e-4987 (Foreign affairs)
- Keywords
- Civil and human rights
- Foreign policy
- Iran
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- The Islamic Republic of Iran is using extreme violence to terrorize its political opponents, including the peaceful participants in the "Women Life Freedom" movement;
- The Islamic Republic of Iran has cleared the way to an alarming increase in executions by suspending the rights guaranteed in its own Constitution (Amnesty International reports at least 853 executions in 2023 – 172% more than 2021 – and at least 95 more by March 20, 2024);
- The Islamic Republic of Iran has contravened the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which it ratified in 1975; and
- Canada has since 2007 supported all United Nations (UN) resolutions calling for a global moratorium on executions, with the goal of the universal abolition of the death penalty.
- Open for signature
- May 14, 2024, at 2:38 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 13, 2024, at 2:38 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Brad Redekopp
(Saskatoon West)
September 26, 2024 (Petition No. 441-02633)