By: A network of Iranian Webloggers
August 15, 2012
Your
Excellencies,
Distinguished
Leaders of NAM Member States,
We trust that by this date, you have all
received your formal invitations to the sixteenth Nonaligned Movement Summit
Conference. A movement that holds the
principle of “Respect for Human Rights” as it’s most pivotal membership
condition. A movement that requires
members to uphold “Justice” and adhere to international obligations.
The Non-aligned Movement was formed around
the core tenet of world peace and global security. Perhaps for this very reason, Nelson Mandela
was selected as Secretary General at one point, so that the world could hear
the group’s message of peace that it espoused in the seventh summit held in New
Delhi.
Ladies
and Gentlemen,
You are about to be hosted this time by a
country that instead of praise for human rights activists, it imprisons
them. Iran is recognized as one of the
world’s biggest human rights violators, due to the startling statistics of its political,
human rights activists, journalists and opposition prisoners.
In the aftermath of 2009 disputed presidential
elections, street protests were met with brutal and bloody confrontation by
regime forces, followed by arrest and imprisonment of hundreds of journalists,
political activists and bloggers who still remain in prison to this date. This has only exacerbated the dire human
rights situation in Iran.
Regime officials have a valid reason for
preventing Mr. Ahmed Shaheed, UN special human rights rapporteur, from
inspecting Iran’s prisons. They know
that an independent report will undoubtedly echo across the globe, the voices
of innocent people in prison solely for the crime of demanding Free and Transparent
Elections, thereby exposing gross violation of human rights in Iran.
Your
Excellencies,
Among the large groups of prisoners of the
sixteenth Summit’s host, you can find scores of social activists, lawyers,
journalists, university professors, students, laborers; non of whom have been
sentenced through courts of justice, fair trials or due process and they are
deprived of the most fundamental rights.
We, the Iranian media and social network activists, would like to
take the opportunity of your presence in our country, to request from your
excellencies to make the following a condition of your attending this
summit: Visiting Evin, Rajaie-Shahr and
Karoon prisons in cities of Tehran, Karaj and Ahvaz respectively, as well as Mr.
Mousavi, Mr. Karoubi and Mrs. Rahnavard who remain under house arrest after 19
months and deprived of all political prisoner rights.
In conclusion, we ask that you please make
your utmost effort to uphold the doctrine of human rights, as reflected in the
Movement’s manifesto, not as an ornamental element, rather as a precondition
for attending this conference. We close
with the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, one of the founding fathers of Non-Aligned
Movement, whose voice can still be heard across the deep recesses of history:
“Where freedom is menaced or justice
threatened, or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be
neutral.”
Letter to the Leaders of Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM)
By: A network of Iranian Webloggers
August 15, 2012
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