Petrelis Files

Urgent Plea to Human Rights Campaign & DC Gays

You are desperately needed on August 11 at the Iranian interests section office in Washington to condemn Iran's July public hanging of two teenagers.

Protests in Dublin, London, Montpilier, Paris and San Francisco will demand an end to the death penalty and single out Iran's state-sanctioned killing machine.

I beg of you, in the name of the gays worldwide who can't speak out for abolishing the death penalty and antigay human rights abuses, especially those in Iran, stage a news conference and picket line on August 11 at the only location in Washington that officially represents the Iranian government.

Add Washington to the list of cities around the world that on August 11 will participate in deploring the death penalty and demanding protections of gay people across the planet.

Please.
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Read more about where to protest in Washington on August 11 at this Daily Kos diary. The diary was started by Mike Meyer.

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Obviously, these murders have caused Iran embarrassment. As I did in my earlier diary, I plead for action.

Being horrified is not enough. These boys are calling to you, begging for you to do something that redresses this injustice. Let these boys not become just two more kids who trudged to their deaths quaking before forces too powerful to be resisted but altogether doomed from the start to be forgotten, ignored like so much sand on a desert wind.

As they cry out to me, so also do they cry out to you.

As I said in my original diary on this subject, the Interest Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States has a web site. They provide requests@daftar.org as an e-mail address.

You can write and fax:

Iranian Representative
Interest Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran
2209 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007

Tel: (202) 965-4990
Fax: (202) 965-1073

You may write, telephone, or fax the Iranian ambassador in Canada:

Ambassador Seyed Mouhammad Ali Moosavi, Embassy of Iran, 245 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario .K2P 2K2 Canada Telephone (OO1-613- 235-4726, 233-4726; Fax, 233-5712.

In addition, you may report your concerns about the horror visited on Mahmoud and Ayaz to:

The Bureau of Human Rights
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
Phone: (202) 647-1442.