We strongly condemn the acid attacks on women in Iran!

The recent acid attacks on women in Isfahan are the latest incidents of the systematic backward and inhuman attacks against women in Iran. Experience shows that where the Iranian regime fails in its attempts to make women stay at home by legislation, it resorts to such outrageous behaviour. The Islamic Republic has tried, from the start of its establishment, to legislate discriminatory policies against women and has used the most inhuman tactics to put them into practice. Evidence also shows that women have been victims of the misogynousattitudes of the ruling clique and their hunger for power.

The failure of the regime's repressive policies and assaults on women to bring about the practice of veiling by force and its desperation underlie such horrible crimes. The recent events, such as forced segregation of civic workers, the announcement by motorcyclist thugs of their readiness to enforce compulsory veiling, provocative language by MPs and explicit threats by Imams and ayatollahs are some of the examples of the regime’s strategy to force women back home.

During the past thirty five years of Islamic rule, women have been fighting against fundamentalist laws and various forms of discrimination and have tried hard to protect their rights in very dire situations. They are still standing firm and will continue to do so. We are sure that they will come through the current hard and inhuman episode as well.

Support from the concerned and sympathetic male members of society helps to move on from this situation faster. The involvement of the large number of men in the past few days protests shows their solidarity with women.

We the undersigned strongly condemn acid attacks on women, and demand the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators and instigators of these crimes. We ask all human rights campaigners, organisations and international bodies to support us and speak up against these inhuman attacks in Iran.

Signatories:

Signatories:

Abigel Amoo

Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, USA

Ahmad Raafat

Akbar Karimian, UK

Ali Arjomand, USA

Ali Matin-Daftary, UK

Ali Naybi, USA

Alireza Rashidi, UK

Ameneh Bamedi, Germany

Amir dargipour

Amir Nasim, UK

Anvar Mirsetari

Arman Shirazi, USA

Asghar Jilow, UK

Asmar Memari, Sweden

Ayar Atar, UK

Azadeh Bagherzadeh, UK

Azadeh Shafiee, UK

Azin Izadifar, USA

Aziz Anzabi

behrouz Sotoodeh

Bijan Naderi-USA

Bijan Sina, Germany

Chawra Makaremi

Chiao Hui Tu

Danesh Bagherpour,Germany

Djavad khadem, UK

Efat Mahbaz, UK

Efat Rezaei, Germany

Elahe Amani, USA

Elahe Sadr, Germany

Elahe Shokerai, Canada

Elham Malekpoor, Poland

Esmat Vatanparast, Sweden

Esmail Khoi, UK

F. Kazemian, UK

Farah Kamangar, Germany

Faramerz Dadvar

Farhad Ghani, Canada

Farhad Mahdavi, UK

Fariba Mohammadi, Kurdistan

Farid ashcan

Farideh Pourabdollah, USA

Farkhondeh Sabi, UK

Farshid Ariyan

Fatemeh Rezaei, Germany

Fathieh Zarkesh Yazdi, UK

Fereydoon Ahmadi, Germany

Geti Salamy, Germany

Halaleh Taheri, UK

Hamid Armande, USA

Hamid Jahanbakhsh

Hamid Sabi, UK

Hamila Nissgilli, Germany

Hasan Makaremi

Hassan Massali, USA

Haydeh Ravesh, UK

Homa Khodadoust, USA

Homayoun Mobasseri, USA

Hossein Bagherzadeh, UK

Hossein Shariatmadari, Germany

Ilia Malekzadeh

Iraj Karimi

James Chiriyankandath, UK

Jamileh Nedai, France

K. Alvand

K. Daneshyar

Kaveh Beheshti Zadeh

Karim Shambayati, Germany

Khadij Moghaddam, Germany

Kianoosh Sanjari

Kourosh Sehhati, USA

Ladan Boroumand, USA

Lale Norroozi

Leila Aslan, Germany

Leonardo Raafat, Italy

M. Izadpanah

Mahan Heidary, UK

Mahin Khadivi, USA

Mahin Shokrolahpoor, France

Mahmoud Tadjallimehr, Germany

Mahoud Naraghi

Mahshid Pegahi, Germani

Mana Amir

Manijeh Mirmokri

Manouchehr Dadfar, UK

Mansour Osanlo

Mansoureh Khosrowshahi, Iran

Mansoureh Shojaee, Poland

Maral Shafafy

Maryam Namzie

Maryam Safari

Mehdi Kharrazi, Austria

Mehdi Pour Hashem

Mehdi Vaziri,Germany

Mehdi Zolfaghari, USA

Mehrab Zarin, Dero, USA

Mehrdad Esfandiari

Mehrdad Khoshrang

Mehrdad Darvidhpour

Mehrnaz Khamesh

Merlinda Baji, UK

Milad malek, Holland

Mino Hemati

Misagh Parsa,USA,

Mohamad Nafissi, UK

Mohammad Alahmad USA

Mohsan Najafi- UK

Mohsen Sazegara, USA

Mojgan Rad, UK

Mojdeh Rad,

Mojdeh Ebrahimi, Germany

Monireh Baradaran, Germany

Nadar Forouzi

Nahid Bahmani, UK

Nahid Husseini, UK

Nahyeh Khoshkalam, Germany

Nastaran Samei, USA

Nima Raafat,Italy

Nushin Nazemi

P. Heydari

Pardis Shafafi

Pari KaramLoie, Italy

Partow Nooriala, USA

Parvin Ardalan

Parvin Ashrafi

Parvin Shahbazy, Poland

parviz Mokhtari

Payam Akhavan, Canada

Peyman Ferydouni

Ramin Parham

Reyhane Esmaeli, UK

Reza akrami, Paris

Reza Gooharzad, USA

Rezvan Moghaddam, Germany

Rojan Feyz USA

Roya Pazooki, USA

Roya Toloui, USA

Runak Behnam

S. Dastar

Saba Khoi, UK

Saeed Ohadi

Samer Shams

Samnak Aghaiy

sangar Reza

Sasan Ahmadi

Sepideh Hadad

Shahab Mehrnami

Sahar Dinarwand, UK

Shahla Abghari USA

Shahnaz Gholami, France

Shahram Aghdasi

Shahran Tabari, UK

Shahryar Ahy, Sweden

Shamzin Jihani, Belgium

Shikofeh Ghobadi, Sweden

Shila Ziarati, France

Shirindokht Nourmanesh, USA

Shiva cooper, UK

Shler Shebli,Norway

Shokooh Mirzadegi, USA

Shokoufeh Sakhi

Siavash Abghari, USA

Silvia Zangrilli, Italy

Silvija Gorelconok aite

Sima khashe, USA

Sima Motamen-Samadian, UK

Sima Vatan

Simin Nasrolahi, Fenland

Simin Yahaghi,

Sirus Malakooty

Sodabeh Gashtasebi

Soghra Zare, USA

Sonia Shakerly

Sonja Sina, Germany

Soraya Fallah ,USA

Susan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand, France

Tahmineh Gashtasebi, UK

Trouska Sadeghi, Kurdistan

Vahab Davari

Zanij Noruzi

Zara Agharezaei