{"id":2104212,"date":"2007-09-21T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=2104212"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:30:54","slug":"its-time-for-change-nazanin-afshin-jam-tells-spiegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/09\/21\/its-time-for-change-nazanin-afshin-jam-tells-spiegel\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;It&#039;s time for change&quot; Nazanin Afshin-Jam tells Spiegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>While in Germany for a speech at&#160;a human rights conference&#160;in Berlin, Nazanin Afshin-Jam was interviewed by Der-<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/img\/0,1020,971084,00.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Spiegel, Europe&#8217;s biggest and most influential weekly magazine,&#160;with a circulation of more than one million per week and&#160;a readership of an estimated 6.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Text in&#160;German: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/0,1518,506366,00.html\">http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/0,1518,506366,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video of part of&#160;interview can be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/videoplayer\/0,6298,21737,00.html\">http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/videoplayer\/0,6298,21737,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the interview Nazanin Afshin-Jam told Spiegel that&#160;many European countries have <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"33\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:C206VbfbN1awtM:http:\/\/www.berlin-partner.de\/uploads\/RTEmagicC_DerSpiegel_Logo_01.jpg.jpg\" width=\"182\" align=\"right\" \/>close trade connections to Iran and are therefore cautious about pointing out the bad Human Rights situation in the country. She added that this kind of appeasement was just as wrong as the&#160;politics of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin in another part of the interviews said that&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.stopchildexecutions.com<\/a> was created to&#160;present the situation of the children&#160;in Iran who are presently facing&#160;executions.&#8221;<em>We want to pressure the Iranian government to put an end to this&#8221;<\/em> she added. This campaign is the further development of a campaign that helped&#160;rescue&#160;the life of an Iranian girl which proved&#160;we can make a difference, if we get together.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE campaign wish to thank&#160;the Germans for the overwhelming numbers of signatures&#160;at the Stop Child Executions Campaign petition and&#160;their emails offering&#160;to help the Stop Child Executions Campaign.&#160;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Germany for a speech at&#160;a human rights conference&#160;in Berlin, Nazanin Afshin-Jam was interviewed by Der-<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/img\/0,1020,971084,00.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Spiegel, Europe&#8217;s biggest and most influential weekly magazine,&#160;with a circulation of more than one million per week and&#160;a readership of an estimated 6.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Text in&#160;German: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/0,1518,506366,00.html\">http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/0,1518,506366,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video of part of&#160;interview can be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/videoplayer\/0,6298,21737,00.html\">http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/videoplayer\/0,6298,21737,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the interview Nazanin Afshin-Jam told Spiegel that&#160;many European countries have <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"33\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:C206VbfbN1awtM:http:\/\/www.berlin-partner.de\/uploads\/RTEmagicC_DerSpiegel_Logo_01.jpg.jpg\" width=\"182\" align=\"right\" \/>close trade connections to Iran and are therefore cautious about pointing out the bad Human Rights situation in the country. She added that this kind of appeasement was just as wrong as the&#160;politics of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin in another part of the interviews said that&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.stopchildexecutions.com<\/a> was created to&#160;present the situation of the children&#160;in Iran who are presently facing&#160;executions.&#8221;<em>We want to pressure the Iranian government to put an end to this&#8221;<\/em> she added. This campaign is the further development of a campaign that helped&#160;rescue&#160;the life of an Iranian girl which proved&#160;we can make a difference, if we get together.<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE campaign wish to thank&#160;the Germans for the overwhelming numbers of signatures&#160;at the Stop Child Executions Campaign petition and&#160;their emails offering&#160;to help the Stop Child Executions Campaign.&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104212"}],"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=2104212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196258,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104212\/revisions\/5196258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}