در خصوص اعطای پناهندگی به سکینه آشتیانی

To: Honourable Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President of Brazil

Honourable Mr President,

On 6th of March 2010, we requested that the Brazilian government pay attention to the suppression of human rights in Iran.

We are glad that you are seriously focusing on the situation of human rights in our country. Your courageous and unprecedented offer to grant asylum to Mrs. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who is threatened with the death penalty without having received a fair trial, on charges that the civilised world does not regard as justifying any prosecution, is more than a symbolic move in the defence of the human rights in Iran. We hope that your attitude in this matter will convince other governments throughout the world that the international community is able to protect people persecuted by dictatorships. We are especially grateful that this gesture comes from the President of Brazil, who cannot be denounced as an “enemy of the Islamic Republic” by the Iranian rulers.

Mr. President,

As we wrote in our letter to you in March: “The Iranian people will finally overcome tyranny and dictatorship. What will survive is the friendship of our nation with other peoples who have supported the Iranians' fight for freedom.”

Sincerely Yours,

Organisation of Iranian People’s Fadaian (Majority)
Political and Executive Committee

Behruz Khaligh