{"id":5483,"date":"2016-09-18T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2016-09-21T22:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T03:16:17","slug":"5483","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5483\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition to the Government of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"accordion1-collapse-item-1\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse in\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div class=\"pet-details-text\">\n<div class=\"pet-prayer\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5495\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.parl.gc.ca\/en\/Petition\/Sign\/e-563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t1-300x226.png\" alt=\"Please click on the picture to sign the petition\" width=\"457\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t1-326x245.png 326w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t1-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t1.png 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Please click on the picture to sign the petition<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.parl.gc.ca\/en\/Petition\/Sign\/e-563\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Petition to the Government of Canada<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<div>Whereas:<\/div>\n<ul class=\"whereas\">\n<li>Iran is detaining and imprisoning Canadian citizen Homa Hoodfar and Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour;<\/li>\n<li>Iran continues to execute minors in contravention of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Iran has ratified;<\/li>\n<li>The Parliament of Canada unanimously adopted a motion recognizing the mass murder of thousands of political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988 as constituting crimes against humanity under international law, and whereas many of the figures alleged to have carried out such crimes remain active in various branches of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including its current Minister of Justice, Mostafa Pourmohammadi;<\/li>\n<li>Iran systemically persecutes and denies education and basic rights to the Baha&#8217;i population;<\/li>\n<li>Iran funds terrorist groups and calls for the destruction of Israel; and<\/li>\n<li>Iran is selective in compliance with the Geneva Convention on Diplomacy which would put at risk the security and protection of Canadian Foreign Service employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pet-para\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We, the undersigned, <b>citizens and residents of Canada<\/b>, call upon the <b>Government of Canada <\/b>to:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pet-para\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1. Call for the immediate release and return to Canada of Dr. Homa Hoodfar and Saeed Malekpour;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pet-para\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">2. Not consider re-opening the consulate of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ottawa without these assurances; and<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pet-para\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">3. Make human rights the bench mark from which to consider re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Iran.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Petition to the Government of Canada Whereas: Iran is detaining and imprisoning Canadian citizen Homa Hoodfar and Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour; Iran continues to execute <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5483\/\" title=\"Petition to the Government of Canada\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-rights","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","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=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}