NCRI – On November 28, the representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in London organized a press conference at the House of Commons on the human rights situation in Iran.
Two video clips of public hangings in Qazvin and Boroujerd were shown which had taken place in recent months.
NCRI – On November 28, the representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in London organized a press conference at the House of Commons on the human rights situation in Iran.
Two video clips of public hangings in Qazvin and Boroujerd were shown which had taken place in recent months.
Lord Alton of Liverpool chaired the conference attended by Lord Waddington, former Conservative Home Secretary; Baroness Gould; Hossein Abedini, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI; and Nasser Zia’i whose parents were murdered by the mullahs’ regime owing to their support to the People’s Mojahedin of Iran when he was only one year old.
Lord Alton said that the appalling human rights record of this regime has led to its condemnation by various UN bodies for 53 times. He expressed regret that the situation had deteriorated since Ahmadinejad became the mullahs’ president.
Nasser Zia’i, a young victim of cruelty in Iran spoke about his painful experience when his parents were murdered. He called on the audience who where shocked by his story to condemn human rights violations in Iran and denounce international community’s inaction in face of crimes committed by the mullahs. “How many people have to die like my mother and my father before the world decides to react?” he asked. “After all these people who have died so far, isn’t it time to do something?”
Then two films were shown on recent public hangings in the towns of Qazvin and Boroujerd that supporters of the Iranian Resistance managed to smuggle out of the country. The horrifying films further revealed the nature of this medieval regime and the extent of brutality in Iran.
On the dreadful scenes of hanging of young people in Iran, Lord Waddington said that he had never seen anything like them in his entire life. During past 27 years, the ruling mullahs have executed more than 120,000 members and supporters of the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, which is shocking, he said. He further stressed that it was a shameful decision by the British government and other EU member states to have unfairly labelled the People’s Mojahedin as terrorist just to please mullahs’ regime suppressive regime.
Lord Waddington ended up by saying that in his view there was no doubt that all the sacrifices made to bring freedom and democracy to Iran would eventually bear fruit. He regretted that in the West it had been for a long time that instead of helping the Resistance, governments had created obstacles on its path. He emphasized that it was time to remove the terrorist label from the People’s Mojahedin and the West had to side with the people against the mullahs’ regime.
Baroness Gould, Labour member of the House of Lords, said that it was necessary to show those films in a plenary session of the Parliament and everywhere else so that everybody can see the true nature of the mullahs.
As the last speaker, Hossein Abedini reiterated that it was high time for the regime’s human rights dossier to be referred to the UN Security Council and that its leaders were tried for their crimes against humanity in an international tribunal. This regime, he added, does not deserve to be a member of the International Community.
