NCRI – Iranians in Denmark on Saturday rallied in central Aarhus to condemn the soaring rate of executions in Iran. They also denounced the planned trip next week by the mullahs’ President Hassan Rouhani to the United Nations General Assembly.
The supporters of Iran’s main democratic opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or MEK), in the second-largest Danish city held banners reading “#No2Rouhani” and “Stop Executions in Iran.”
Last Tuesday (September 15), PMOI (MEK) supporters rallied outside the U.S. embassy in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen to condemn the death in prison of labor activist Shahrokh Zamani on September 13.
Mr. Zamani, who was spending his fourth year in prison in Iran, was found dead in his prison cell with his mouth full of blood and a bruised head.
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.
