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London, 5 Jul – Political prisoners in Iran’s south-eastern city of Zahedan have issued a statement in support of the Free Iran mass rally on July 9 in Paris.

Smuggled out at great risk, the statement declared: “We, political prisoners of the Central Prison of Zahedan, call on all our countrymen and women, both inside the country and abroad, to take part in the mass gathering of Iranians in Paris. The rally will be a demonstration of the defense of the rights of the Iranian people. We need to end the many catastrophes overtaking the country.”

This past weekend, the world lost a great human rights activist and now, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian Resistance had paid tribute to a fallen hero.

Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Jewish-American writer and Holocaust survivor, died on July 2, aged 87.

London, 4 Jul – A leading British politician has expressed support for The Free Iran rally and encouraged governments and global institutions to do the same.

Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC and Joint Chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, said that Iran must be persuaded to change its current outlook on human rights. He said that, if necessary, sanctions that were lifted as a result of last year’s nuclear deal should be re-imposed.

London, 4 Jul – Following reports of the staggering number of executions in Iran, a British MEP had described the notion that President Rouhani is in any way a moderate as ‘the worst kind of wishful thinking’.

Julie Girling, an MEP for South West England, stated that although she and other MEPs were concerned for the plight of women in Iran, they were encouraged by the work of the Iranian Resistance.

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London, 4 Jul – Twenty-five Nobel laureates have declared their support for the “great campaign in pursuit of democracy and human rights in Iran,” which finds another expression in a mass rally in Paris on 9 July.

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London, 4 Jul – Nearly 80 Church leaders from the United Kingdom and the United States have signed a declaration in which they say, “Reports by the UN Secretary General, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and the U.S. State Department all indicate that the repression of Christians has not only continued but intensified during the presidency of Hassan Rouhani.”

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Tehran, 3 Jul – Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezzi, who is father to two members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), has sent a message from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison declaring his support for the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance held in Paris on 9 July.