Over 300 Global Figures and NGOs Urge UN Action to Stop Executions of Political Prisoners in Iran

Iran HRM – In a collective appeal, Iran HRM joins 309 international figures — including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former diplomats, legal professionals, NGOs, and human rights organizations — to call on the United Nations to take immediate action to prevent a new wave of politically motivated executions in Iran. The signatories strongly condemned the Iranian regime’s intensified campaign targeting political prisoners and urged urgent UN intervention to halt the state-sanctioned killings.

The following is the full text of the statement:

Execution Spree in Iran and Confirmation of Death Sentences for Activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani

We, the undersigned international experts and NGOs, unequivocally condemn the Iranian authorities’ escalating campaign of politically motivated executions. These acts represent a grave assault on human rights and a deliberate strategy to suppress dissent.

Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, are in imminent danger after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences and turned down their request for judicial review. Their charges include “membership in the PMOI/MEK”, “propaganda” in support of the organisation, “preparing and sending videos to the organisation”, all of which are defined in the regime’s legal system as “enmity against God,” and “corruption on earth.” Their kangaroo trial on 10 August 2024, lasting just five minutes, was a travesty of justice: they were denied legal counsel for nearly two years, tortured, and silenced during proceedings. Allegations of torture—including beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, and threats against their families—were ignored.

We demand an immediate halt to their execution. The international community must not remain silent.

Dozens of political prisoners, including Abolhassan Montazer, Akbar Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani Amerian, Pakhshan Azizi, Verisheh Moradi, and Sharifeh Mohammadi, face imminent execution following grossly unfair trials. Several have been forcibly transferred to Qezel Hesar Prison, a notorious execution site. Since President Masoud Pezeshkian assumed office in August 2024, over 1,000 executions have been carried out, targeting women, juvenile offenders, ethnic and religious minorities, and dissidents in a calculated effort to prevent a renewed uprising and crush demands for democratic change.

The Iranian authorities’ systematic targeting of political prisoners is rooted in a culture of impunity, fuelled by the failure to hold perpetrators accountable for past atrocities. This was documented in the July 2024 landmark Atrocity Crimes report by UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Prof. Javaid Rehman, which found that the 1981-82 mass killings and the 1988 massacre constituted crimes against humanity and genocide. No Iranian official has been held accountable for these atrocities; instead, the perpetrators have been promoted to the highest levels in the government, judiciary, and security apparatus.

Iran’s crackdown on political prisoners flagrantly violates international human rights law, including the rights to a fair trial and freedom from torture. The courage of prisoners like Ehsani and Hassani, reflected in their participation in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strikes, staged in more than 40 prisons in Iran every week since January 2024, underscores their defiance against such brutality.

We stand in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners and their families and are committed to amplifying their voices until justice is achieved.

We welcome the European Parliament’s 3 April 2025 resolution, condemning the death sentences for Ehsani and Hassani, and the UN Special Rapporteur’s 6 February 2025 letter to the Iranian authorities, warning against the violation of their rights.

We urgently call upon the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, all relevant UN Special Procedures, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI), and all democratic governments to intervene to halt these executions.

We encourage the international community to identify and sanction Iranian officials responsible for human rights violations, and to make the abolition of the death penalty and the release of political prisoners a condition for improving relations with Iran.

Co-Signatory NGOs

SIGNED:

1. Judge Sang-Hyun Song – (South Korea): President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2009-2015)

2. Navi Pillay – (South Africa): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014)

3. Amb. Joachim Rücker – (Germany): President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015); Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN in Geneva (2014-2016)

4. Lord Alton of Liverpool – (United Kingdom): Chair, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR); Member of the House of Lords

5. Dr. Mark Ellis – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA); former Chair of the UN Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals

6. Tahar Boumedra – (United Kingdom): President, Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI); former Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office and Representative of the HCHR in Iraq

7. Prof. William A. Schabas – (Canada): Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict (2014-2015); President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009-2011); Professor of international law at Middlesex University in London

8. Oleksandra Matviichuk – (Ukraine): 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

9. Jody Williams – (United States): 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

10. President Oscar Arias Sánchez – (Costa Rica): Former President of Costa Rica; 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

11. Dr. Karen Smith – (South Africa): United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021)

12. Cherie Blair CBE KC – (United Kingdom): Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

13. Anne Ramberg – (Sweden): Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Board Member, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Chair, Board of Uppsala University; Former Secretary General, Swedish Bar Association

