Video: Don’t Let Ahmadinejad off the Hook in New York
(19 September 2011) As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York, four New Yorkers who closely follow developments in Iran talk about why the Iranian people expect the media and UN dignitaries to focus primarily on holding Ahmadinejad accountable for Iran’s human rights crisis during their meetings with him.
Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is joined by Professor Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University, Bitta Mostofi, a lawyer and human rights activist, and David Fine. Fine, an undergraduate student at Columbia and managing editor in chief of its newspaper, The Current, argues why Columbia students invited to dine with Ahmadinejad should not be “thrilled” and refuse him the occasion for self-aggrandizement.
Is it legitimate to ask who “are” the students and professors who have invited the gentleman to have dinner with them?
Thank you for shedding light on the Dart Wader’s plight to suffocate the voice of human rights
I appreciate your efforts for raising awareness about the fate of reformist prisoners of conscience however I am very much disappointed that you have not taken any stance against the possible public execution of a teenage defandant named Alireza Molla-Soltani.
If you are truely committed to abolition of Death Penalty in Iran then You will campaign for his Right to life as Human Rights cannot be applied selectively, the bottom line is that HR either applies to all or nobody, hence It is disappointing to see nothing done by ICHRI regarding a juvenile execution in Iran!
Amnesty International’s statement:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/teenager-accused-killing-%E2%80%9Ciran%E2%80%99s-strongest-man%E2%80%9D-set-be-hanged-2011-09-20
Iran Human Rights:
http://iranhr.net/spip.php?article2274
Webmaster: You apparently have not followed our coverage of this execution. See: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2011/09/execution-dadashi/ and http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2011/09/un-experts-condemn-juvenile-execution/