Media Advisory: Iranian-Canadian community organizations come to Ottawa to call for government action on Iranian foreign affairs
May 02 2024 - 10:39AM
Representatives of the Association of Families of Flight PS752
Victims (the Association), the Iranian Justice Collective (IJC),
and other Iranian-Canadian community organizations will meet with
Members of Parliament (MPs), Ministers, and Senators on May 6th and
7th, 2024 at Parliament Hill.
The purpose of the meetings is to discuss issues
of concern to the Iranian-Canadian community, including the
following topics:
- The Iranian Regime’s
foreign interference in Canada: As IJC has been granted
standing to testify at the policy phase of the Public Inquiry into
Foreign Interference, the organizations will urge government to
give Iran the same level of considerations as China and
Russia.
- Human rights defenders’
resettlement: Request that government heed the call of the
UN’s independent Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI) to grant
asylum and humanitarian visas to Iranian refugees and help provide
much needed medical treatment to those in need of such care.
- Legal Cases for Flight
PS752: Ask that Canada steadfastly follow through with the
cases before the International Court of Justice and International
Civil Aviation Organization, and further support the Association’s
pursuit of justice by assisting with the case before the
International Criminal Court. Organizations will also renew their
demand for a criminal investigation into Flight PS752 to be opened
by the RCMP.
- Listing the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist
organization: The IRGC is the perpetrator of the shooting
down of Flight PS752 and various human rights abuses, many mounting
to crimes against humanity per the UN’s FFMI report. As such,
organizations will continue demands that the IRGC be listed as a
terrorist organization in Canada.
- Expand Canada’s sanctions
to include Iran’s Revolutionary Courts: Ask that
government expand Canada’s list of sanctions to include Islamic
Revolutionary Courts’ judges, prosecutors, and personnel,
specifically in the wake of continuous and increasing attacks on
dissidents, as exemplified by dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi’s
recent death sentence.
This event is organization-based and the result
of collaboration and networking between independent, non-partisan
organizations. It will not promote individuals, political parties
or figures.
For media inquiries, please
contact:info@ijcollective.com