A statement announced by more than 500 Iranian cultural elites in support of IAPSRS and release of the founder of the NGO, ‘Sharmin Meymandinejad’

Imam Ali’s community is one of the most successful non-governmental organizations in creating and using public participation to promote education and health, to reduce poverty and injustice in society, and to manage social crises.

After years of efforts, the leaders and operators of this popular institution have succeeded in gaining public trust through the economic support of people for the vulnerable groups.The wide range of charitable activities of the Imam Ali’s community takes place in more than 44 permanent centers in 20 provinces of the country.The long-term arrest and imprisonment of the founder and director of this institution will cause great social damage. Hundreds of families who are still having a hard time even with the material and spiritual support of the Imam Ali’s community will soon face more problems.

‌ We, the signatories of this letter, express our deep concern over the imposition of work restrictions on this institution and its director, Sharmin Meymandinejad, and call for immediate, fair and transparent judicial action to end his detention.

Signatories of the letter are as follows:

Asghar Farhadi, Kayhan Kalhor, Babak Ahmadi, Bahman Farmanatara, Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulov, Abdolfattah Soltani, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Lily Golestan, Fatemeh Motamedaria, Sohrab Pournazeri, Belqis Soleimani, Farzaneh Taheri, Ali Mosafa, Ali Rafieri, Mah , Arash Kaykhosravi, Farideh Ghairat, Mohammad Rahmanian, Mohammad Yaghoubi, Hamed Behdad, Mahnaz Afshar, Tahmineh Milani, Farhad Tawhidi, Ebrahim Haghighi, Mohammad Reza Moeini, Ebrahim Mokhtari, Abbas Ganjavi, Amir Esbati, Kamran Shirdel, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Hayedeh Safi Ustad Ali, Farzad Pak, Ashkan Ashkani, Touraj Aslani, Farshad Mohammadi, Ravanbakhsh Sadeghi, Jamal Rahmati, Bahman Ardalan, Hadi Heidari, Ahmad Bukharaei, Qasem Sholeh Saadi.

Signatories in alphabetical order:

