Dear colleagues, Let's do something about reinforcing the constructive steps toward democracy in Iran. N. PEtropoulos >From: [log in to unmask] >Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:24:13 EDT >Subject: Fwd: petition against repression in Iran >To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 100 > >Dear Friends, >If you would like to add your name to this petition, please send to: >[log in to unmask] > >in solidarity, >Victor Wallis >Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> >Received: from rly-zb05.mx.aol.com (rly-zb05.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.5]) by air-zb05.mail.aol.com (v73.12) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2000 08:34:23 -0400 >Received: from merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (merhaba.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.130]) by rly-zb05.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2000 08:33:53 -0400 >Received: from localhost by merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA09728; > Fri, 12 May 2000 08:33:52 -0400 (EDT) >Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:33:52 -0400 (EDT) >From: Hamideh Sedghi <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >cc: Hamideh Sedghi <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] >Subject: Final list of signatories (fwd) >Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: MULTIPART/Mixed; BOUNDARY=------------B41C6234A46451A4378A24DE >Content-ID: <[log in to unmask]> >X-Mailer: Unknown > > >Hi Victor: This is the list of those petioners against repression in >Iran. Please pass it on. Thanks Hamideh > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. > Send mail to [log in to unmask] for more info. > > This is the final list of the signatories. > > Please distribute this appeal and the attached list of names as widely > > as you can. > > With best wishes for democracy, peace, and justice in Iran. > > > > As concerned scholars and human rights advocates, we feel > >compelled to express our concern about the recent crackdown on the > >pro-democracy and reform movement in Iran. We appeal to the world > >community and call on all international human rights organizations, > >non-governmental as well as governmental bodies, including the United > >Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, as well as > >individuals who are supportive of democracy, human rights, and civil > >society to protest the > >most recent repression of reform and reformers in Iran. > > An overwhelming majority of the Iranian people has > >demonstrated their support for democracy and reform through three > >national elections in Iran: the presidential election in May 1997, the > >municipal elections in February 1999, and the parliamentary elections in > >February 2000. The ruling minority, however, has been resisting the will > >of the majority by violent and repressive means and by finally resorting > >to a coup-like plot through various overt and covert actions including > >the following: > > > > * The partial annulment of the results of the people's parliamentary > > elections; > > * The closing of 16 pro-reform daily or weekly publications since > > April 23rd. > > * The arrest of several pro-reform journalists, including Mr. Akbar > > Ganji, Mr. Latif Safari, and Mr. Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, and two > > prominent advocates of human/women rights, Ms. Shahla Lahiji, > > director of a publishing house, and Ms. Mehrangiz Kar, lawyer and > > writer, and Ali Afshari, a leader of a major student organization; > > * Public threats of death and violent repression against the > > pro-democracy activists issued by some of the commanders of the > > Revolutionary Guards; > > * Public calls for the murder of reformers by clerics like Abolqasem > > Khazali; > > * The secret trial of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of espionage; > > > > Meanwhile vigilantes and security forces have held hundreds > >of pro-democracy activists and students in prisons since the July 1999 > >violent invasion of universities. The case of serial killers, a great > >threat to the intellectual community as well as to civility and > >individual liberties for all Iranians, remains unresolved. Prisoners of > >conscience like Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam, former Deputy Prime-Minster, who > >enters his 20th year of imprisonment, and reform-minded clerics like > >Abdollah Nuri and Mohsen Kadivar have not been released. We urge the > >authorities in Iran to respect the wishes of the majority, the rule of > >law and human and basic civil rights, release journalists, writers, and > >all other prisoners of conscience. > > > >1. Gelareh Abedi (University of Califronia, Los Angeles, USA) > >2. Nuraddin Abdulmannan (Sudan Human Rights Organization, Washington, > >DC,USA) > >3. Ervand Abrahamian (City University of New York, New York, USA) > >4. Janet Afary (Purdue University, Indiana, USA) > >5. Mahnaz Afkhami (Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Bethesda, > >MD, USA) > >6. Olufemi A. Akinola (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) > >7. Pooya Alaedini (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA). > >8. Kazem