14. Prof. Leila Nadya Sadat – (United States): Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-2023); Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative; James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law

15. Prof. Claudio Grossman – (Chile): Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor (2021-present); Member, UN International Law Commission (ILC) (2016-present); Chair, ILC’s Drafting Committee (2019); President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) (2014-present); President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (1996, 2001); Chair, UN Committee against Torture (CAT) (4 terms, from 2008-2015); Chair, UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (2013); Professor of Law & Dean Emeritus, R. Geraldson Scholar for International and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law

16. Prof. Helen Keller – (Switzerland): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (2011-2020); Chair, Public Law and European and Public International Law, University of Zurich

17. Prof. Josef Azizi – (Austria): Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2013)

18. Prof. Valeriu M. Ciucă – (Romania): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2007-2010)

19. Dr. Irmgard Griss – (Austria): President of the Supreme Court of Austria (2007-2011); President, Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union (2010-2011)

20. Justice Florence N.M. Mumba – (Zambia): International Judge, Supreme Court Chamber, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC); Former Vice President, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY); Former Appeals Chamber Judge, UNICTY/ICTR; Retired Judge, Supreme Court, Zambia

21. Prof. Wolfgang Schomburg – (Germany): Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2008); Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (2003-2008); Judge, Federal Supreme Court of Germany (1995–2000)

22. Geoffrey Robertson AO KC – (Australia): First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL); Founder and Head, Doughty Street Chambers

23. Prof. Giovanni Grasso – (Italy): Former International Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; former Judge of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina

24. Judge Flavia Lattanzi – (Italy): Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (2003-2007); Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2007-2016)

25. Stanislav Pavlovschi – (Moldova): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (2001-2008); Minister of Justice of Moldova (2019)

26. Sir David Edward KCMG KC – (United Kingdom): Judge, European Court of Justice (1992-2004); Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh

27. Prof. Georg Ress – (Germany): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (1998-2004)

28. Prof. Franklin Dehousse – (Belgium): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2003-2016)

29. Prof. Vilenas Vadapalas – (Lithuania): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2004-2013)

30. Kate Mackintosh – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law; Deputy Registrar, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2012-2017)

31. Dr. Rowan Williams – (United Kingdom): Former Archbishop of Canterbury; former Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

32. Amb. Stephen J. Rapp – (United States): US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015); Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) (2007-2009)

33. Prof. Robert K. Goldman – (United States): UN Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism (2004-2005); President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

34. Morten Kjaerum – (Denmark): Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden; Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (2008-2015)

35. Prof. Jan Pronk – (The Netherlands): Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan (2004-2006); Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1985-1986)

36. Prof. Juan E. Méndez – (Argentina): UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010-2016); Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (2004-2007); former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States

37. Prof. Manfred Nowak – (Austria): Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice/Italy; Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (2004-2010); Former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); Former Judge, Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina

38. Kumi Naidoo – (South Africa): Secretary General, Amnesty International (2018-2020)

39. Prof. Chris D. Sidoti – (Australia): Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000); Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995)

40. Prof. Christian Tomuschat – (Germany): President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (2013-2019); Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (1977-1986); Member and Chairman of the UN International Law Commission (1985-1996); Emeritus Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

41. Erkki Tuomioja – (Finland): Foreign Minister of Finland (2000-2007, 2011-2015); President of the Nordic Council (2008)

42. Amb. Juan Esteban Aguirre Martinez – (Paraguay): Foreign Minister of Paraguay (2000-2001); former Ambassador of Paraguay to the United Nations Office in Geneva; Vice President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015)

43. Amb. Zorica Marić-Djordjević – (Montenegro): Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council and World Trade Organization (2013-2018)

44. Amb. Vojislav Šuc – (Slovenia): President of the UN Human Rights Council (2018)

45. Amb. Keith M. Harper – (United States): Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council (2014-2017)

46. Amb. Ken Blackwell – (United States): Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights

47. Amb. Amanda Ellis – (New Zealand): Ambassador and Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations in Geneva (2013-2016); Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and inaugural Ambassador for Women and Girls

48. Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría – (Costa Rica): Second Vice-President of Costa Rica (2014-2018); Costa Rican Ambassador to Spain (2018-2022)

