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Please take a moment to sign the petition calling for Kian’s release. If you choose to share your email address, the Free Kian campaign will send you further updates on Kian’s case and information about how to help.

This petition will be sent to:

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• M. Javad Zarif, Head of the Iranian Mission to United Nations

We the undersigned call for the immediate release of Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh, who is being deained in Evin Prison in Iran.

Dr. Tajbakhsh is an internationally-respected scholar, and has used his expertise in the areas of local government reform, urban planning and social policy in service of the Iranian people. His work has sought to foster cultural and academic exchange between the people of Iran and the international community. His detention is a mistake.

We urgently ask the Iranian government to release Dr. Tajbakhsh and ensure his safe return to his family.

Sign petition here: http://www.freekian.org/petition/

For more information visit : Free Kian Website  and Human Rights Watch

“My dad says that childhood is the happiest time of my life. But, I think he’s wrong. I think my mom’s right. She says that childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. ”

From the movie Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock 

Tehran- Allmeh University- May 22, 2007 

Pro-democracy students clash with Basiji’s (pro-Islamic Regime paramilitary forces) in this video which was smuggled out of Allameh University, Tehran, College of Social Sciences.

Eventually about five men wearin white shirts (Basij trademark) took one of their injureds downstairs. The voice of women as it has been teh case often is louder than men.

” When a 16 year old child commits a crime, they issue the death sentence. They keep the child until s/he is over 18 and then proceed with the execution. In reality this is a multiple torture. Assume being someone who everyday has to turn the pages of the calendar to see when you are 18 years old to be killed. This multiple torture that is committed by Government of Iran in reality is an extreme and repeated violation of human rights”

Shirin Ebadi - March 2007 interview with Radio Deutsche Welle

Last week Nazanin Afshin-Jam and the Iranian Nobel Prize Laureate 2003, Shirin Ebadi participated in a panel discussion on women and human rights in the Middle East at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

At this meeting, Ms. Ebadi recognized the work and dedication of Nazanin Afshin-Jam and the Stop Child Executions campaign and extended her support by signing the petition to put a permanent end to executions of minors in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children’s Rights Support Association in Iran. Ms. ebadi also is also one of the initiaters of the One Million Signature Campaign in Iran which has a goal of equal rights for Iranian women. Nazanin Afshin-Jam SCE Campaign thank Ms. Ebadi for her support of the campaign to Stop Child Executions in Iran.

Its on DVD (LORD OF WAR)

Dear leaders, did you enjoy seeing the bloody face of that woman in Tehran? She is probably mother of a child or will be a mother someday.

Did you enjoy seeing the swollen body of that 20 year old youth that the your police was standing next to with electric batons?

Did you enjoy seeing the shaking legs of the young girl who was being taken away for having her scarf slightly pulled back ?

Dear leaders, did you enjoy seeing the pale face of the mother who was begging you not to take away his son? Did you enjoy when your men attacked their home?

You should start a class for the other police in the world of how to treat the people the they are supposed to protect.

Dear leaders, thank you for beating us up so that we learn to comply. Thank you for attacking our homes and demoralizing us so that we learn how to behave. Thank you for calling us infected with “plague”.

Before ending this thank you letter, we should take this opportunity to also thank God that Islam is still alive and you are its guardians. We should thank God that you are watching over the people of country not to sin. 

 Dear leaders , beware of the “plague” as it is a nasty decease and you will catch it too…  

 Based on an article written in Iran

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