Letter from Narges Mohammadi to UN General Assembly
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi sent a letter to the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, calling on the UN to take urgent action against the Iranian government’s rights violations.
News Center- The 79th session of the UN General Assembly and the Summit of the Future took place in New York on September 22, 2024. The leaders at the UN General Assembly session received a letter written from prison by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, calling for the release of political prisoners and an end to the repression of women and civil society in Iran. The letter has been published on the Instagram page of Narges Mohammadi.
Narges Mohammedi wrote the following letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the members of the UN General Assembly:
“Two years have passed since the start of the Women, Life, Freedom movement. A civil society movement that has spread throughout Iran. It is a democratic movement whose demands were expressed by the slogan ‘Woman, Life, Freedom,’ which carried a clear call for democracy and equality in Iran.
‘We have been extremely worried in recent days’
As with previous popular uprisings and social movements, the price paid for the active support shown by all sections of the Iranian population, who rose up in solidarity, was brutal repression, which continues to this day.
The world is witnessing the massacres, executions, imprisonments and violent, ruthless repression of women in Iran's streets, detention centers and prisons.
We have been extremely worried in recent days, with several women being condemned to death including Pakhshan Azizi and Sharifeh Mohammadi.
The representatives of the Iranian government will be among you at the United Nations General Assembly session.
I ask you to urgently call for respect for human rights as a precondition for all negotiations whatever the level, as it is the only possible way to achieve democracy and peace in the Middle East and Iran.
It's time for action, and I'm asking you to replace words with concrete, effective measures.
I urge you to act forcefully and immediately for an end to the widespread and brutal executions of political prisoners, the release of all political prisoners and an end to the repression of women and civil society in Iran.”