49. Amb. Filloreta Kodra – (Albania): Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in Geneva

50. Amb. Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. – (United States): US Special Envoy (2008-2009); US Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs (2001-2005); Chairman Emeritus, Stimson Center

51. Miriam Ekiudoko – (Hungary): Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2021-present)

52. Dainius Pūras – (Lithuania): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2014-2020); Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council (2018-2019)

53. Prof. Jean Ziegler – (Switzerland): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008); former Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee

54. Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana – (Uganda): UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2018-2024)

55. Maud De Boer-Buquicchio – (The Netherlands): UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (2014-2020); former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe

56. Prof. Jeremy Sarkin – (South Africa): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2008-2014)

57. Prof. Michael Lynk – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (2016-2022); Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Western University

58. Prof. François Crépeau – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017); Professor of Public International Law, McGill University

59. Prof. Gerard Quinn – (Ireland): UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2020-2023)

60. Prof. Fernand de Varennes – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-2023)

61. Prof. Urmila Bhoola – (South Africa): UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (2014-2020)

62. Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci – (Malta): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2015-2021)

63. Prof. Ricardo A. Sunga III – (Philippines): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2014-2021)

64. Prof. Gabor Rona – (United States): Chair-Rapporteur/Member of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries (2011-2019); Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School

65. Saeed Mokbil – (Yemen): Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries

66. Gabriela Knaul – (Brazil): UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2009-2015)

67. Henrikas Mickevičius – (Lithuania): Member, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2015-2022)

68. Prof. Ariel E. Dulitzky – (Argentina): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2010-2017); Director of the Human Rights Clinic of the School of Law at University of Texas at Austin

69. Baskut Tuncak – (Turkey) UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights (2014-2020)

70. Alda M. Facio – (Costa Rica): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (2014-2020)

71. Prof. Soledad Villagra – (Paraguay): Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2002-2008)

72. Yasmin Sooka – (South Africa): Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (2016-present); former Commissioner, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

73. Sonja Biserko – (Serbia): Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013-2014); Founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

74. Marek Antoni Nowicki – (Poland): Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo; UN-appointed International Ombudsperson in Kosovo (2000-2005); Member of the European Commission of Human Rights (1993-1999)

75. Dr. Melanie O’Brien – (Australia): President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS); Associate Professor of International Law, University of Western Australia

76. Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey – (United States): Executive Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention

77. Bob Blackman MP – (United Kingdom): Member of Parliament

78. Sir Richard J. Roberts – (United Kingdom): 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

79. Elfriede Jelinek – (Austria): 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature

80. Dr. Felicity Gerry KC – (United Kingdom): International barrister, Crockett Chambers, Melbourne and Libertas Chambers, London

81. Prof. Rebecca Cook – (Canada): Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

82. Prof. Brice Dickson – (United Kingdom): Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (1999-2005); Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)

83. Prof. Nicholas Grief – (United Kingdom): Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent

84. Amos Waldman – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

85. Marion Böker – (Germany): Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues

86. Dominique Attias – (France): Former President, European Bars Federation / Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE)

87. Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy – (United States): Executive Director, World Without Genocide

88. Prof. Errol P. Mendes – (Canada): President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section; Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

89. David Russell – (United Kingdom): UK Coordinator, Survivors Fund (SURF)

90. Prof. Predrag Dojčinović – (United States): Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut; War Crimes expert at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1998-2017)

91. Prof. Sir Mark Vlasic – (United States): Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2003); Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law & Public Policy, Georgetown University

92. Prof. Steven Leonard Jacobs – (United States): Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama; former First Vice-President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)

93. Elisabeth Rabesandratana – (France): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

94. Thom Dyke – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Deka Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

95. Prof. Dr. Susanne Brandtstädter – (Germany): Professor and Chair of the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne

96. Malcolm Fowler – (United Kingdom): Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, member of JVMI, and formerly of the Council and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales

97. Achille Campagna – (San Marino): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

98. Arbana Xharra – (Kosovo): Recipient of US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award 2015; Journalist

99. Jonathan Arkush – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Enterprise Chambers

100. Paulo Casaca – (Portugal): Executive Director, South Asia Democratic Forum; Founder, ARCHumankind; Former Member of the European Parliament

101. Prof. Paul H. Robinson – (United States): Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

102. Richard C. Dieter – (United States): Former Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center; Adjunct Professor of Law, Catholic University of America

