{"id":48360,"date":"2023-07-27T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=48360"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:20:45","slug":"remarks-by-former-amnesty-international-sg-pierre-sane-to-the-free-iran-world-summit-2023-on-july-3-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/1988-massacre\/2023\/07\/remarks-by-former-amnesty-international-sg-pierre-sane-to-the-free-iran-world-summit-2023-on-july-3-2023\/48360\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Former Amnesty International SG Pierre San\u00e9, to the Free Iran World Summit 2023, on July 3, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pierre San\u00e9 (Senegal), Secretary General of Amnesty International (1992-2001)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pierre San\u00e9 (Senegal), Secretary General of Amnesty International (1992-2001), addressed the third day<\/a> of the Free Iran World Summit on July 3, 2023. The summit was under the title: Prosecute Iran\u2019s Regime Leaders for Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre San\u00e9: When Resistance Is Based on Justice, Freedom and Equality, It Will Win<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The script of the full speech of Mr. Pierre San\u00e9 follows:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good afternoon, everybody. Dear friends, dear participants, dear former colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biographies are about the past. But my biography, the Future, is actually being written by my daughter, who is a human rights defender and who is an attorney in law. She was invited by a conference in December 2016 to give an address on the massacre of 1988, impunity, and the need for accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, she is working in Kyiv in the office of the prosecutor going after war crimes being committed, I hope, on all sides. She is also a lawyer working with the refugee camps in Bangladesh with the Rohingya refugees trying to secure judicial assistance for some of the refugees. And last week, she was in the Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, therefore, my biography is just starting now with my daughter, and hopefully, we will continue to breed a very dynamic human rights family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights are in crisis again. In the 1990s, when I was at Amnesty International, we thought we were living through the worst times in human rights. We had the genocide in Serbia. We had a genocide in Rwanda, endless wars in Africa, ending with the invasion of Iraq, followed by decades of war on terror with all the violations of human rights that those conflicts generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it seems that that past was not that terrible when we confront what is being developing since the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine. But throughout all those events, upheavals, and gross violations of human rights, it seems that Iran continued to remain the graveyard of human rights, the graveyard where human rights violations are taking place, almost amidst the indifference of the international community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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