The conference, chaired by Mr. Pierre Bercis, the President of the new Human Rights in France, also featured French Senator Jean-Pierre Michel; Jean Kahn, former chairman of the Human Rights Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister’s office; Bishop Jacques Gaillot; Violette Daguerre, chair of the Arab Human Rights Committee and its former chair Dr. Mansouf Mazrouki, Dr. Saleh Rajavi, NCRI representative in France and Switzerland, Stephane Rajavi, juriste and a number of other prominent politicians, human rights activists and lawyers.
The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi honored the occasion in a messaged to the conference venerating over 120,000 individuals executed for the cause of freedom and democracy in Iran.
She said: "Death and execution are mullahs’ means to hold on to power. For them, execution is not a punishment, but a fulcrum for their own survival."
Mrs. Rajavi called upon all human rights activists to stand by the Iranians’ demand for democratic change in Iran.
Speakers at the Paris conference condemned the gross violations of human rights in Iran, particularly the escalation of public executions since the appointment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the mullahs’ new president. The dignitaries called on the international community and organizations to take practical steps to put an end to the atrocities in Iran.