USRHR letter to 53 Foreign Ministers about Narges Mohammadi
May 31, 2021
Honorable Foreign Ministers,
We are writing to you seeking your help for a longtime human rights defender in Iran, Narges Mohammadi.
Narges Mohammadi is Deputy Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC). She was elected as President of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Peace in Iran, a broad coalition against war and for the promotion of human rights. She has campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran, and was awarded the Per Anger Prize by the Swedish government for her human rights work in 2011.
On 8 October 2020, in the early hours of the morning, Narges Mohammadi was released from Zanjan prison after being tested positive with COVID19.
In May 2021, according to her husband, Taghi Rahmani who is in exile along with their two kids An Iranian Revolutionary court sentenced her to 80 lashes, two and a half years in prison and a fine, less than a year after she was released from prison.
Two members of the Swedish Parliament recently nominated her for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
Honorable Foreign Ministers,
We urge the honorable ministers to take her case in a form of joint statement to demand the Islamic Republic of Iran rescind all charges against her and to allow her to visit her husband and kids who live in France. Additionally we ask in all your future conversations with your counterpart in Iran to bring up her case as well as others in prison for defending human rights for the People of Iran.
She needs our support.
With respect,
The Union for Secular Republic and Human Rights in Iran
