For Urgent Attention of:UN Human Rights Commission EU Human Rights Commission
International Red Cross
Amnesty international
March 7, 2007-Sweden
Members of the Swedish Parliament and the political party (Folkpartiet Liberalerna) call for the immediate and unconditional release of women’s rights advocates who have been arrested recently by the Iranian official security forces. We hold the Iranian government fully responsible for the well-being of the detainees.
The Islamic Republic, once again, has violated the rights of its citizens under both international and Iranian law. Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right recognized in Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party and legally bound. Ironically, this right to peaceful assembly is even recognized by the regime’s own Constitution (Article 27).
The continuous aggressive, systematic and institutionalized violations of basic rights by the Islamic Republic are isolating the regime further from the international community—an isolation that, ultimately, hurts the most, the Iranian people. We call upon the Iranian leadership to respect the rights of its citizens and to release human rights advocates immediately and unconditionally.

That’s the European version of “liberal,” which on this side of the water is generally translated “conservative.” I haven’t seen a lot of support for the women of Iran from the political class in this country. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have been good, along with, ahem, many bloggers.