Two hundred more have joined the open letter “We are Ashamed”! |
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Press Release
Press Release by the organizers of the open letter to the Baha’i community,
titled, “A century and a half of oppression and silence is enough!”
Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.
(Sa‘di)
Two hundred more have joined
the open letter “We are Ashamed”!
On
With the initial publication of this letter, a period of ten days was set aside so that others wishing to join this growing concern would be able to append their signature to this letter. We are now pleased to publish a more complete list of 267 signatories.
In sharing this list, a few points must be noted:
- Great many emails in support of this open letter have been received. However, only those emails that were deemed to be from sufficiently reliable sources have been included in the present tally.
- A number of political activists, professionals, specialists and other noble and well-meaning individuals have expressed alignment with the open letter and joined the rank of its signatories. Therefore, in addition to “Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists and human rights activists”, these categories of Iranian professionals have also been added to the list.
- Since it was not possible that through email to confirm with all those who signed this letter, a few of the names have been included without such confirmations and solely by relying on the submitted emails.
We are certain that once the existence of such a letter is more broadly promulgated, many concerned citizens in
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