ABF participates in Amnesty International 50th Year Birthday Celebration in Dallas
ABF was pleased to be invited to participate in the 50th year birthday celebration of Amnesty International in Dallas, Texas on September 15, 2011. At the event, ABF staff had the opportunity to meet Mr. Larry Cox, the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, and Professor Rick Halpern, Program Director of the Embrey Human Rights Program at Southern Methodist University, among other human rights advocates.
At the event, the ABF Interrupted Lives documentary was screened, which tells of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s violent oppression of students and puts the political unrest in Iran in a historic perspective. ABF also showed a student slideshow, which is drawn from a list of more than 1,600 executed high school and university students in the Omid Memorial and from ABF’s list of more than 11,000 students punished or intimidated by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary, security and paramilitary forces, university disciplinary committees, and ideological and political bureaus.
ABF collected signatures for the petition to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader demanding that students are released from prison and that Iran’s authorities stop punishing students for trying to demand their human rights, and collected letters written to students in prison in Iran who have been arbitrarily detained for voicing their opinion.
For more information about the event, please visit the SMU Meadows School of Arts write-up of the event.
ABF staff and Amnesty International USA Executive Director Larry Cox.
The "Interrupted Lives" student slideshow is displayed at the SMU Amnesty International event.
ABF staff and volunteers (Kyle Berkemeier and Rama Mohtadi) participate in the Amnesty International event at SMU.
SMU Professor Halprin speaks at the Amnesty International 50th year celebration.
ABF volunteer Rama Mohtadi shows the "Interrupted Lives" documentary at the SMU Amnesty International anniversary celebration.
