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بیانیه نه به "ریزشِ بی‌پاسخ‌گویی" آری به "عدالت و دادخواهی"
متن بیانیه و امضاها
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Statement: No to unaccountable ‘defections’; Yes to justice and accountabil

Statement:

No to unaccountable ‘defections’

Yes to justice and accountability

We, a group of victims of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military, security, and law-enforcement institutions, have for years tied our struggle against this regime to justice-seeking: exposing crimes and repression, working to identify those who carried them out and those who ordered them, and pursuing accountability for perpetrators and human-rights violators.

We believe that justice-seeking is one of the foundational pillars for achieving democracy in Iran. Under international law and the accepted principles of transitional justice, justice-seeking guarantees victims’ inalienable right to the whole truth, to justice through fair trials, and to reparation mechanisms. It must also include processes that ensure repressive and rights-violating structures are dismantled and that past crimes will not be repeated.

In recent months, a growing and troubling trend has emerged within parts of the opposition abroad, described as “rizesh” (“defections”), which in practice amounts to granting immunity to perpetrators and commanders of crimes, as well as to collaborators and those who strengthen the repressive institutions. Proponents of this approach call on members of these institutions—without even disclosing their role in human-rights violations or their knowledge of the structures of crime and repression, and without undergoing any accountability process—to merely declare opposition to the Islamic Republic and either join the opposition abroad, or, for those who remain in Iran, stay in their posts until a “proper time” arrives. This effectively means continuing activities that, depending on their position and role, reinforce the repressive apparatus and perpetuate crimes.

We believe such a trend violates the fundamental, non-negotiable rights of victims and whitewashes these institutions internationally—including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has been designated a terrorist organization in some countries.

While insisting on our rights to truth, justice, and reparations, we categorically oppose this trend. We call on everyone to take concrete action and to make serious and determined use of all available mechanisms so that we can hold accountable not only members of repressive and criminal bodies, but also all those who, under the banner of “rizesh,” help strengthen the international standing of repressive organs—especially the IRGC.

List of signatories:

