Sun, January 9, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST 
(1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PST) 

A brutal campaign of arrests, torture and executions is now taking place in Iran.  The numbers of political prisoners continue to grow amidst widespread, heroic protest. This is an emergency. The lives and dignity of hundreds of political prisoners are in imminent, mortal danger.  All those who stand for justice and yearn for a better world must rally to the cause of freeing Iran’s political prisoners NOW.

So please mark your calendars for January 9, 2022, and join us to discuss this urgent battle and its importance for the Iranian peoples’ future—and humanity’s.  Hear from relatives and former political prisoners about their loved ones and their inspiring heroism.  Learn about the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners—while also opposing U.S. aggression—and how you can be part of this high stakes battle.

 Featured Speakers:

• Mariam Claren, daughter of German-Iranian dual citizen and political prisoner Nahid Taghavi held in Iran since October 2020. Mariam will speak about her mother’s case and its relationship to the struggle to free all of Iran’s political prisoners.

 • Lawdan Bazargan, former political prisoner, family member of victims of the 1988 massacre of Iran’s political prisoners, and human rights activist. A graduate of Cal State University Fullerton, she has written extensively on the 1988 massacre of Iran’s political prisoners, movements of mothers and family members who lost their children, and grief.

 • Larry Everest, a spokesperson for the IEC; author of Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda; journalist and contributor to revcom.us.

 • Dr. Azam Niroomand-Rad, emeritus professor, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; honorary faculty member of the Dept. of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

 There will be music, a Q&A and more.

 Sponsors and participants from diverse political perspectives will join together for this event.  We urge you (individually or as an organization) to co-sponsor this exciting program, and help us reach people across the U.S. and internationally; to sign the Emergency Appeal: The Lives of Iran’s Political Prisoners Hang in the Balance—We Must ACT Now, and to donate to its further publication.¹

 In the words of world-renowned Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman:

"If I have signed on to the Emergency Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran, it is because I know that this initiative will effectively call attention to the situation of men and women in that country who, if enough pressure is brought to bear on its leaders, could—tomorrow be liberated from terrible conditions and extraordinary injustice…I am convinced—from personal experience—that the prisoners themselves are given strength to survive and persevere …They know others, faraway, care what happens to them, and we should not let them down.”

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 For more information or to contact the organizers of this event please email forum@uusf.org and freeiranspoliticalprisoners@gmail.com, or visit the event page on the IEC website.