabric, rich culture, temperate environment, and its economic potential. It has suppressed dissent and responded to their protests with state-sanctioned violence, imprisonment, torture, and executions. The regime holds the world record for executions, particularly of women and youth.
The current president of the regime, Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, is one of the main perpetrators of the 1988 massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners. Hundreds of current and former UN officials, legal and human rights experts and international NGOs have written an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council calling for an international investigation into the 1988 massacre<\/a>.
Since 2018, eight major protests for democratic change in Iran have been brutally suppressed (Amnesty International Report, 2021). In November 2019, more than 1,500 protesters, mostly young men, and women, were shot dead in the streets.
The Iranian people, especially the younger generation, are fighting for freedom. They have been deprived of their fundamental freedoms, for which reason they rejected monarchic dictatorship and are opposing religious tyranny. Iran is on the verge of a major change. After 100 years of struggle against dictatorship, the Iranian people want a free, democratic Iran, a Republic based on free elections and the rejection of any dictatorship.
Every year, tens of thousands of Iranians and hundreds of international personalities from all over the world gather to be the voice of a nation that is resisting. The participants condemn the religious dictatorship and express their support for a free Iran and the opposition\u2019s 10-point program for a secular, non-nuclear republic, gender equality, end to discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities, and respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international conventions on political freedom.
The Global Summit for a Free Iran will be held this year on 23 July 2022.
The Iranian people have the right to resist the regime for freedom. We call on our governments to stand with the Iranian people and their resistance, on the right side of history, and to recognize their right to freedom. (A 2 MN clip on 40 years tyranny in Iran and the Global Summit)
We express our solidarity with the Global Summit for a Free Iran and its democratic goals.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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