Hundreds of Muslim youth in Accra yesterday took to the streets to demonstrate against what they called the continuous human rights abuses being perpetrated by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The youth are members of a group calling itself the ‘Concerned Muslim Youth’, and has promised to exert pressure on any government that would put the name of Islam into disrepute.
They went ahead to damn other sister Muslim groupings in the country whose members it described as self-seeking individuals who cared for their interests and not that of the Muslim Ummah.
According to them, the on-going torture of innocent people of Iran, particularly women, is an affront to the Islamic religion and to mankind in general.
“They were blindfolded, tortured into conceding to allegations made on them, which are used later as bases for further tortures and executions.
The Evin Prison in Tehran, precisely Ward One, is where this occurs. Mention could be made of Mehrangiz and Shirin Ebadi,” a petition they wrote stated.
The group said the executions of Delara Darabi, Amir Khaleq and Safar Angooti, at a time they had a two-month stay of execution granted by the Judiciary, has raised grave concern in the Muslim world about the wanton disregard for the rule of law.
On press freedom, the petition recalled the detention of some journalists and 25 media practitioners, mostly from the Kalamez Sabz and Eternal-E Meli newspapers.
Chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’, meaning ‘God is Great’, the demonstrators carried placards, some of which read: ‘Islam means peace so Iran must practice Islam’, ‘Ayatollah is not Allah’s representative on earth’, ‘Killing of innocent civilians is Haram’, ‘Respect will of people because it is the will of God’, and ‘Release Journalists’.
By 8.00am, busloads of the demonstrators started arriving from various parts of the national capital. They marched peacefully from the Convention People’s Party (CPP) headquarters area at Asylum Down to the Cultural Consulate of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where a dozen of journalists had already assembled.
The petition, signed by the general secretary, Sheikh Mahama Jalaludeen, further noted: “It could be recalled that the aftermath of the recent elections sparked demonstrations in Iran but the demeanour of the Iranian authorities and the utterances of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini, did nothing but to sanction violence and abuse of innocent citizens who are fighting for what they believed in.
This is an affront to the teachings of Islam.
The group said it is not happy with attempts by the pronouncements of some Shiite clerics in the country, whose aim is to divide Islam in Ghana, and alleged they are being sponsored by the Iranian Government.
Even though officials of the cultural centre failed to receive the petition, the Public Relations Officer of the group, Rasheed Amuda, said it is wrong for the officials to send them away, saying human rights issues are cultural issues.
“Because Iran calls itself and Islamic Republic, everything they do is portrayed to be in the name of the Islam religion. We are a fair-minded group, and we will continue to put pressure on them until they do what is right in the sight of Allah,” he concluded.
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