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UK - LONDON VIGILS IN SOLIDARITY WITH MOURNING MOTHERS OF IRAN

 

The London Mourning Mothers of Iran stand every first Saturday of the month in Trafalgar Square to show solidarity with the mothers of political prisoners and those murdered by the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979. London, UK.

 

 

London Mourning Mothers group (LalehPark) stand in a vigil of solidarity with Iranian mothers in Trafalgar Squarecalling for the relese of jailed political prisoners in Iran.

 

7 January 2012 -The London Mourning Mothers of Iran stand every first Saturday of the month inTrafalgar Square to show solidarity with the mothers of political prisoners andthose murdered by the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979. London, UK.07/01/2012

The Mothers of Laleh Park (formerly known as the Mourning Mothers of Iran)are women whose children were killed or imprisoned after the 2009 Iranianelection, when the regime began a crackdown on members of the opposition. Theyhave carried out a series of protests in Laleh Park in central Tehran and otherlocations to bring attention to these injustices.

Those in jail include Parvin Mokhtare, mother of the imprisoned human rightsactivist Kouhyar Goudarzi, a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporterswho was jailed for a year in December 2009. In November 2010 she sent a messageto the National Press Club (USA) who had awarded Gourdazi with their JohnAuchobon Award for press freedom, thanking them for the award which shededicated "to the green and great nation of Iran, to Argentinian mothers,Palestinian mothers, patient mothers of Iran, especially the mother of Neda AghaSoltan, mother of Sohrab Arabi, mother of Mohsen Rooholamini, mother of KianoushAsa, and all mothers of imprisoned, but free-spirited, political prisoners ofIran."

Gourdarzi was arrested again last July, and his mother a few days later. Shehas been sentenced to 23 months in jail apparently because of media interviewsshe gave about her son.

Several other members of the mothers group have also been given jailsentences and others threatened and interrogated for calling for the release ofpolitical prisoners, the abolition of the death sentence and the trail of thosewho have ordered the killings of the last 30 years.

Around 20 people, mainly women, but including some men and children came tothe protest in Trafalgar Square today, standing quietly around their displayholding posters and giving out postcards about the Mothers of LalehPark.