103. Prof. Rosa Ana Alija Fernández – (Spain): Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona

104. Joan Francesca Quint – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers

105. Nick Brown – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers

106. Greg Boos – (United States): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

107. Sharron Davies MBE – (United Kingdom): Swimmer, Olympic medalist

108. Prof. Debórah Dwork – (United States): Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY)

109. Christina Cushen – (Australia): Human Rights and Gender Equality Activist

110. Denis Jivaga – (Kazakhstan): Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR)

111. Prof. Eric Heinze – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society (CLDS), Queen Mary University of London; Professor of Law & Humanities, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London

112. Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate – (Togo): Programmes and Advocacy Director, West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN / ROADDH)

113. Prof. Alex Neve – (Canada): Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; Adjunct Professor, Faculties of Law, University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University; Former Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada

114. Ms Tarazi Mohammed Sheikh – (Bangladesh): Human Rights Defender

115. Prof. Hilary Earl – (Canada): Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence, Nipissing University; Professor of European History and Genocide Studies, Nipissing University

116. Melinda Taylor – (Australia): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

117. Prof. Antonietta Elia – (Italy): International Legal Adviser, Council of Europe

118. Toby Cadman – (United Kingdom): Co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers

119. Dr. Victoria Sanford – (United States): Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI)

120. Prof. David J. Simon – (United States): Director, Yale University Genocide Studies Program

121. James Joseph – (United Kingdom): Director, The Duty Legacy

122. Dr. Gregory H. Stanton – (United States): Founding President, Genocide Watch

123. ElsaMarie Dsilva – (India): Founder and President, Red Dot Foundation Global

124. Christina Blacklaws – (United Kingdom): President of the Law Society of England and Wales (2018-2019)

125. Dr. Maxim Pensky – (United States): Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University, NY

126. Andreas Bummel – (Germany): Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders

127. Dr. György Tatár – (Hungary): Director, Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention (BCMAP); Head of EU Task Force for Conflict Prevention/Emerging Horizontal Security Issues (2004-2010)

128. Kenneth Lewis – (Sweden): Lawyer for the PMOI in the Swedish trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury

129. Giorgia Pietropaoli – (Italy): Professor, writer, journalist and human rights activist

130. Marie Lamensch – (Canada): Global Affairs Officer, Montreal Institute for Global Security (MIGS)

131. The Hon. Tony Clement PC – (Canada): Former Member of Parliament from Canada; former Canadian Minister of Industry, Minister of Health and President of the Treasury Board

132. Gabrielle Louise McIntyre – (Australia/Cyprus): International Consultant, Lex Collective; Climate Counsel, Anti-Corruption Authority

133. Prof. Roger S. Clark – (New Zealand): Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey; Member, UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control (1987-1990)

134. Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips – (United Kingdom & Nigeria): Barrister, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers

135. Prof. Dr. Christoph Degenhart – (Germany): Professor emeritus of law, University of Leipzig; Former judge of the Constitutional Court State of Saxony

136. Prof. Jerry P. White – (Canada): Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University; Director, Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium

137. Prof. Baden Offord AO – (Australia): Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University

138. Jane E. Durgom-Powers – (United States): CEO & Founder, Families of the Missing (FOM)

139. Prof. David E. Guinn – (United States): Public Service Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany – State University of New York

140. Hans Noot – (The Netherlands): Director, Gerard Noodt Foundation for Freedom of Religion or Belief

141. Alison Brown – (United States): President, International Alliance of Women

142. Sheila Paylan – (Armenia/Canada): Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Legal Consultant with the United Nations

143. Prof. Yakin Ertürk – (Turkey): UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2003-2009); Director of UN Division for the Advancement of Women (1999-2001); Member, Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture (2009-2013)

144. Hiljmnijeta Apuk – (Kosovo): Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013; Director, Little People of Kosova; Member, Ad Hoc Committee of the UN General Assembly on drafting of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

145. Prof. Michel Mayor – (Switzerland): 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics

146. Eleonora Mongelli – (Italy): Vice President, FIDU – Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani (Italian Federation for Human Rights)

147. Prof. Ben Kiernan – (United States): Founding Director, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University; Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1998-2015) at Yale University

148. Prof. Alexander Motyl – (United States): Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

149. Dr. Anja Matwijkiw – (United States): Professor of Ethics & Human Rights & 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Fellow of Arts and Humanities, Indiana University Northwest

