NCRI – Iranians in Ottawa on Saturday held a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in Canada to denounce rampant and flagrant human rights violations in Iran and condemn the upcoming trip to New York by the mullahs’ President Hassan Rouhani.
The supporters of Iran’s main democratic opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or MEK), in the Canadian capital held banners reading “Stop Executions in Iran.”
Since Hassan Rouhani took office two years ago, there has been a drastic deterioration in the human rights situation in Iran.
Earlier this year a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Ahmad Shaheed noted that during Rouhani’s tenure ‘the overall situation has worsened’ with respect to human rights.”
Iranians plan to rally outside the United Nations in New York on September 28 to denounce the visit by the mullahs’ President Hassan Rouhani to the UN General Assembly.
The rally, which is being organized by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC), will press the international community to hold the regime in Iran accountable for its abhorrent human rights record.
The mullahs’ regime in Iran continues to execute more of its citizens per capita than any other U.N. member state. Some 2000 people have been executed under Rouhani in the past two years.
