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Statement in solidarity with the people of Iran in their struggle for democracy and freedom
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TO: All progressive and pro-human
rights individuals and organizations
The protest document that follows has been signed by a
number of people. The names of a selection are appended. We invite all those who
identify with this protest to add their names to the petition. You can do so on
the following websites:
www.iran-bulletin.org or
www.ipetitions.com/petition/iran-protest
The people of Iran who over the last few weeks have shown
enormous courage in heroically resisting the repressive measures unleashed on
them expect the widest support from all freedom-loving people the world over.
Editors: Middle East Left Forum - (formerly, Iran
Bulletin)
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Protest against
repressions in Iran
In
the last few weeks the world has witnessed extensive and savage suppression of
peaceful protests of hundreds of thousands of Iranian people triggered off by
the blatant theft of the June presidential elections.
The
religious despotism ruling the country has responded to the youth, students,
women, workers, ethnic minorities, as well as political and social activists,
lawyers, journalists, artists, and writers demonstrating in Tehran, Tabriz,
Isfahan, Shiraz, and hundreds of other cities and towns with bullets and batons.
Many have been killed, thousands injured and many thousands detained with some
under torture. Houses and shops were raided and cars smashed by police, para-military
Basij and revolutionary guards.
We the
undersigned express our unequivocal solidarity with the people of Iran in their
struggle for democracy and freedom. We strongly condemn the brutality of the
Iranian regime and demand an immediate stop of all acts of violence against
demonstrators and the release of all those detained.
We call on
all progressive and pro-human rights individuals and organisations in all the
corners of the world to raise their voice against these murderous acts of the
Iranian regime against the people of Iran.
June 2009
Signatories (incomplete list)
Aziz Al Azmeh,
Professor,
Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary
Aijaz Ahmad, Writer and Journalist, (India)
Geof Barr,
University of Exeter (UK)
Sohrab Behdad, Professor, Denison University, (USA)
Robert
Brecher - University of Brighton (UK)
Terry Brotherstone,
University of Aberdeen, Department of History; Past President University and
College Union Scotland, (UK)
Andrew Chitty, University of Sussex, (UK)
Noam Chomsky, MIT (USA)
John P. Clark, Gregory Curtin, Distinguished Professor of Humane
Studies and the Professions Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University New
Orleans, (USA)
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University (USA)
Mehrdad
Darvishpour, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Hossien Dowlatabadi, Writer, (France)
Smaranda Ene, Case Western Reserve University, (USA)
Sharham
Ghanbari, sociological researcher, Paris, (France)
Mark Gasiorowski, Professor, Political Science and International
Studies, Louisiana State University, (USA)
Guemiche, professeur de mathematiques, (France)
Fataneh
Farahani, Stockholm University, (Sweden)
Mark Fischer,
Communist Party of Great Britain (UK)
Bridget
Fowler - SAASS, University of Glasgow (UK)
Charles Fox, Consultant, Northampton General Hospital, (UK)
Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London, (UK)
Bill
Fletcher, The executive editor of The Black Commentator, (USA)
Ali Asqhar Haj-Sied-Javadi, Writer/ political activist, (France)
Betty H. Fussell,
writer (USA)
Amir Hassanpour, University of Toronto, (Canada)
Robert Heimer, professor, Yale University School of Public
Health, (USA)
David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, (UK)
Hassan Hessam, Poet, (France)
Khalil Hindi, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
Geoffrey M
Hodgson University of Hertfordshire, (UK)
Anton
Holberg, political activist (Germany)
Ted Hiscock, doctor, general practitioner, Birmingham (UK)
Laura Hope, Loyola University New Orleans, (USA)
Assad Jalali, University UCU, Swansea, (UK)
Houshang Keshavarz - Sadr,
Researcher and former head of anthropology section, Tehran University. Paris
Mansour Khaksar, Poet, (USA)
Nasim Khaksar - writer, (Netherlands)
Esmail Khoi, Poet & critique, (UK)
Mehdi Kia, Political Activist, (UK)
Kianoosh, Writer, New York (USA)
Joanne Landy, Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy
(USA).
Moshé Machover, professor, Kings College, University of London,
(UK)
Banafsheh Madaninejad, University of Texas at Austin,(USA)
Bahman Maghsoudlou, Writer/Filmmaker, (USA)
Adeline Masquelier, Professor, Director, Religious Studies
Program, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University (USA)
Yassamine Mather, Glasgow University, (UK)
Philippa Matthews, doctor, general practitioner, London (UK)
Mike Macnair, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford and CPGB
(UK)
Ardeshir Mehrdad, Writer /Researcher (UK)
Robert Milgrom,
Professor and Co-chair, Humanities and Sciences Department, School of Visual
Arts. NY, (USA)
Emad Mirmotahari,
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, Tulane University (USA)
Behrooz Moazami,
Loyola University New Orleans, (USA)
Nasser Mohajer, Writer and researcher, (France)
Bagher Mo'meni, Historian, (France)
Manijeh Moezi,
doctor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, (USA)
Farshid Moghimi, Straters
University, (USA)
Haideh Moghissi,
Professor of
Sociology and Women's Studies, York University, Toronto, (Canada)
Shahrzad Mojab,
University of Toronto, (Canada)
Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College, Massachusetts (USA)
Majid Naficy, Poet, (USA)
Farhad Nomani, Professor American University of Paris (France)
Nasser Pakdaman, Université Denis Diderot, Paris, (France)
Misagh Parsa,
Professor, Dartmouth College (USA)
Younes Parsa Benab, Straters
Univesity, (USA)
Simon Pirani - writer Journalist, (UK)
Hannu Reime, Independent Journalist,
(Finland)
Rizopoulos, University of Picardie, (France)
Mohammad Reza Shalguni, Political activist,
Azar Sheibani, London Metropolitan University Research Institute,
(UK)
Amit Singh, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities, (USA)
Andrew Smith - University of Glasgow, (UK)
Marianna
Spiliotopoulos, McGill University,
(Canada)
Hillel
Tiktin, professor, University of Glasgow (UK)
Jason Toynbee, Open University, (UK)
Kumru Toktamis,
Pratt Institute, NY, (USA)
Mehrdad Vahabi,
Associate
Professor in Economics, University of Paris (France)
Hilary
Wainwright - University of Manchester (UK)
Helen Ward,
Imperial College London, (UK)
Colwyn Williamson,
University of Wales, (UK)
Mehdi Yousefi, Human rights activist, Washington, USA
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