150. Prof. Barry C. Barish – (United States): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics

151. Sergio D’Elia – (Italy): Secretary General, Hands Off Cain

152. Elisabetta Zamparutti – (Italy): Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain; former Member of Parliament

153. Mohammed Mostafa – (Tunisia): Executive Director, Intersection Association for Rights and Freedoms

154. Dr. Maude Barlow – (Canada): Former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly; Former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians

155. Melissa Parke – (Australia): Member, UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (2017–2021); Former Federal Labor Member for Fremantle; Former Minister for International Development (AusAID)

156. Eric Sottas – (Switzerland): Founder and former Secretary General of Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture – World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

157. Antonio Stango – (Italy): President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)

158. Prof. James Allan – (United Kingdom): Emeritus Professor of Eastern Art, University of Oxford

159. Klaus U. Rackwitz – (Germany): Former Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy

160. Prof. Sara Chandler KC (Hon) – (United Kingdom): Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe – FBE) and Former President of the FBE; Former Chair of the Human Rights Committee, Law Society of England & Wales

161. Prof. Robert J. Currie KC – (Canada): Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

162. Dr. David E. Pettigrew – (United States): CSU Professor and Chairperson, Philosophy Department, Southern Connecticut State University

163. Prof. Eric Stover – (United States): Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

164. Thomas F. Creed – (Ireland): Senior Counsel

165. Dr. Stephanie Wolfe – (United States): Professor, Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Weber State University (WSU); First Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2023-2025)

166. Silke Studzinsky – (Germany): Former International Civil Party Lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

167. Lia Tsuladze – (Georgia): Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia

168. Maria Dmytrieva – (Ukraine): Democracy Development Center

169. David Matas – (Canada): Human rights lawyer and Co-Founder of International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China

170. Prof. Juan Carlos Manriquez – (Chile): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

171. Roberto Durrieu – (Argentina): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

172. Dr Heather Strang – (United Kingdom): Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, Cambridge University

173. René Waldow – (Switzerland): Representative to the UN, Association of World Citizens (AWC)

174. Donna Robinson Divine – (United States): Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government Emerita, Department of Government, Smith College

175. Ingrid Betancourt – (Colombia): Former Senator and Presidential candidate

176. Prof. Ray Murphy – (Ireland): Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway

177. Alice Benhamou Panetta – (France): President, Vivent Les Femmes (VLF); Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur

178. Prof. Yasushi Higashizawa – (Japan): Professor, Faculty of Law, Meijigakuin University; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA)

179. Dr. Carmen Márquez-Carrasco – (Spain): Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Sevilla

180. Dr. Robin Ramcharan – (Thailand): Executive Director at Asia Centre; Professor of International Relations in Bangkok

181. Judith Armatta – (United States): Author and Human Rights Lawyer

182. Hon. Peter Kent – (Canada): Minister of the Environment of Canada (2011-2013); Former Member of Parliament

183. Dr. Surepalli Prashanth – (India): Lawyer; Special Assistant to the Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana

184. Christian Roth – (France): Lawyer; Founder and Honorary President, European Lawyers’ Union (Union des Avocats Européens – UAE)

185. Prof. Tom Shakespeare – (United Kingdom): Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

186. Prof. Pearl Eliadis – (Canada): Human rights lawyer and Associate Professor (professional), Max Bell School of Public Policy; Full Member, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University

187. Ahmet Cemil Yildirim – (Kuwait): Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Gulf University for Science and Technology

188. Prof. Siobhan Wills – (Northern Ireland): Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University; Professor of Law, School of Law, Ulster University

189. Omar Soliman – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Guernica 37 Chambers

190. Prof. Julia Bray – (United Kingdom): Emerita Professor of Classical Arabic, University of Oxford

191. Tomas Manguel – (Argentina): Professor of International Criminal Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires

192. Dr. Denakpon L. Tchobo – (United States): Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; President, Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE)

193. Hon. Dr. Jocelynne A. Scutt – (United Kingdom / Australia): Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania, and former judge on the High Court of Fiji

194. Reed Brody – (Hungary/United States): Member, UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (2024-present); Member, International Commission of Jurists; former Deputy Chief of the UN Secretary-General’s Investigative Team in the Democratic Republic of Congo; former Director of the Human Rights Division of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL)

195. Dr. Juan E. Garcés – (Spain): Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden); Lawyer and former advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende

