Famous Iranian Torture Victim Challenges Ahmadinejad

Global Summit Against
Discrimination and Persecution
Sept. 21-2
2, 2011

www.ngosummit.org

Ahmad Batebi Challenges Ahmadinejad at Parallel UN Rights Summit.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2011 - As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to address the UN General Assembly for the sixth year in a row, one of his most well-known victims is testifying now of his experiences in the Iranian regime's notorious Evin prison, at a human rights summit convened down the street from the UN building in New York City.

Ahmad Batebi spent nearly ten years as a political prisoner of Iran's regime. In an oped published today on Fox News (see below), to mark the opening of the two-day We Have A Dream: Global Summit Against Persecution and Discrimination, Batebi says: "Were I to meet Ahmadinejad, I would tell him about the occasion when my head was shoved into a drain full of excrement. I'd tell him about the mock executions I was subjected to. I'd tell him about how I was forced to watch my closest friends being viciously beaten, and how their cries for mercy still ring in my ears."

At the summit, Batebi joins leading dissidents and survivors of gross human rights abuse from around the world, including China, Burma, Sudan, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Syria and other countries. The summit is being sponsored by UN Watch and 20 other human rights and advocacy organizations.

The We Have A Dream summit is being held at the W Hotel, 541 Lexington Avenue, New York City.

For a full list of speakers, a complete program and a live webcast of the event, visit www.ngosummit.org.

'A Message for Ahmadinejad' By Ahmad Batebi
Published September 21, 2011 | FoxNews.com

This week, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address the United Nations General Assembly for the sixth year in a row. As he strides toward the podium to deliver yet another rambling, hate-filled speech, Iranians will grimly reflect on the entrenchment of the clerical regime that has ruled them since 1979.
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Read: 'A Message for Ahmadinejad' By Ahmad Batebi
at FoxNews.com

Ahmad Batebi is a leading campaigner for human rights in Iran. After escaping from Iran in 2008, he was granted asylum in the United States, where he now lives.

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