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In a powerful joint article published in Lib\u00e9ration<\/a>, L\u2019Humanit\u00e9<\/a><\/em>*, and on the French Human Rights League\u2019s website<\/a>, a group of prominent French lawyers and human rights defenders has called for international relations with Iran to be contingent on a moratorium on executions. The article, written in response to the rising number of political executions in Iran, was co-authored by leading figures including Dominique Attias, President of the European Bar Foundation; Patrick Baudouin, Honorary President of the French Human Rights League; William Bourdon, Lawyer and Founder of the Sherpa Association; Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Legaret, President of the Foundation for Middle East Studies (Femo); Jean-Pierre Mignard, Lawyer and essayist; and Gilbert Mitterrand, President of the Danielle-Mitterrand Foundation France-Libert\u00e9s.<\/p>\n The article follows recent death sentences handed down by the Iranian judiciary against three political prisoners: Behrouz Ehsani, Mehdi Hassani, and Mohammad Javad Vafa\u2019i Thani<\/a>. These men were condemned to death for their participation in anti-government protests and alleged connections to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>). The lawyers and activists voiced deep concern over the apparent lack of response from the French government and urged immediate international intervention to stop the executions.<\/p>\n The article also highlights the rise of a movement inside Iran known as \u201cNo Execution Tuesdays<\/a>,\u201d in which prisoners across the country protest the death penalty by going on hunger strikes every Tuesday. This movement is a symbol of growing resistance to the Iranian regime\u2019s repressive tactics.<\/p>\n The authors warn that the silence of Western governments and media, particularly in France, amounts to complicity in the ongoing atrocities. \u201cThree more people have been sentenced to death in Iran, but this has gone unreported by our media. Have we become indifferent to the horrors unfolding around us?\u201d they ask.<\/p>\n Trois nouveaux condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 mort en Iran : la\u00a0France doit sortir du silence https:\/\/t.co\/v4dtgZ0R4W<\/a> \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n \u2014 Jean-Pierre Mignard (@jpmignard) October 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n