196. Prof. Caroline Bennett – (New Zealand): Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, Sussex University

197. Dr. Katerina Hatzikidi – (United Kingdom): Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

198. Prof. Natasha Lindstaedt – (United Kingdom): Faculty Dean of Education, Department of Government, University of Essex

199. Prof. Martti Koskenniemi – (Finland): Member of the UN International Law Commission (2002-2006)

200. Dr. Alia Brahimi – (United Kingdom): Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

201. Filippo Cesaris – (Italy): Vice President of FDU – Fondazione Diritti Umani (Human Rights Foundation)

202. Alexis Anagnostakis – (Greece): Barrister at Law

203. Claire Mahon – (New Zealand): Executive Director, Global Human Rights Group

204. Dr. Yevgeniy Zhovtis – (Kazakhstan): Chief Expert-Consultant, Member of the Board, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR)

205. Dr. William H. Wiley – (Canada): Executive Director, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)

206. Dr. Mireille Rebeiz – (United States): Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor, Dickinson College

207. Prof. Alexander Alvarez – (United States): Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University

208. Prof. David M. Crane – (United States): Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone

209. Prof. Sheldon Glashow – (United States): 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics

210. Rebecca A. Shoot – (United States): Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions

211. Prof. Takaaki Kajita – (Japan): 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics

212. Stephanie Barwise KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister

213. Tracy Edwards MBE – (United Kingdom): Founder, The Maiden Factor

214. Prof. Eve Zucker – (United States): Lecturer at Yale University

215. Prof. Nenad Stojanović – (Switzerland): Professor, University of Geneva

216. Prof. David R. Boyd – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2018-2024)

217. Prof. Marie Fox – (United Kingdom): Queen Victoria Chair of Law, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool

218. Prof. Rudolf Mellinghoff – (Germany): Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (2001-2011); President of Federal Fiscal Court of Germany (2011-2020)

219. Tali Nates – (South Africa): Recipient US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Awards (2023)

220. Prof. Naomi Roht-Arriaza – (United States): Distinguished Professor of Law (emeritus), UC Law San Francisco

221. Dr. Susan Bazilli – (Canada): Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus (2024-present)

222. Prof. Susana SáCouto – (United States): Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL)

223. Prof. Luz E. Nagle – (United States): Professor of Law Emeritus, Stetson University College of Law

224. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy – (United States): Founder, The Kennedy Forum; Former Member of the US House of Representatives

225. Irene Victoria Massimino – (Argentina): High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020); Professor of Jurisprudence and Human Rights

226. Karen Gomez Dumpit – (Philippines): Former Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR)

227. Dr. Sibylle von Heydebrand – (Switzerland): Representative of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) at the United Nations in Geneva

228. Charles Taku – (Netherlands): Lawyer

229. Stan Brabant – (Luxembourg): Executive Director, Amnesty International Luxembourg (2012-2019)

230. Fathi Ben Mrad – (France): Associate Researcher, University of Luxembourg; President of the Francophone Association for the Development of Mediation

231. Alastair Logan OBE – (United Kingdom): Chair, Solicitors International Human Rights Group; Council Member of The Law Society of England and Wales

232. Rabbi Abraham Cooper – (United States): Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2023-2024); Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action, Simon Wiesenthal Center

233. Prof. Steven M. Schneebaum – (United States): Adjunct Professor of International Law, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University

234. Prof. Timothy Patrick McCarthy – (United States): Lecturer on Education, Harvard University

235. Prof. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch – (Norway): Regius Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Essex

236. Prof. Felipe Gómez Isa – (Spain): Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean for International Relations, Deusto Law School

237. Prof. Stefan Braum – (Luxembourg): Professor of European Criminal Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg

238. Prof. Peter Romijn – (The Netherlands): Head of the Research Department, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies; Professor of History, University of Amsterdam

239. Andrea Shemberg – (Italy): Chair, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights

240. Nwabueze Nwokolo – (Nigeria): Council Member Emeritus, The Law Society of England & Wales

241. Struan Stevenson – (United Kingdom): Former Member of the European Parliament

242. Prof. Jocelyn Getgen – (United States): Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic; Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Cardozo Law

243. Prof. Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez – (Spain): Former President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL); Chair of International and European Law, University of Granada

244. Prof. Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen – (France): Former President of the Constitutional Court of Andorra (2014-2016); Professor of Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Universite de Paris 1)

