
Voice of America interviews Nazanin Afshin-Jam

The events that led to the death of Mazdak have already been well documented and Ali has denied to have committed the crime when he was 16, which is 5 years ago, and he has been in jail ever since.
Ever since the publication of Ali’s case in IRAN newspaper , the reaction of thousands of Iranians, from ordinary people, parents, doctors, engineers, clerics, family of the Iran-Iraq war martyrs, to Ali’s schoolmates and teachers, to radio and TV announcers and news reporters from all over the country have been over-whelming. So far Mazdak’s mother is reported to have forgiven Ali, but Mazdak’s father has not expressed any change in his stance. People have been asking for contact information of Mazdak’s father to try to convince him to save the young Ali from being hanged.
In violation of Iran’s written commitment to the United Nations “Convention on the right of the child” Iran’s judiciary have sentenced Ali to death. People seem to have given up on Iran’s leaders and judiciary and as the minutes go by and less time is left to save Ali , people are praying to hear one single word from Ali’s father: Forgiveness.
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2007/ali-mahin-torabi-0
Stop Child Executions Campaign has created a mirror blog for Ali Mahin-Torabi with articles in Persian directly copied from Ali’s own blog. SCE also maintains its own blog on iranian.com.
Many articles such as those previously featured here by Azarin Sadegh about Ali Mahin-Torabi were initially posted on iranian.com. Thanks to the site owner and editor Mr. Jahanshah Javid, the articles written by Ali as well as many of the SCE’s news articles have recently been chosen as the featured blogs on iranian.com which has further helped spread the news about the children facing executions among Iranians worldwide.
To read the article click: https://www.stopchildexecutions.com/files/Flare_Dec_2007.pdf
(if the link does not work on your computer, you can right click on it and download the PDF file)
“we must start a new paradigm, a new way of thinking….instead of the United
In 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War, the U.N. General Assembly declared that respect for human rights and human dignity is “the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,” and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Two years later, the Assembly suggested its founding nations observe December 10 as Human Rights Day, and invited all states and interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit.
Since then, many governmental and civil organizations active in the human rights field around the world schedule special events to commemorate Human Rights Day.
One such event took place in Vancouver on Saturday, where a group of eminent human rights defenders participated in a forum that touched on issues in some of the world’s worst human rights hotspots. Host Apaak Clement, founder of Canadian Students for Darfur, opened the forum with his definition of freedom: “The divine right to live and develop your talents, skills and abilities, without fear of discrimination, intimidation, oppression and death.”
Held at Simon Fraser University, there were six panelists, of whom the keynote speaker was former cabinet minister Hon. David Kilgour. Kilgour works on such human rights issues as the genocide in Darfur and the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Nazanin Afshin-Jam focused mostly on the “deplorable” state of human rights in Iran where executions are skyrocketing. In an effort to bring an end to executions of minors in the world, Afshin-Jam co-founded a campaign called Stop Child Executions. There are 89 minors on death row in Iran.
She said “we must start a new paradigm, a new way of thinking” in the quest to improve human rights.
Instead of the United
watch : http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/30569/thehour/videos/20071205_jam.wmv