A Petition Against the Government-Sponsored Violence in Iran

A Petition Against the Violence in Iran

We, the undersigned scholars, academics and writers around the world, are concerned about the human rights crisis in Iran. We request the United Nations to condemn the current coup d’état and support Iranians in their demand for a fair and democratic election. Deeply worried by the reports of Iranian paramilitary groups and security forces firing upon and arresting peaceful civilian demonstrators, we demand that the international community act now to prevent further violence and bloodshed. We call on the government of Iran to respect and uphold the right to peaceful protest. We call upon democratic institutions and organizations around the world to condemn government-sponsored violence against peaceful Iranian protesters. We also call on governments around the world to ask the UN Secretary General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Human Rights Council to appoint a UN special commission to monitor the post-election situation in Iran and to inform the Security Council about the arbitrary arrest and detention of student activists and leading reformists in Iran.

Mohammed Abed
Guliano Amato
Dora Apel
David E. Apter
Andrew Arato
John Atlas
Etienne Balibar
Joanne Barkan
Zygmunt Bauman
Mark Beissinger
Daniel A. Bell
Seyla Benhabib
Michael Berlin
Sheri Berman
Richard Bernstein
Michael Bérubé
Norman Birnbaum
Casey Nelson Blake
Giancarlo Bosetti
Ken Brociner
David Bromwich
Daniel Brook
Luther P. Carpenter
Jean Cohen
Charles W. Collier
George Cotkin
Giorgio De Michelis
Jane Dailey
Neil Denny
Andrew Ian Dodge
Michael Doyle
Max Dunbar
Ellen DuBois
Marc Edelman
Cynthia Epstein
Edward Evans
Henry Farrell
Giulio Ferroni
Nina zu Fürstenberg
Nancy Fraser
Vera Frenkel
Manuel Anonio Garreton
Kathleen Gerson
Gary L. Gerstle
Brian Gilbert
Todd Gitlin
Fabian L. Glagovsky
Judith L. Goldstein
Eugene Goodheart
Linda Gordon
Jeanie Gosline
Linda Grant
Alan Greenberg
Mark Greif
Murray Hausknecht
Agnes Heller
Patrick Heller
Gur Hirshberg
Jennifer Hochschild
John Holzrichter
Maurice Isserman
Noah Isenberg
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Angel Jaramillo
James Johnson
Michael Katz
Michael Kazin
Alejandro Ribo Labastida
Shalom Lappin
Daniel Larner
Jeremy Larner
Jesse Larner
Mark Levinson
Jonathan Lipnick
Steven Lukes
Kanan Makiya
Jeff Madrick
David Marcus
Avishai Margalit
Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Jake Marmer
Giacomo Marramao
Andrew Martin
Guido Martinotti
Kevin Mattson
Deborah Meier
Michael Meranze
Harold Meyerson
S.M. Miller
Nicolaus Mills
Jo-Ann Mort
Olivier Mongin
Andrew Murphy
Ashis Nandy
Martha Nussbaum
George Packer
John Palubiski
Ilene Philipson
Maxine Phillips
Ruben Pulido
Wes Ramsay
Eric Reeves
Phillip Richards
Corey Robin
Ben Ross
Marco Roth
Lillian Rubin
James Rule
Richard Sandbrook
Henry Shue
Alan Sommerstein
Buzz Spector
Jerome Slater
Christine Stansell
Judith Stein
Charles Taylor
Ruy Teixeira
Kay Trimberger
Evan Tucker
Adrian Tysoe
Inna Tysoe
Salvatore Veca
Felix de Villiers
Judith B. Walzer
Michael Walzer
Paul Wapner
Jeff Weintraub
Michael Weiss
Jon Wiener
Melissa Williams
Richard Wolin
Susan Wright