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It is time for the international community to condemn Tehran regime’s atrocities against women |
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Wednesday, 09 March 2005 |
 Maryam Rajavi's message to Beijing +10 Conference
Simultaneous with the Beijing +10 Conference in New York and on the eve
of the International Women's Day, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi sent a message to the
Conference's president.
Simultaneous with the Beijing +10 Conference in New York and on the eve
of the International Women's Day, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the
President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, sent a message to the
Conference's president.
Congratulating the advent of March 8 and wishing success for the
conference in taking decisive action to eliminate gender discrimination
and oppression and confront the ominous phenomenon of Islamic
fundamentalism, Mrs. Rajavi expressed the hope that the conference
would take effective steps in ending the international community's
inaction vis-à-vis the horrific suppression of women in Iran.
"Tens years after the Beijing conference, the plight of Iranian women
in all twelve areas specified in Beijing's platform of action has
worsened," Mrs. Rajavi said. She added, "Iran has the highest number of
political executions in the world, especially those of women. In two
decades, tens of thousands of women have been executed. The clerics
have spared no crime or brutality against Iranian women, including
extracting nails, burning or amputating parts of their bodies,
torturing children before their mothers, raping women and executing
pregnant women.
Mrs. Rajavi noted that the plight of Iranian women had deteriorated in
all respects. "The number of those victimized by prostitution in Tehran
has reached 600,000. The number of prostitution centers in the capital
has reached 8,000. In prisons, rape and sexual harassment of women is
rampant. Some 7,000 people commit suicide every year, most of whom are
women," she added.
The Iranian Resistance's President-elect said, "Breaching global
principles and imposing inhuman discrimination against women by the
clerical regime are carried out in their entirety under religious
pretexts. As a Muslim woman, I declare that the mullahs ruling Iran are
the worst enemies of Islam. The mindset and practice of the
dictatorship ruling Iran toward women amounts to nothing more than
reactionary thinking and inhuman crimes to preserve the illegitimate
regime, which contradicts the foundations of the liberating teachings
of Islam and the Quran. Islam, as described by Prophet Mohammad, is the
religious of mercy, peace and equality. It is not only compatible with
the principles of human rights and women's freedoms, but it is also a
beacon and an inspiration for women on the road to their emancipation.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized, in circumstances where the spread of democracy
has become a global mantra, the violations of the most basic rights of
Iranian women must not be ignored. It was time for the
international community to censure the Iranian regime's atrocities
against Iranian people, she said. On behalf of the Iranian people and
Resistance, Mrs. Rajavi urged women's international conference in New
York to:
- Condemn the Iranian regime's atrocities against women, especially
the execution of girls under the age of 18, the policy of compulsory
veiling and the application of inhuman, cruel and degrading punishments
against women, such as flogging in public;
- Recognize the clerical regime as a violator of international
covenants on women for repeatedly trampling upon its obligations and
the refusal to accept CEDAW;
- Demand that the regime provide to international authorities the
names of thousands of Iranian women executed during the 1988 massacre
of political prisoners along with exact information on their burial
sites and the names of those responsible for this horrific crime;
- Exert pressure on the Iranian regime to accept an international
delegation to investigate the plight of women political prisoners and
the catastrophic conditions of women's prisons.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 8, 2005
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