{"id":16,"date":"2015-10-12T02:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=16"},"modified":"2015-10-13T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:31:38","slug":"irans-political-prisoners-write-to-eu-parliament-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/16\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s political prisoners write to EU Parliament chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English translation of a letter to Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, by a group of Iran\u2019s political prisoners:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament,<\/p>\n<p>As political prisoners in Iran\u2019s prisons, we urge you not to victimize human rights of the political prisoners and those executed for trade and economic deals. Your relations with Iran without taking into account and condemning the grave human rights violations in Iran would make the sword of the regime\u2019s executioners sharper over our head and would encourage the mullahs to increase the daily executions of the youth in this country.<\/p>\n<p>As political prisoners, we wouldn\u2019t welcome you shaking hands with the dictatorship ruling our homeland. However, if this is your decision to come to Iran, would you be kind enough to come to the prisons and torture chambers of this regime and visit us too so that we could inform you of the latest appalling situation of human rights violations in this land? We call on you to condemn the blatant human rights violations and arbitrary executions in Iran in your press conferences.<\/p>\n<p>With our sincere regards,<\/p>\n<p>Names of the political prisoners in Persian alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p>Farid Azmoudeh<br \/>\nReza Akbari-Monfared<br \/>\nIraj Hatami<br \/>\nMashallah Haeri<br \/>\nKhaled Hardani<br \/>\nRasoul Hardani<br \/>\nShahin Zoghi-Tabar<br \/>\nSaeed Shirzad<br \/>\nAlireza Faravani<br \/>\nAsghar Ghatan<br \/>\nHossein Kazemein-Boroujerdi<br \/>\nSaleh Kohandel<br \/>\nSaeed Masouri<br \/>\nAli Mashadi-Kazem<br \/>\nAli Moezi<br \/>\nMohammad-Ali Mansouri<br \/>\nMisagh Yazdan-Nejad<br \/>\nMasoud Arab-Choobdar<\/p>\n<p>10 October 2015<\/p>\n<p><em>This letter has been smuggled out of the prisons and the original letter has already been emailed to Mr. Schulz in Persian by a relative of a political prisoner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>English translation of a letter to Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, by a group of Iran\u2019s political prisoners: &nbsp; Hon. Martin Schulz, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/16\/\" title=\"Iran\u2019s political prisoners write to EU Parliament chief\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}