An Italian citizen asks Federica Mogherini to say #No2Rouhani in her trip to #Iran
An Italian Citizen used twitter to send a message to Federica Mogherini,
In her voice message Ms. Mari asked Federica Mogherini to say #No2Rouhani and to respect Human Rights as well as European and Italian values, while she described Europe as one of the most beautiful places in the world,
Some other Italian Citizens also joined her by writing #NO2Rouhani on banners and making some photo-calls.
Federica Mogherini is traveling to Tehran on August 5, 2017 to participate in Rouhani’s second term according to her announcement on Twitter
High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini will travel in her capacity as Chair of the Joint Commission of the JCPOA, to attend the inauguration ceremony of Hassan Rouhani. On this occasion she will have bilateral meetings with Iranian dignitaries to review the state of implementation of the nuclear deal and to discuss issues of bilateral and regional relevance according to European Union External Action website. The statement didn’t mention anything about discussing Human Rights in Iran.
Mogherini has been defending the nuclear deal constantly without paying attention to the Human Rights situation in Iran nor the IRGC’s meddling in the neighboring countries specially in Syria during the 4 years of Rouhani’s first term.
Federica Mogherini have been meeting Javad Zarif several of times during Rouhani’s first term as she played a major role in the JCPOA known as the Iran Deal and she traveled to Tehran twice during the past years,
Meanwhile Amnesty International made a statement on August 2, 2017 highlighting that Iran’s judicial and security bodies have waged a vicious crackdown against human rights defenders since Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013, demonizing and imprisoning activists who dare to stand up for people’s rights,
Amnesty International also launched a Social media camping using the Hashtag
#FreeOurDefenders
Iran vilifies human rights defenders as ‘enemies of the state’
The organization is calling on the EU, which announced plans to relaunch a bilateral human rights dialogue with Iran in 2016, to speak out in the strongest terms against the persecution of human rights defenders in the country.
“The international community, and in particular the EU, must not stay silent over the outrageous treatment of human rights defenders in Iran,” said Philip Luther.
“Instead of appeasing Iranian officials, the EU should forcefully call for the immediate and unconditional release of all those jailed for their peaceful human rights activism and for an end to the misuse of the justice system to silence activists.”
The report provides a comprehensive overview of the crackdown targeting a wide range of human rights defenders from key battlegrounds for human rights in Iran. It highlights 45 cases including anti-death penalty campaigners, women’s rights activists, trade unionists, minority rights activists, human rights lawyers, and activists seeking truth, justice and reparation for mass extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances in the 1980s.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of critically ill human rights activist Arash Sadeghi, who is serving a total of 19 years in prison for “offences” that included communicating with Amnesty International as well as sending information to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and members of the European Parliament.
Despite his critical condition, the authorities have repeatedly blocked his transfer to a hospital outside prison, in reprisal for a hunger strike he staged between October 2016 and January 2017, in protest at the imprisonment of his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, for writing a fictional story about stoning.
Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who led the Centre for Human Rights Defenders in Iran, is serving a 16-year prison sentence also in connection with her human rights work. The criminal case against her was opened in reprisal for a meeting she had with EU’s former foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, on International Women’s Day in 2014.
The Iranians in Europe and USA as well as some Syrians have also been criticizing Federica Mogheringi’s trip to the Iranian Capital in a social campaign using the Hashtags #No2Rouhani and #FreeIran