245. Prof. Amanda Grzyb – (Canada): Professor of Information and Media Studies, Western University

246. Kurt Kerns – (United States): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)

247. Prof. Kermit Roosevelt – (United States): Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

248. Dr. Jeffrey Bachman – (United States): Associate Professor, American University School of International Service

249. Prof. Nico Krisch – (Switzerland): Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

250. Christy Fujio – (United States): Executive Director, Synergy for Justice; Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk University Law School

251. Prof. Evelyne Schmid – (Switzerland): Professor of International Law, University of Lausanne

252. Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage – (France): 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

253. Dr. Kerry Whigham – (United States): Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University

254. Dr. Avril Alba – (Australia): Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney

255. Rupert Skilbeck – (United Kingdom): Director, REDRESS

256. David Strupek – (Czech Republic): Lawyer

257. R. Bruce McColm – (United States): President, Institute for Democratic Strategies; former Executive Director, Freedom House

258. Dr. Mark Kersten – (Canada): Assistant Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice, the University of the Fraser Valley

259. Abbé Jolles – (United States): International Human Rights Litigator

260. Rt Hon Nigel Evans – (United Kingdom): Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (2020-2024)

261. Prof. Timothy J. Christian KC – (Canada): Chief Federal Negotiator of the Government of Canada (1996–2010); Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta (1985-1995)

262. Dr. James Mehigan – (Ireland / United States): Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury

263. Sandra M. Coyle – (United States): Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP)

264. Dr. Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot – (Spain): Emeritus Professor of Private international law, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón

265. Pierre Bercis – (France): President, Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH)

266. Prof. Dr. Heinz Schöch – (Germany): Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at the University of Munich

267. Emanuel Kamura – (Switzerland): Jurist

268. Nick Bell – (Switzerland): Human rights activist

269. Akaash Maharaj – (Canada): Ambassador-at-Large for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC)

270. Prof. Barend van Leeuwen – (Netherlands): Professor of European Union Law, Durham Law School

271. Prof. Max du Plessis – (South Africa): Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers; Adjunct Professor, University of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela University

272. Prof. Martha Bradley – (South Africa): Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law, University of Johannesburg

273. Niamh Harnett – (Ireland): Barrister At Law, The Bar of Ireland; Lecturer in Immigration and Asylum Law, City Colleges

274. Prof. Martin Flaherty – (United States / Ireland): Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School; Adjunct Professor, Barnard College; Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights, Fordham Law School; Founding Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice

275. Luciano Hazan – (Argentina): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2017-2023); Member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) (2011-2017)

276. Mae Thompson – (United States): Advocacy Officer, CEASEFIRE Centre for Civilian Rights

277. Iran Human Rights Monitor (IranHRM) – (Sweden)

278. Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) – (United Kingdom)

279. Hands Off Cain – (Italy)

280. German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP) – (Germany)

281. Italian Federation for Human Rights – Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani (FIDU) – (Italy)

282. European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) – (Netherlands)

283. CIVICUS – (South Africa)

284. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – (United States)

285. World Without Genocide – (United States)

286. Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH) – (France)

287. Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY) – (United States)

288. Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) – (Kazakhstan)

289. Le Comité de soutien aux droits de l’homme en Iran (CSDHI) – (France)

290. Guernica 37 Chambers – (United Kingdom)

291. Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, NY – (United States)

292. Genocide Watch – (United States)

293. Synergy for Justice – (United Kingdom)

294. Red Dot Foundation Global – (United States)

295. Budapest Centre for Dialogue and Mass Atrocities Prevention – (Hungary)

296. The Duty Legacy – (United Kingdom)

297. NGO Little People of Kosova – (Kosovo)

298. The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes – (United Kingdom)

299. Intersection Association for Rights and Freedoms – (Tunisia)

300. Vivent Les Femmes (VLF) – (France)

301. Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) – (Ukraine): 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

302. Families of the Missing (FOM) – (United States)

303. Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE) – (United States)

304. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia – (Serbia)

305. The Independent Commission for Human Rights in North Africa (CIDH AFRICA) – (Morocco)

306. West African Human Rights Defenders Network / Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains (WAHRDN/ROADDH) – (Togo)

307. Global Human Rights Group – (Switzerland)

308. Anagnostakis Law Offices – (Greece)

309. Women’s Human Rights International Association (WHRIA) – (France)

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