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Paris – September 21 – An International Moral Court, Paris Tribunal, initiated by the Iranian Action Committee will bring together an unprecedented group of prominent legal experts, scholars, diplomats and human rights advocates in Paris this week to hear witnesses, document and investigate the clerical regime of Iran on its crimes against humanity.

Only the second of its kind in history, "the Paris Tribunal will document for the international community the Islamic Republic’s serial and systematic abuse of human rights against the Iranian people” said Dr. Manouchehr Ganji, himself a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights.

According to Dr. Ganji, as the most active state sponsor of international terrorism, Iran’s ruling regime has, for more than two decades, suppressed, violated and terrorized citizens of Iran. To date, it has summarily killed more than 200,000; tortured, maimed, stoned to death thousands more; made to disappear and assassinated numerous others, at home and abroad; and currently incarcerates, by its own account, more than 600,000 in Iranian prisons.

“The Paris Tribunal, by hearing from the immediate families of those killed and from many tortured victims of the Iranian Regime, will attempt to arouse the global conscience and seek to shame governments and multinationals into taking actions in support, and not against, the people of Iran," said Dr. Ganji.

The Paris Tribunal will be seated between September 23-25, 2004 at the Paris Hilton La Defense, and will hold hearings and receive testimony from expert witnesses and actual victims of human rights abuses by the Iranian regime. In judicious and impartial performance of its function, the Paris Tribunal has formally delivered notice to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Paris, to send official representatives to also take part in its deliberations.

Members of the Paris Tribunal, Moral Court, are individuals from nine different countries with impeccable international respectability with authority on matters of human rights, international law and public diplomacy. At the conclusion of its three days initial session, the Paris Tribunal will report its findings and recommendations to the international community.

The Paris Tribunal is a creation and product of the Committee to Pursue the International Crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran (www.iricrimes.org), a 27 member Committee of Iranians of all political stripes and professional orientations currently living in exile. Its funding comes exclusively from contributions of Iranians at home and abroad.

The founding organizer of the Committee to Pursue the International Crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran is Dr. Manouchehr Ganji a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights. He is a former Minister of Education of Iran, former Dean of Law School at Tehran University and is Secretary-General of the Organization for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for Iran.

The impetus for the creation of the International Moral Court on Iran was born in 2002 – when the United Nations Commission on Human Rights surreptitiously dropped the post of Special Representative on Violations of Human Rights in Iran. This appeasing act was the result of actions by certain member states of the world body that chose to pursue short term commercial, oil and gas, interests with Tehran.