Join the over 5,000 people who have signed the Emergency Appeal or an earlier Statement.
A partial list*:
- Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus MIT; Professor, Univ. of Arizona
- Ariel Dorfman, Author, Death and the Maiden
- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize 2003
- Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize 1997 for her work to ban landmines
- Gloria Steinem, Writer, feminist activist
- Cornel West, Scholar-activist, Union Theological Seminary
- Daniel Ellsberg (dec.), Author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor, Citizen Ambassador Free Rohingya Coalition
- Judith Butler, Professor, author, University of California, Berkeley
- Kia Corthron, Playwright, Novelist
- Jeff Kaufman, Director, producer, writer of NASRIN documentary
- Marcia Ross, Producer, NASRIN documentary
- Naomi Wallace, MacArthur Fellow, Obie award-winning playwright
- Jean Ziegler, Sociologist, writer, Switzerland
- William Bourdon, Lawyer, Paris
- Dr. Saroj Giri, University of Delhi, India
- Dieter Karg, Spokesman, Iran Coordination Group of Amnesty International Germany
- Mariam Claren, Daughter of political prisoner Nahid Taghavi, campaigner to #FreeNahid
- Raymond Lotta, Revolution Books NYC; revcom.us
- Mansoureh Behkish, Mothers of Khavaran
- 30 former political prisoners of Iran
John Buehrens, Past President, Unitarian Universalist Association • David Hartsough, Quaker Peace Activist; co-founder, World Beyond War, Nonviolent Peaceforce • Elika Ashoori, Daughter of former political prisoner Anoosheh Ashoori • Kylie Moore-Gilbert, British-Australian academic, former political prisoner in Iran • Satar Rahmani, Former teacher union activist in Iran; spokesperson for Mehran Raoof • Carol Downer, Women’s reproductive rights advocate; co-initiator of IEC • Dolly Veale, Co-initiator and spokesperson of IEC; revcom.us contributor • Kit Kittredge, Steering Committee Women’s Boat to Gaza • Kave Milani, Spokesman, Burn TheCage/Free The Birds, Europe • Shekib Mosadeq, Revolutionary Afghan artist, activist • Farhang Ghassemi, Président de la commission des droits humains de la Fédération d’Européens des Écoles • Taghi Rahmani, Activist, journalist and writer • Drucilla Cornell, Professor Emerita, Rutgers Univ.; founder and director, uBuntu Project, SouthAfrica • Taraneh Roosta, Women’s rights activist • Gordon Rogdoff, Theater director, professor, Yale School of Drama • Joshua Frank, CounterPunch • Greg Ó Ceallaig, Barrister • Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, Univ. of Toronto • Robert Bossie, Priests of the Sacred Heart • Rev. Dr. Robert Brashear, Pastor Emeritus West Park Church, NYC • Peter Phillips, Former Director, Project Censored; former President, Media Freedom Foundation • David Palumbo-Liu, Professor, Stanford Univ. • John Hutnyk, Researcher, Ton Duc Thang Univ., Vietnam • Hamit Bozarslan, Historian, social scientist • Liz Bernstein, Activist, Canada • Peter Tatchell, Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation • Aida Ghajar, Journalist • Gün Zileli, Author • Jill Godmilow, Filmmaker, retired professor, Univ. of Notre Dame • Rev. Glen Thamert • Ferhat Tunc, Artist • Cecile Pineda, Novelist • Ron Jacobs, Writer • Arlene Rakoncay • Larry Everest, IEC spokesperson; contributor, revcom.us • Nicholas Mottern, Coordinator, Knowdrones.com • Azam Niroomand-Rad, Professor Emerita, Georgetown Univ.