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We protest, condemn
and do not tolerate it: Awarding the Honorary Doctor of
Law Degree to Mohammad Khatami the Ex-President and One of the Heads of the
Reactionary Islamic Regime of Having the positions as president,
Minister of Culture and Guidance, and many other positions in the last 27
years Khatami is responsible for depriving the women of Under the presidency of
Khatami tens of women were stoned to death, hundreds of students were
arrested and tortured and tens of students, writers and intellectuals were
murdered, the workers struggle for the right of trade union were oppressed
and many of them were arrested and imprisoned and tens of newspapers and
magazines were banned and many publishers and their staffs were arrested and
imprisoned. During the time when Khatami
was the Minister of Culture and Guidance in summer 1989 thousands of
political prisoners in the summary courts with Khomeini’s order and the
cooperation of Khatami and many other of the top regime leaders were hanged
and buried in mass graves without the knowledge of their families. During that
time thousands of women were arrested and lashed, when they did not observe
the Islamic code of Hejab and the faces of many women were ripped or burned
when Hezbollah attacked them by razor blade or pouring acid over their faces.
In the recent years and months
the struggle of the Iranian people and particularly the struggle of the women
in From the other side, Mohammad
Khatami is striving to find a way out for the Islamic Republic from its
international isolation. Recently he was in US and gave speeches about
“Democracy” and the “Human rights” and now he is in To award the honorary Doctor of
Law degree to someone who has been trampling the women’s right for years is
openly an insult to millions of Iranian women and their struggle for their
rights and their equality. That means to endorse the suppression of the
Iranian workers and approving the decree of execution of Kobra Rahman-Pour,
Shala Jahed, Delaram Darabi, Malek Ghorbani and tens of women who are
condemned to death according to the mediaeval Islamic laws and now are waiting
in the death corridors to be stoned to death or hanged. In one word it is
approving a system that its existence is inseparable from the suppression,
execution, imprisonment, oppression and exploitation. We Iranian women abroad in
unity with the majority of the Iranian women condemn the British government and
the authorities of We Appeal to the Progressive
and Freedom Lovers (women and men!) We as Iranian women resident
in Join us in this street protest
in order that once again to show that the oppressed in their march for
building a new world with no oppression, no exploitation and no inequality
are behind each other no matter their race, their color or their sex, and
nothing can harm a bit the chain of our unity. Date of Protest: Wednesday- 1St
November 2006- at 4:30 pm. Address: Nearest Underground
Station: The 8 March Women’s Organization(Iranian
and Afghanistani) October 2006 www.8mars.com |