Narges Foundation:

Issued in protest against the arrest of participants in the memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, a lawyer and human rights defender, the statement brings together— for the first time— the signatures of figures from a wide range of backgrounds: political, civil, and labor activists; members of the cultural and artistic community; journalists; university professors; families of those killed, veterans, and justice-seeking families; former cellmates; women’s rights activists; independent lawyers; those harmed during the Mahsa movement; and student organizations. The signatories call for the immediate and unconditional release of all those detained.

Among the signatories of this statement is a wide range of well-known figures: from artists and cultural activists such as Jafar Panahi, Taraneh Alidoosti, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohammad Rasoulof, Pantea Bahram, Pegah ahangarani, Sohila Golestani, Farzaneh Taheri, Shabnam Farshadjoo, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Mohsen Amiryoussefi, Fardin Khalatbari, Reza Dormishian, Maryam Palizban, Sepideh Farsi, Barbad Golshiri, and Hana Kamkar, to prominent journalists including Elaheh Mohammadi, Niloufar Hamedi, Mina Akbari, Nasim Soltanbeigi, and Lily Farhadpour.

Among the signatories of this statement is a wide range of well-known figures: from artists and cultural activists such as Jafar Panahi, Taraneh Alidoosti, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohammad Rasoulof, Pantea Bahram, Sohila Golestani, Farzaneh Taheri, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Mohsen Amiryoussefi, Fardin Khalatbari, Reza Dormishian, Maryam Palizban, Sepideh Farsi, Barbad Golshiri, Hana Kamkar, Shabnam Farshadjou, and Pegah Ahangarani, to prominent journalists including Elaheh Mohammadi, Niloufar Hamedi, Mina Akbari, Nasim Soltanbeigi, and Lily Farhadpour.

Among the signatories are also notable lawyers such as Abdolfattah Soltani, Amir Salar Davodi, and Dr. Mahmoud Behzadi. Families seeking justice, including Parasto Frouhar, Parisa Pouyandeh, Manzar Zarabi, Atash Shakeri, Shahnaz Akmali, and Monireh Baradaran; feminist and women’s rights activists such as Fatemeh Farhangkhah, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Mansoureh Shojaei, and Shahrzad Mojab; as well as human rights defenders like Shiva Nazar-Ahari and Mahdieh Golrou, have also expressed their support.

Political figures including Nahid Taghavi, Mansoureh Behkish, Naser Mohajer, Sara Siahpour, Farhad Meisami, Parvaneh Salahshouri, Fakhri Mohtashami-Pour, Morteza Alviri, Mahdi Mahmoudian, Siamak Namazi, Abdollah Momeni, Reza Alijani, and Iman Vaghfi, along with student activists such as Fereshteh Toosi, university professors including Touraj Atabaki, Dr. Mohammad Reza Nikfar, Dr. Javad Emami, Dr. Abolfazl Shayan, and Dr. Mohammad Reza Resaei, as well as political prisoners like Saeed Madani, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb, and Mohammad Najafi, are also listed among the signatories.

In addition, former cellmates such as Vida Rabbani, Bahareh Soleimani, Zhila Makvandi, Maryam Mohammadi, Raha Asgarizadeh, Samin Ehsani, and Noushin Jafari; families of martyrs including Asieh Bakri; veterans like Mohammad Bagher Bakhtiar; labor and teacher activists such as Zhila Modares Gorji, Mohammad Habibi, and Esmaeil Abdi; and environmental activists including Sepideh Kashani, Houman Jokar, and Niloufar Biani have also signed and supported this statement.

Beyond a simple protest against one arrest, this statement is a rare sign of unity and shared purpose, cutting across the significant political and intellectual divisions currently fragmenting Iran.

Here is the full statement:

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