Naser Boladai, Marietja Schaake, Dr. Mostafa Azmayesh, Ali Ashrafi Moravi, Sadegh Nabatchian at the conference:“Iran – Country of ethnic and religious diversity: Challenges and opportunities”
Together with Marietje Schaake, (Member of the European Parliament, The Netherlands), representatives of the diverse spectrum in Iran were gathered at one table. The aim of the event was to promote dialogue between different groups in order to know and understand each other better and go hand in hand on the path to democracy and freedom in Iran. The socio-political situation in Iran and the nature and intentions of the regime are well known. At present, the resistance of Iranian exiles is forming a joint phalanx on the basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Naser Boladai, Sadegh, Nabatchian Ali Ashrafi Moravie and Dr. Mostafa Azmayesh reported about the diversity of the ethnic groups and ideologies in Iran. By examples from Kurds, Baluchis, dervishes and students, they showed how the shadow of the regime of Ali Khamenei is spreading itself over the diversity of cultures, languages, and the sovereignty of the individual groups and how the regime wants to bring all their cultures, languages and traditions under a personality cult that hides itself behind Velayat-e-faghi.
Marietje Schaake welcomed the joint conference of so many different groups and stressed the need for further dialogue as did all the other participants. She promised to continue her fight for individual cases (see Resolution for Nasrin Sotudeh) as well as for the improvement of the general human rights situation in Iran. Ms. Schaake will keep urging Catherine Ashton, High Commissioner for Foreign and Security Policy in the EP, to carry out so-called smart sanctions against the persons responsible within the regime. Ms. Schaake called on politicians and governments to put human rights in Iran high on their agenda.
Emile Franck, Amnesty International Belgium, Coordinator of Persian Gulf countries
Among the participants in Brussels was also Emile Franck, representative of Amnesty International, Belgium, who referred to the actions of ‘a face for freedom in Iran’ and ‘a face on human rights in Iran’. He pointed out that the pictures of the actions show a lot of very different people who united to fight for human rights in Iran. He pronounced the hope that one day, hopefully very soon, we would be able to hold similar actions in Tehran and further parts of Iran; to take pictures of Iranians from different backgrounds to request respect for human rights in other countries, and to unite them on a poster for everybody to be seen as a sign of protest and solidarity.
By: mehriran
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