Urgent: Write to Your Government — Crimes Against Humanity in Iran
19/01/2026
A Call to Act: Iran Is Facing Crimes Against Humanity
Send This Sample Letter to Your Government Now!
Since December 28, 2025, following nationwide protests, the people of Iran have faced brutal and unprecedented violence by the regime.
On January 8, in order to carry out these atrocities away from the eyes of the international community, the regime imposed a nationwide internet and phone blackout, deliberately silencing the population while mass crimes were committed, hidden from the world’s view.
According to information received by the Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI):
- Between 20,000 and 30,000 people — including children — have been killed.
In one documented case near the city of Chalus, repressive forces carried out a mass killing of people in a village. Initial estimates indicate nearly 1,500 people were murdered in that single area. This massacre occurred in near-total media silence. In Kermanshah, hospitals such as Taleghani Hospital are filled with bodies stacked on top of one another.
- Tens of thousands of people, including children, have been arrested.
The whereabouts of many detainees remain unknown. Torture and forced confessions are routinely used in prisons.
- Families are denied contact with detainees and are continuously threatened by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) not to speak up.
- Eyewitnesses report piles of bodies in morgues and hospitals.
- Hospitals have been raided by the IRGC, including Milad Hospital in Isfahan.
Medical personnel have been abducted, and injured protesters are seized directly from hospital beds.
- Security forces are executing severely wounded patients with so-called “finishing shots.”
According to information received by the CFPPI, crimes inside medical centres have reached their peak. In the city of Kermanshah, Security forces are killing severely injured patients by firing “finishing shots.” Hospitals, including Taleghani Hospital, are filled with piles of bodies stacked on top of one another, yet the regime is refusing to hand over the bodies of those killed to their families. Security forces are abducting injured patients directly from hospital beds. As a result, many of the wounded, fearing arrest or execution, do not dare seek medical care and are instead being treated in homes under extremely difficult conditions and without proper facilities.
- Bodies are confiscated by the IRGC.
Families are forced to pay between 7 million and 1 billion toman to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones.
- Many wounded people avoid hospitals out of fear of arrest or execution. As a result, countless injured civilians die from bleeding and lack of medical care, treated secretly in homes without proper facilities.
- Mothers have been forced to bury their children in their own gardens, secretly, to prevent the IRGC from abducting the bodies.
- Families are banned from holding funerals or public burials.
- Martial law has been imposed across many cities.
In places such as city of Kermanshah, snipers are firing on gatherings of as few as two people.
- The regime’s leader, Ali Khamenei, and judiciary chief, Eje’i, have openly called for swift trials and executions of detained protesters.
Hundreds now face imminent execution.
- Homes are being raided to arrest protesters, abduct the wounded, and even seize bodies of those already killed.
This is only a fraction of the reality, and it is happening now across Iran. Because of the digital blackout, anyone attempting to send information outside the country risks arrest, torture, and disappearance. Despite the threat of death, people in Iran are using every possible opportunity to find ways to send footage to the outside world.
What is happening in Iran is a crime against humanity. It is a war crime.
Yet despite this:
- Not a single European government has expelled the regime’s diplomats.
- Not one has shut down the regime’s embassy.
- Not one has recalled its ambassador in protest.
This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is complicity.
While governments issue empty statements and continue business as usual, people in Iran are being massacred.
People in Iran need your voice. They need your action — NOW.
Please write to your government and urge them to:
- Immediately withdraw all ambassadors from Iran
- Expel the regime’s diplomats and shut down the regime’s embassies
- Demand the immediate release of all detainees and political prisoners
- Force the restoration of internet and phone access — now
It takes five minutes to send an email. Your voice can save lives.
Take action now: below is a sample letter and a list of contact addresses for some of the foreign ministers of key countries.
Use them to demand immediate intervention and support for the people of Iran.
Previous press releases:
Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI)
🌐 www.cfppi.org
Shiva Mahbobi
Spokeswoman
📧 shiva.mahbobi@gmail.com
📞 +44 7572 356666
Sample letter: (you can use your own text or send the following. Please include the demands in your message)
Dear Minister,
I am writing to urge you to take immediate and decisive action in response to the ongoing crimes against humanity being committed by the regime in Iran against people.
Since December 28, 2025, following nationwide protests, the people of Iran have faced brutal and unprecedented violence. On January 8, the regime imposed a nationwide internet and phone blackout to deliberately silence the population and conceal mass atrocities from the international community.
Credible reports confirm mass killings, widespread arrests, torture, enforced disappearances, executions, hospital raids, and the targeting of injured protesters and medical personnel. These acts constitute crimes against humanity under international law.
Expressions of concern are no longer sufficient. Continued diplomatic relations without consequences amount to complicity.
I urge your government to take the following actions without delay:
- Demand the immediate and unconditional release of all detainees and political prisoners
- Immediately withdraw all ambassadors from Iran and publicly announce that this action is in protest against the atrocities being committed
- Expel the regime’s diplomats and shut down the regime’s embassies
- Proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation
- Force the immediate restoration of internet and phone access
The people of Iran are risking their lives to expose these crimes. They urgently need action, not silence.
I ask you to stand on the right side of history and act now.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your City / Country]
List of contact addresses for some of the foreign ministers of key countries:
UK: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk coopery@parliament.uk
France: https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/navigation/email-us/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Germany: menschenrechtsbeauftragter@auswaertiges-amt.de
Form:https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/visa-service/buergerservice/contact-form
Italy: ministero.affariesteri@cert.esteri.it
The Netherlands: https://www.government.nl/contact/public-information-service/email
Luxemburg: https://mae.gouvernement.lu/en/support/contact.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Belgium: david.jordens@diplobel.fed.be pierre.steverlynck@diplobel.fed.be florinda.baleci@diplobel.fed.be
Finland: kirjaamo.um@gov.fi
Spain: secretaria.ministro@maec.es dg.cdpr@maec.es informae@maec.es
Sweden: ud.registrator@gov.se
Norway: post@mfa.no
Denmark: um@um.dk
Portugal: https://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/gc24/ministries/foreign-affairs/contacts
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