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A day after the opposition’s movement’s massive show of force, a group of conservative Iranian MPs have called for the execution of Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi.
Video: Iran's Green Movement Still Alive
In a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, a group of Iranian academics have demanded the “removal of all restrictions” in Iran “so that people can openly and freely exercise their civic and political rights.”
Just hours before the Green Movement takes to the streets to express solidarity with the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, the citizens in Tehran have taken to the rooftops of the nation’s capital chanting “Allah-O-Akbar” (meaning God is greatest) in preparation for the planned demonstration on Monday.
Local sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that on Monday, 7 February 2011, only a few days after the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions expressed concern about the secret executions inside Vakilabad Prison, 10 more prisoners with drug-related offenses were secretly hanged at Vakilabad. Five were Afghans.
More than 25,000 have joined a Facebook page set up to support a planned march by the Iranian Green Movement in solidarity with the pro-democracy uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
The Iranian Interior Ministry is obligated to issue a permit for a planned rally in support of pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt and Tunisia, consistent with Iran’s international commitments to respect the freedom of assembly and Article 27 of the Iranian Constitution, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.
In the lead-up to the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the Leaders of Iran ' s opposition Green Movement have called on the Iranian people not to tolerate tyranny and signaled that Iran's armed forces would not leave the Iranian nation alone.
Zanyar Moradi is a Kurdish prisoner from sentenced to public hanging on charges of moharebeh (enmity against God) and “corruption on earth” whose father, Eqbal Moradi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran from his home in Kurdistan, Iraq.
An Iranian student studying at Tehran University's social sciences faculty has been arrested by the Revolutionary Guard.