Alamdari (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) > >9. Ozgur Basak Alkan (MIT, Massachusetts, MA, USA) > >10. Abbas Alnasrawi (University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA) > >11. Magda M. Al-Nowaihi (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA) > >12. Edward Alpers (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >13. Elaheh Amani (California State University, Fullerton, USA) > >14. Mehdi P. Amineh (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The > >Netherlands) > >15. Alireza Azizi (Amnesty International, Los Angeles Chapter, USA) > >16. Shannon Badiee (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA) > >17. Roksana Bahramitash (Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada) > >18. Ali Banuazizi(Boston College, Boston, MA, USA) > >19. S. Scott Bartchy (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >20. Giulia Barrera (North Western University, Evanston, IL, USA) > >21. Sanjay Basu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, > >USA) > >22. Jane Bayes (California State University, Northridge, USA) > >23. Sohrab Behdad (Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA) > >24. Maziar Behrooz (California State University, San Francisco, USA) > >25. Joel Beinin (Stanford University, Stanford, USA) > >26. Houri Berberian (California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA) > >27. Elizabeth Berry (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA) > >28. Cyrus Bina, (California State University, Fullerton, USA) > >29. Leonard Binder (University of Califronia, Los Angeles) > >30. Paul W. Blank (Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA) > >31. Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY) > >32. Heather Boushey (Research and Policy Development Department, New > >York City Housing Authority, New York, NY) > >33. William M. Brinner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >34. Karen Brodkin (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >35. Don Bustany (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, LA > >Chapter, USA) > >36. Houchang E. Chehabi (Boston University, Boston, Mass., USA) > >37. Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, > >USA) > >38. Jerome W. Clinton (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA) > > > >39. Juan R. I. Cole (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) > >40. Kamran M. Dadkhah (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, > >USA) > >41. Anthony D’Agostino (San Francisco State University, CA, USA) > >42. Carolyne Dennis (University of London, London, UK) > >43. Mangalika de Silva (Social Scientists Association, Colombo, Sri > >Lanka) > >44. Khalil Dokhanchi (University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, WI, > >USA) > >45. William A. Dorman (California State University, Sacramento, > >California, U.S.) > >46. Diana L. Eck (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) > >47. Goudarz Eghtedari (Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA) > > > >48. Abdolreza Eshghi (Bentley College, Massachusetts, USA) > >49. Farideh Farhi (Middle East Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA) > >50. Ramin Farjad, (Stanford University, California, USA) > >51. Nehzat Farnudi (Clinical Psychologist, San Diego, CA, USA) > >52. Mary Felstiner (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >53. Nancy Fernandez (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA) > >54. Nimalka Fernando (Attorney-at-Law, Colombo, Sri Lanka) > >55. Stephen H. Fleck (California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA) > >56. John Foran (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) > >57. Geraldine Friedman (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA) > >58. Nancy Gallagher (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) > >59. Shahin Gerami (Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, > >Missouri, USA) > >60. Elham Gheytanchi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >61. Reza Ghorashi (Stockton College, NJ, USA). > >62. Lauren Gibson (Center for Human Rights and International Justice, > >Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California) > >63. Sherna Berger Gluck (California State University, Long Beach, USA) > >64. Mark J. Goodman (Atkinson College, York University Toronto, Ontario, > >Canada) > >65. William A. Graham (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) > >66. Shahla Haeri (Boston University, Boston, MA, USA) > >67. Sondra Hale (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >68. Gerry Hale (University of Californian, Los Angeles, USA) > >69. Virginia Harper-Ho (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA) > >70. Azer H. Hasret (Journalists Trade Union of Azerbaijan, Baku, > >Azerbaijan) > >71. Amir Hassanpour (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) > >72. Mary Hegland (San Jose State University, CA, USA) > >73. Julie Higbee (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) > >74. Nancy Hormachea (Attorney, Oakland, CA, USA) > >75. Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, > >76. Homa Hoodfar (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada) > >77. Pi-Ching Hsu (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, > >USA) > >78. Amir Hussain (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA) > >79. Mahmood Ibrahim (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, > >USA) > >80. John L. Iskande (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) > >81. Bill Issel (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >82. Ramin Jahanbegloo (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) > >83. Muhammad Athar Javed (Canadian Council for International Peace and > >Security, Ottawa, Canada) > >84. Anne M. Jennings (Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, CA, > >USA) > >85. Miriam Joyce (Purdue University, Calumet, Indiana, USA) > >86. Suad Joseph (American University in Cairo, Egypt) > >87. Menaha Kandasamy (Institute of Social Development, Colombo, Sri > >Lanka) > >88. Deniz Kandiyoti (University of London, London, UK) > >89. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) > >90. Elham Kashefi (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, > >London, UK) > >91. Farnaz Kashefi (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) > >92. Sherry Katz (California State University, San Francisco, CA, USA) > >93. Seema Kazi (Freelance Researcher, New Delhi, India) > >94. Nikki Keddie (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >95. Sherry Keith (San Francisco State University, CA, USA) > >96. Ross A. Kennedy (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >97. Namvar Khalilnaji (Semiconductor Engineer, Sacramento, CA, USA) > >98. Azadeh Kian (Paris 8 University, Paris, France) > >99. Frank I. Kidner (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >100. Katherine Callen King (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, > >USA) > >101. Reza Khatib (Frankfurt University, Hessen, Germany) > >102. Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales > >in Paris) > >103. Andrew Kliman (Pace University, Pleasantville, NY USA) > >104. Stephen Knight (University of California, Hastings College of the > >Law, San Francisco, California, USA) > >105. Habib Ladjevardi (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) > >106. Burton M. Leiser (Pace University, Pleasantville and White Plains, > >New York, USA) > >107. Karen Leonard (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >108. Zachary A. Lomo (?? Cambridge, MA, USA) > >109. Barbara D. Loomis (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >110. Paul K. Longmore (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >111. Marta Lopez Garza (California State University, Northridge, USA) > >112. Ali Akbar Mahdi (Ohio Weslyan University, Ohio, CA) > >113. Majid Maleki (Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) > >114. Susan Maloney (Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >115. Afaf Marsot (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >116. David L. Martin (International Language Institute,Washington, DC > >USA) > >117. Mary Martin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) > >118. Afshin Matin-Asgari (California State University, Long Beach, USA) > >119. Niyazi Mehdi (Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art, Baku, > >Azerbaijan) > >120. Mostafa Mehdizadeh (Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA) > >121. Vugar Mevlan (International Eurasia Press Fund, Baku, Azerbaijan) > >122. Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA) > >123. Ziba Mir-Hosseini (University of London, London, UK) > >124. Guive Mirfendereski (Newton, Massachusetts, USA) > >125. Sharon G. Mijares (Clinical Psychologist, San Diego, CA, USA) > >126. Michelle L. Mitchell (San Francisco State University, CA, USA) > >127. Minoo Moallem, San Francisco State University, CA, USA > >128. Valentine Moghadam (Illinois State University, Normal, USA) > >129. Haideh Moghissi, Atkinson College, York University, Canada > >130. Ali Mohammadi (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Great > >Britain) > >131. Sadie Moinzadeh (Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA) > >132. Shahrzad Mojab (OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) > >133. Jamshid Moori (University of Natal, South Africa) > >134. Sima Motamen-Samadian (University of West Minister, London, UK) > >135. Alireza Mowzooni (California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA) > > > >136. Karen Musalo (University of California, Hastings College of the > >Law, San Francisco, California, USA) > >137. Afsaneh Najmabadi (Columbia University, New York, USA) > >138. Mohamad Navab (UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >139. Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, > >CA, USA) > >140. Emelie Olson (Whittier College, Whittier, CA, USA) > >141. Abdiel Onate (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >142. Arzoo Osanloo (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) > >143. Richard Ottinger (Dean Emeritus, Pace Law School, White Plains, NY, > >USA) > >144. Saeed Paivandi (University of Paris 8, Paris, France) > >145. Mary Pardo (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA) > >146. Kamal Dean Parhizgar (Texas A&M International University, Texas, > >USA) > >147. Misagh Parsa (Dartmouth College) > >148. Trita Parsi (Consultant, Stockholm, Sweden) > >149. Julyana Peard (San Francisco State University, CA, USA) > >150. Sassan Pejhan (Electrical Engineer, Princeton, NJ) > >151. Ismail K. Poonawala (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, > >USA) > >152. Elaheh Povey (University of London, London, UK) > >153. Jane Prather (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA) > >154. Jack Quarter (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) > >155. Shirindokht Radi (San Jose City College, San Jose, CA, USA) > >156. Saeed Rahnema (York University, Toronto, Canada) > >157. D Rahni (Pace University, New York, USA) > >158. Mohammad Rayej (California Department of Water Resources, > >Sacramento, USA) > >159. Yasamin Rostam-Kolayi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) > >160. Fazlollah Rowhani (Center for Freedom of Thought and Expression in > >Iran - Los Angeles,USA) > >161. Karen Sachs (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA > >USA) > >162. Tagi Sagafi-nejd (Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA) > >163. Siamak Salehi (Cincinnati State College, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) > >164. Eliz Sanasarian (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, > >USA) > >165. Homa Sarshar (Freelance Journalist, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >166. Elizabeth Say (California State University, Northridge, USA) > >167. Joseph Schwartz (SUNY - Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA) > >168. Sally Scully (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >169. Mehrab Sedeh (Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon, USA) > >170. Abdollah Payrow Shabani (University of Ottawa, Canada) > >171. Padideh Shafiei (Tufts Dental School, Boston, MA, USA) > >172. Hammed Shahidian (University of Illinois at Springfield, > >Springfield, IL USA) > >173. Sepideh Sheikhavandi (University of California, Los Angeles, > >California, USA) > >174. Mohammad Shekari Yazdi (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria) > >175. Gershon Shafir (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA) > >176. Sholeh Shahrokhi (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) > >177. Rebecca Shereikis (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) > >178. Josephine Shokrian (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >179. Fariba Soltani (Software Engineer, Washington DC, USA) > >180. Tina Stevens (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >181. Layla Tadjpour (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA) > >182. Shahrzad Tadjpour (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >183. Gulia Taghiyeva (Center for Human Rights, Baku, Azerbaijan) > >184. Kamran Talattof (The University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona, USA) > >185. Richard Tapper (University of London, London, UK) > >186. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (Illinois State University, Normal, > >Illinois, USA) > >187. Majid Tehranian (University of Hawaii, Monoa, USA) > >188. Mary Ann Tetreault (Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA) > >189. Nayereh Tohidi (California State University, Northridge, USA) > >190. Jules Tygiel (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >191. Lilly Vallee (San Francisco State University, SF, CA, USA) > >192. Amalia Vasileiadou (John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA, USA) > >193. Sherry Vatter (California State University, Long Beach, USA) > >194. Haleh Vaziri (Political Scientist, Washington, DC) > >195. Linda Walbridge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, > >USA) > >196. Claude Wanis (Writer & Filmmaker, Los Angeles, CA, USA) > >197. Wilson Wanene (Freelance Journalist, Boston, MA, USA) > >198. Susan Weissman (Saint Mary's College of California, Los Angeles, > >CA, USA) > >199. Teresa Williams (California State University, Northridge, CA, USA) > > > >200. Esther B. Wolf (Teacher, Seattle, Washington, USA) > >201. Hamid Zangeneh (Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA) > >202. Eldar E. Zeynalov (Director of Human Rights Center, Azerbaijan) > >203. Shodja Ziaian, (York University, Glendon College, Toronto, Canada) > >204. Marvin Zonis (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA) > >205. Sherifa Zuhur (American University in Cairo, Egypt) > >-- > >Hamid Zangeneh, Ph.D. > >Professor of Economics > >Widener University > >One University Place > >Chester, Pennsylvania 19013 > >United States > >Email: [log in to unmask] > >http://www.muse.widener.edu/~hxz0001/index.htm > >Tel.: 610-499-1140 Fax : 610-499-4614 > > > > >Attachment Converted: "d:\eudora\attach\Fwdpetit.htm" >begin:vcard >n:Zangeneh;Hamid >x-mozilla-html:FALSE >org:Widener University >adr:;;One University Place;Chester;Pennsylvania;19013;United States >version:2.1 >email;internet:[log in to unmask] >title:Professor of Economics >tel;fax:610-499-4614 >tel;home:610-891-0675 >tel;work:610-499-1140 >x-mozilla-cpt:;0 >fn:Zangeneh, Hamid >end:vcard > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%