{"id":1802649,"date":"2007-05-30T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T08:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=1802649"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:40:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:40:53","slug":"former-political-prisoner-supporting-petition-to-stop-child-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/05\/30\/former-political-prisoner-supporting-petition-to-stop-child-executions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former political prisoner supporting petition to stop child executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Among the growing supporters of the Stop Child Executions who have signed the SCE petition is AmirAbbas Fakhravar , journalist, author and former political prisoner of conscious in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE campaign&#160;apprecaite&#160;Mr. Fakhravr&#8217;s&#8217;&#160;support of&#160;the Stop Child Executions campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/news_details.asp?NewsID=15199\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AmirAbbas Fakhravar<\/strong><\/a> (&#160;<span xml:lang=\"fa\" lang=\"fa\"><strong>\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0631 \u0639\u0628\u0627\u0633 \u0641\u062e\u0631\u0622\u0648\u0631<\/strong><\/span>&#160;)&#160; is an Iranian writer, activist and former journalist for the now banned pro-reform <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"141\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeo.blog.com\/repository\/802949\/2036181.jpg\" height=\"220\" style=\"width: 141px; height: 220px\" \/>daily newspapers. While in Iran he called for&#160;constitutional referendum to rescind the powers of the Supreme Leader and Council of Guardians. After prior imprisonments on new years eve of 2000, AmirAbbas was&#160;taken from his home&#160;to the Evin prison and tortured heavily until he had to be transferred to&#160;hospital in Tehran for emergency treatment.&#160; Fakhravar had been imprisoned in Iran for his political activism 19 times, with his first experience at the age of 17,&#160;when he was still in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhravar entered United Stated in April 2006. Since then he has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/i16.tinypic.com\/2zgc8jp.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">met<\/a> president Bush, many others in US government and also has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hsgac.senate.gov\/audio_video\/072006video.ram\" rel=\"noopener\">testified<\/a> in the US congress.&#160;Fakhravar is the founder of the Iranian Freedom Movement&#160;and&#160;is also the chairman of the Independent student movement.<\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"1\">AmirAbbas Fakhravar&#160;while in prison.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the growing supporters of the Stop Child Executions who have signed the SCE petition is AmirAbbas Fakhravar , journalist, author and former political prisoner of conscious in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE campaign&#160;apprecaite&#160;Mr. Fakhravr&#8217;s&#8217;&#160;support of&#160;the Stop Child Executions campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/news_details.asp?NewsID=15199\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AmirAbbas Fakhravar<\/strong><\/a> (&#160;<span xml:lang=\"fa\" lang=\"fa\"><strong>\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0631 \u0639\u0628\u0627\u0633 \u0641\u062e\u0631\u0622\u0648\u0631<\/strong><\/span>&#160;)&#160; is an Iranian writer, activist and former journalist for the now banned pro-reform <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"141\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeo.blog.com\/repository\/802949\/2036181.jpg\" height=\"220\" style=\"width: 141px; height: 220px\" \/>daily newspapers. While in Iran he called for&#160;constitutional referendum to rescind the powers of the Supreme Leader and Council of Guardians. After prior imprisonments on new years eve of 2000, AmirAbbas was&#160;taken from his home&#160;to the Evin prison and tortured heavily until he had to be transferred to&#160;hospital in Tehran for emergency treatment.&#160; Fakhravar had been imprisoned in Iran for his political activism 19 times, with his first experience at the age of 17,&#160;when he was still in high school.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhravar entered United Stated in April 2006. Since then he has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/i16.tinypic.com\/2zgc8jp.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">met<\/a> president Bush, many others in US government and also has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hsgac.senate.gov\/audio_video\/072006video.ram\" rel=\"noopener\">testified<\/a> in the US congress.&#160;Fakhravar is the founder of the Iranian Freedom Movement&#160;and&#160;is also the chairman of the Independent student movement.<\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"1\">AmirAbbas Fakhravar&#160;while in prison.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196416,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802649\/revisions\/5196416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}