Date: 05/02/2010
David Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
Re: Help to Stop Executions in Iran!
Dear David Miliband,
According to Amnesty International’s most recent report from 2008, the Islamic Republic of Iran have executed 346 people in 2008.
During the current demonstrations in Iran which began in June 2009, many men, women, and even children as young as 12 years old were arrested, imprisoned, tortured and raped; some of them were executed; many of those are still in prison and facing execution. This is not the first time the Islamic regime has fiercely cracked down any sign of opposition to its existence and brutally suppressed the struggle of the people for freedom.
We have been receiving reports on brutal attacks on protesters, arrests and imprisonment, torture and rape and execution of the detainees. Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI) is campaigning to free these political prisoner, and also to stop medieval treatment of theses innocent people by the Islamic regime, and we need your support more than ever before.
I urge you now to:
- Use your influence to press Islamic regime of Iran to abolish the use of the death penalty
- Encourage all other European countries to pressure Iran to cease all executions
Only by sustained international pressure will Iran stop taking innocent lives in this cavalier, arbitrary and brutal way.
Yours Sincerely
Shiva Mahbobi
Spokesperson
Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)