Nine Nobel Peace Prize winners declared their support for the weekly hunger strike against the death penalty by prisoners in Iran, announced Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist on Instagram on September 30.
Their letter stated: “We, the signatories of this statement, declare our support for the campaign against executions on Tuesdays and call for an end to this inhumane punishment in Iran.”
Bottom row: Oscar Arias, Kailash Satyarthi, Tawakkol Karman, Rigoberta Menchú, and Maria Ressa.
Both Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams are also signatories of the IEC's Emergency Appeal : The Lives of Iran’s Political Prisoners Hang in the Balance—We Must ACT Now.
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