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An International Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty in Iran United Kingdom Campaign Partner: Peter Tatchell and OutRagee! |
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An International Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty in Iran United Kingdom Campaign Partner: Peter Tatchell and OutRagee! |
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You can find our sample letter here Dear Friends and Supporters in the United Kingdom, We are proud to launch our No Execution Campaign to abolish the death penalty in Iran. According to the Islamic penal code in Iran, homosexuals should be sentenced to death because of their sexual orientation. Both gay men and lesbians have been hung or stoned in Iran for the crime of homosexuality--Lavat. Amnesty International reports that Iran executed 346 people in 2008 (http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/iran). Executions in Iran are not only about gay men and lesbians. Activists and ordinary people--women, children, religious minorities, ethnic minorities, reporters--many Iranian people--are at risk for execution in Iran. “346” is a conservative count. In other words Iran executed one person per day in 2008. The regime continues with this inhuman penalty--against the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Iran is a signatory. Iran must stop taking innocent lives in such a cavalier, arbitrary and brutal way. Our first goal in this No Execution Campaign is to send at least 346 letters to the British government to urge our government to press Iran to abolish the death penalty. Peter Tatchell and the LGBT human rights group OutRage! are sponsoring this campaign in England. We seek at least one partner organization in every other country to do the same. As campaign partners we will place each organization’s name on the No Execution Campaign website. Each country’s No Execution Campaign organization would translate the call for action into the language of their country. Each organization in the No Execution Campaign would send an official letter to their Ministers of Foreign Affairs to introduce the campaign to their government. We request that each country elicit 346 letters from their citizens to stop executions in Iran. Please print out this sample letter, sign and post it. We request you to send an email to uk@noexecution.com when you send this letter in order to keep tracking the campaign letters. You can find our sample letter here For discussion, further information or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@noexecution.com
Your sincerely, Arsham Parsi Communication Coordinator Iranian Homosexual Human Rights Council No Execution Campaign www.noexecution.com info@noexecution.com
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