Arash Azarakhsh — political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Edris Abdi — filmmaker; in exile due to political/civic activities
Arsalan Yar-Ahmadi — in exile due to political activities
Esmaeil Abdi — political prisoner; in exile due to civic activities
Elen Radin — LGBTQ+ activist; in exile due to political activities
Anvar Mirestari — dismissed mathematics teacher and political refugee due to political/philosophical beliefs
Benyamin Farnam — filmmaker and writer; in exile due to political activities
Behrouz Asadi — human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Behrouz Khosravi — leftist political activist
Behnam Daraeizadeh — lawyer in exile, journalist, and human-rights researcher; in exile due to political/civic activities
Parviz Jabari — activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Parviz Lashari — Baloch political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Parisa Pouyandeh — justice-seeking activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Parinaz Parto — women’s-rights political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Tooba Kamangar — political activist; former political prisoner; bereaved family member
Teymour Eliasi — director, Kurdistan Human Rights Association (Zhina); in exile due to political activities
Jamileh Nadaei — filmmaker; women’s-movement activist; in exile due to political activities
Hassan Dai — political activist and researcher; in exile due to political activities
Hassan Golzari — imprisoned in the 1980s; in exile due to political activities
Khalil Abiat — LGBTQ+ community activist; in exile due to political activities
Diako Moradi — journalist and human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Diyan Ahmadian — trade-union activist and family counselor; in exile due to political/civic activities
Rahman Saki — political prisoner; human-rights and justice-seeking activist; in exile due to political activities
Reza Azmoudeh — justice-seeking and political activist; bereaved family member; in exile due to political/civic activities
Reza Akvanian — journalist and human-rights activist; former political prisoner; in exile due to political/civic activities
Reza Haji-Hosseini — journalist; in exile due to social and civic activities
Reza Rashidi — labor activist; former political prisoner; in exile due to political/civic activities
Raha Ajoudani — queer human-rights activist; former political prisoner
Zhila Omrani — political activist and human-rights activist
Zhila Mostajer — human-rights activist; in exile due to political activities
Setareh Soheili — artist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Sahar Bahar — leftist political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Solmaz Azad — LGBTQ+ activist; in exile due to political activities
Sohrab Rahmati — lawyer and target of the Islamic Republic’s assassination apparatus (failed attempt); former political prisoner; in exile due to political/civic activities
Sousan Rakhsh — sociologist and researcher on women and civil movements; in exile due to political activities
Sirus Malekouti — composer and musician / journalist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Simin Esfahani — political and women’s-movement activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Simin Sabri — political activist; in exile due to political activities
Shadi Amin — writer and researcher; in exile due to political activities
Shadi Sadr — jurist; in exile due to civic activities
Shahrzad Arshadi — photographer and artist; in exile due to political activities
Shahnaz Moratteb — from the justice-seeking families of the Ukraine flight; political activist
Shokat Mohammadi — imprisoned in the 1980s; in exile due to political activities
Shirzad Salehiyan — journalist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Shima Mehrani — human-rights researcher
Shiva Mahbobi — Women's right, and freedom of political prisoner activist, former political prisoner
Sanam Dolatshahi — journalist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Tooba Moloudi — former political prisoner; bereaved family member
Abbas Bakhtiari — bereaved family member; political prisoner; in exile due to political activities
Abdollah Aref — human-rights activist focused on Baluchistan; in exile due to political activities
Abeh Seyed Moradi — leftist political activist; bereaved family member
Aziz Mamli — jurist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Ali (Esfandiar) Javid — republican-left political activist; former political prisoner; in exile due to political activities
Ali Kamrani — lyricist, actor, and socio-political activist
Isa Baziar — writer and human-rights activist; in exile due to political activities
Fazel Mousavi — political activist; bereaved family member
Fatemeh Pishdadian — from the bereaved families of the 1980s
Fatemeh Rezaei — in exile due to political activities
Ferdows Dini — women’s-rights activist; in exile due to political activities
Farnaz Davari — LGBTQ+ activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Farhad Majidzadeh — political activist on ethnic and gender-minority issues; former political prisoner
Fariba Borhanzehi — human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Fariba Baloch — political activist in the field of ethnic and gender minorities
Fariba Rad — human-rights activist and former political prisoner; in exile due to political/civic activities
Fariba Mohammadi — human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Fariborz Pouya — political activist and researcher; in exile due to political/civic activities
Farideh Razavi — graphic artist and painter; women’s-movement activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Kazem Majdam — political activist; former political prisoner
Kambiz Ghafouri — journalist; in exile due to political activities
Kaveh Ahangari — political activist in exile; bereaved family member
Keyvan Rasouli — human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Ladan Bazargan — former political prisoner; bereaved family member
Leila Tarighi — jurist and bereaved family member
Mohammad Asangaran — political activist; in exile due to political activities
Mohammad Amin Naami — political activist; former political prisoner; bereaved family member; injured in protests
Mohammad Mohammadi — journalist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Mohammad Hoshi — political prisoner in the 1980s; in exile due to political activities
Mohammadreza Ashough — escaped the 1988 Dezful firing squad; justice-seeking complainant and witness; former political prisoner; political activist
Maryam Namazi — political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Mostafa Kamali — labor activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Malek Ghaderi — political activist; People’s Party of Baluchistan
Maliheh Hayati — political activist and former political prisoner; in exile due to political/civic activities
Melika Zar — LGBTQ+ rights activist and political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Mansour Zand — leftist political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Mehdi Mojtahedpour — political activist; former political prisoner; in exile due to political activities
Mehrdad Ahangar — political activist; in exile due to political activities
Mahin Shekaralepour — political and women’s-rights activist; former political prisoner; bereaved family member; in exile
Mahin Farahbakhsh — bereaved family member; in exile due to political activities
Mina Ahadi — political activist; in exile due to political activities
Mina Khani — human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Minu Humeili — former political prisoner; political activist; in exile
Nasrin Nekoubakht — former political prisoner; in exile
Nezam Moloudi — from a family of the executed; political activist
Naimeh Doostdar — journalist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Negin Shiraghaei — democracy and human-rights activist; in exile due to political/civic activities
Nikahang Kowsar — freedom-of-expression and environmental activist
Victoria Azad — political activist and analyst; bereaved family member; in exile due to political/civic activities
Homa Moradi — in exile due to political activities; feminist / independent leftist
Elahe Sadr — queer-feminist activist; in exile due to political activities
Heyman Sidi — political activist; in exile due to political activities
Yasin Ahvazi — Arab political activist; in exile due to political/civic activities

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