forum on iran

Iran - fundamentalism, terrorism and world crisis

A forum at the Jubillee Room, NSW Parliament, Monday Nov 21, 3-5pm.

Host: Dr Meredith Burgmann MLC

Speakers:     Peter Murphy, Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition

                    Ms Nina burridge, National President, Australian Democrats

                    Ray Jackson, Indigenous Social Justice Association

                    Dr Jocelyn Scutt, writer and lawyer

                    Dr Meredith Burgmann MLC

• On November 24, the International Atomic Energy Agency will meet in Vienna and review its September decision to refer Tehran to the UN Security Council because of its nuclear weapons program. In the same week the US State Department will review its terrorist listing of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, the democratic opposition party which exposed the nuclear weapons program in 2002.
• According to Amnesty International in its report on March 2004, the Iranian government has the second highest rate of executions in the world.
• 120,000 executions on political grounds - victims include pregnant women, elderly women and schoolchildren.
• 30,000 political prisoners massacred in 1988.
• Over 170 forms of physical and spychologicl torture.
• 800,000 people jailed each yer.
• Stoning, hanging in public, eye gouging, amputation of fingers, hands and legs, beheading, and flogging in public carried out as 'punishment'.
• Suppression of religious and ethnic minorities.
• 450 terrorist operations around the world, including bombings, hijackings abductions and assassinations.
• 474 public executions were announced in 2002 - a 50% rise compared with 2001.

Organised by the the Association to Defend Freedom and Human Rights in Iran - Australia, PO Box 73, Mortdale NSW 2223: freedomdefend2000@yahoo.com.au

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 15 2005
IRAN - FUNDAMENTALISM, TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR CRISIS
5 - 7pm
A Forum at the Qld Parliament, The Dan Deer Room, Level 5, Parliamentary Annex

Chaired by Senator Bartlett

Speakers: Ian Rentoul (From Refugee Action Coalition)
Dr Jocelyyn A Scutt (Barrister and writer)
Mr Peter Murphy (Coordinator of Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition)
Ms Fredrika Steen (Romero Centre)
Terry Fisher (Solicitor)

Organized by the Association to Defend Freedom and Human Rights in Iran – Australia

Further information: freedomdefend2000@yahoo.com.au