More than 110 academics, retired educators and labor and civic activists have introduced their intention to go on a starvation strike on Friday, the sixth of Bahman.
In their assertion, they expressed their protest in opposition to the federal government’s mistaken practices and widespread injustices, and their solidarity with progressive girls, civil and political activists who went on strike on Thursday, the fifth of Bahman. They additionally talked about their deep perception within the hashtag #no_to_execution and their opposition to the dying penalty, citing the Declaration of Human Rights.
They additionally cited inhuman and governmental beatings, the arrest and imprisonment of free women and men, and the plight of two imprisoned academics in Shiraz who’re additionally on starvation strike as different causes for his or her choice to hitch the starvation strike.
They emphasised that the starvation strike on Friday just isn’t solely an ethical motion of companionship and emotional empathy with the struggling, but in addition a strategy to strengthen a collective spirit and resist injustices in pursuit of egalitarian and liberating beliefs.
They additionally referred to as for the unconditional cancellation of the dying sentence, contemplating it one of the primary calls for of their quest for freedom.
The assertion was signed by plenty of people together with Ismail Abdi, Jafar Azimzadeh, Sara Siahpour, Parveen Mohammadi, and others.