Shirin Ebadi, head of the Human Rights Defenders Center, has written a letter to the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Neda Al-Nashif. In the letter, she referred to her journey plans to Iran subsequent month and the rise in executions by the Islamic Republic, and requested the UN official to postpone or cancel her go to to Iran.
In the letter, Ebadi acknowledged, “Your journey at such a time will trigger the abuse of promoting and propaganda of the Islamic Republic.” She advisable that Al-Nashif chorus from touring to Iran in protest in opposition to the extra-legal and increasing executions.
Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, expressed concern in regards to the current executions of protesters and civil activists in Iran. She additionally suggested Al-Nashif to go to Iran and not using a headband, meet with odd individuals along with authorities officers, and go to Evin Prison to see the situations of human rights in Iran.
Al-Nashif’s deliberate journey to Iran on February third is to look at two human rights points within the area of “execution” and “ladies’s rights”. The Secretary General of the United Nations has reported an alarming enhance in executions by the Islamic Republic, and has known as for the rapid cessation of all executions and the discharge of arbitrarily detained people.
Despite home and worldwide requests, the Islamic Republic has continued to extend the execution of dissidents, with the newest case being the simultaneous execution of Mohammad Qabadlou and Farhad Salimi on the third of Bahman.