Masoud Abparvar, Baktash Abtin, Younes Absalan, Mostafa Arian, Hamidreza Ashtianipour, Vahid Aghapour, Hassan Agakhani, Yadollah Agha Abbasi, Parvaneh Al-Bouyeh, Nasser Avijeh, Kaveh Ahangar, Kaveh Ebrahim, Bahram Ebrahimi, Morteza Ebrahimi, Saeed Ebrahimi, Saeed Ebrahimi Ahmadvand, Babak Ahmadi, Amir Sultan Ahmadi, Khosrow Ahmadi, Hanieh Ahmadi, Amir Ahmadi Arian, Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani, Davood Ahmadi Mons (Arvin), Farid Adhami, Bahar Arjomand, Bahram Arjomandnia, Bahareh Arjomandi, Bahman Ardalan, Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark, Mohammad Arjang, Zohreh Arsanjoon, Mohsen Asad Ostali , Mohammad Sam Asadi, Mehdi Asadi, Parvin Esfandiari, Setareh Eskandari, Mehrdad Oskooi, Morteza Esmaili, Sirous Asnaghi, Maryam Ashrafi, Ashkan Ashkani, Touraj Aslani, Roya Afshar, Shobreh Afshar, Maryam Afshar, Mahnaz Afshar, Iman Afsharian, Mah Sajaz Afsharian Afzali, Navid Afgheh, Anahita Eghbalnejad, Parisa Akbarzadeh, Milad Akbarnejad, Abdolreza Akbari, Homayoun Emami, Hamid Amjad, Majid Amrayi, Mohsen Amiryousefi, Kamyab Amin Ashayeri, Akbar Amini Armaki, Masoud Amini Tirani, Razi Ensi, Lee Babaei Hemmati, Reza Babak, Alireza Babaki, Hassan Bastani, Setareh Bastani, Saed Bagheri, Ali Bagheri, Ali Akbar Baghani, Pouyan Bahagh, Ahmad Bukharaei, Masoud Bakhshi, Alireza Badie, Samira Thabradari, Majid Barzegar, Hooman Barghonvard, Ehteram Boroumand, Peyman Boroumand, Mohtaram Boroumand, Shirin Bozorgmehr, Mehdi Bozorgi, Pedram Baghaei Anaraki, Alireza Bandari, Rakhshan Bonyatemad, Maryam Bobani, Mohammad Ali Behboodi, Shahrbanoo Behjat, Babadak Behjat Bahram, Amin Behroozzadeh, Behnam Behzadi, Azadeh Bizargiti, Farzad Pak, Atefeh Pakbaznia, Maryam Palizban, Elham Pavehnejad, Hossein Parstar, Susan Parvar, Jafar Panahi, Panthea Panahiha, Kiomars Poorahmad, Poury Pourazir, Parvid Pourazir, Hamid Marjan Pourgholamhossein, Sohrab Pournazeri, Ali Pouyan, Mohammad Tajik, Baran Tarakh, Farhad Tajvidi, Yahya Tadayon, Siddiq Tareef, Hossein Tafangdar, Maedeh Taghvaei, Nima Taghavi, Farzad Tohidi, Farhad Tohidi, Yasman Turang, Hanieh Tavassoli, Vahid Tahami, Ali , Alireza Thanifar, Mahtab Tharouti, Mohammad Reza Saghafi, Hamid Janipour, Parviz Jahed,Morteza Jazab, Amin Jafari, Behnaz Jafari, Hamid Jafari, Ruhollah Jafari, Somayeh Jafari, Seyed Erfan Jafari, Farzad Jafari, Ali Jafari Fotimi, Mahshid Jamals, Mahnaz Jangjoo, Jamshid Jahanzadeh, Davood Jahanvand, Ehsan Cheraghi Iranesh Ahi, Saeed Changizian, Samad Chiniforanshan, Mohammad Hatami, Amin Haji Akbari Dizaji, Azizullah Haji Mashhadi, Mohammad Haddadi, Sana Hosseinpour, Shahabuddin Hosseinpour, Atbin Hosseini, Homayoun Hosseinian, Peyman Haghani, Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, Ebrahim Haghighi, Ebrahim Haghighi ،Hadi Heidari, Farhang Khatami, Mohammad Khaksari, Mohammad Reza Khaki, Mehrad Khamenei, Nader Khatai, Behzad Khodavisi, Firoozeh Khosravani, Mansour Khalaj, Fardin Khalatbari, Samira Khalili, Majid Khamseh, Shiva Khaniagar, Arman Khansarian, Davood Khayyam, Yaser Khair, Gohar Kheirandish, Mohammad Hassan Damanvand, Mohammad Hassan Damanuz Derakhshandeh, Ali Derakhshi, Anahita Dargahi, Reza Dermishian, Alireza Darvishnejad, Jalal Dori, Ali Asghar Dashti, Shahrooz Delvafkar, Masoud Delkhah, Ebrahim Demnashenas, Saeed Dehghan, Masoumeh Dehghan, Habib Dehghan nasab, Mahmoud Dehghani, Taha Zakir, Pouria Zolfaghari, Rahmaneh Rabbani, Zahra Rabbani Amlishi, Mohammad Rahmanian, Akbar Rahmati, Jamal Rahmati, Jafar Rahimi, Zahra Rahimi, Pouria Rahimi Sam, Mohammad Rasoulov, Lily Rashidi, Ameneh Rezaei, Nahid Rezaei, Mohammad Rezaei Kalan , Amir Shahab Razavian, Ali Rafiei, Sahra Ramezanian, Azadeh Ravanbakhsh, Farin Rouhanian, Talaie Royaei, Hooman Rahnemoun, Masoud Riazi, Alireza Raisian, Arash Raisian, Qasem Zare, Alireza Zareparast, Sadruddin Zahed, Hamid Zahangeh, Ali Zanganeh, Hoda Zineh Al-Abedin, Nader Saeivour, Saman Salvar, Saba Setareh, Siavash Sattari, Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini, Sahar Sakhaei, Keyvan Sarreshteh, Seyed Rasoul Saadat, Salma Salamati, Shohreh Soltani, Abdolfattah Soltani, Mehdi Soleimanpour Shams, Belqis Soleimani, Ali Soleimani, Kourosh Soleimani, Sohrab Salimi, Azadeh Soleimian, Saed Soheili, Ramin Siar Dashti, Hamid Siavoshan, Prizad Seif, Mohammad Seifzadeh, Saeed Shapoori, Sima Shahmoradi, Reza Shahbodaghi, Jila Shahi, Manouchehr Shoja, Mohsen Sharmani, Mohsen Sharmani Sharifi, Qasem Sholeh Saadi, Pouyan Sholehvar, Ismail Shafiei, Seyed Zia-ud-Din Shafiei, Fatemeh Shokri, Abdolhai Shamasi, Omid Shams, Parisa Shams, Ali Shams, Shaghayegh Shourian, Baniipal Shomoun, Khosrow Shahraz, Mahvash Sheikha-ol-Islami, Majid Sheida, Kamran Shirdel, Shahram Shirzadi, Mostafa Sadeghiri Sadeghian, Elham Salehi, Parvin Salehi, Majid Salehi, Zahra Sabri, Vahid Sedaghat, Amin Sadraei, Fereshteh Sadr Arfaei, Rasoul Sadr Ameli, Behzad Sedighi, Mohammad Sedighi Mehr, Sadegh Safaei, Hayedeh Safiyyari, Zahra Samadi, Soheid Sanad, Ziaee, Mehrdad Ziaee, Farhad Talebi Nejad, Omid Taheri, Amir Hossein Taheri, Reza Taheri, Soroush Taheri, Samad Taheri, Farzaneh Taheri, Reyhaneh Taravati, Saeed Talaei, Mahour Tousi, Siavash Tahmours, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Mohammad Aqabi, Javad Abati Mohammad Reza Aali Payam (Halo), Morteza Ali Abbas Mirzaei, Mohsen Abdolvahab, Zahra Abdi, Meysam Abdi, Ahmad Arabani, Kourosh Asgari, Kourosh Atai, Pourandokht Azimi, Amir Hossein Alamolhadi, Shahabuddin Alavi, Hojjat Alikhani, Hossein Alishampour, Hossein Alishampour , Abbas Ghaffari, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Farideh Ghairat, Shahin Fakher, Hassan Fathi, Hossein Farokhi, Soheila Farzinnejad, Shabnam Farshadjoo, Farshad Fereshteh Hekmat, Bahman Farmaneh Ara, Kaveh Farnam, Rojia Forouhar, Asghar Farhadi, Sanobar Farhpour, Sara Farhpour, Sadaf Farhang, Rozita Fazai, Nader Fallah, Hengameh Fallah, Hengameh Fallah, Ehsan Falah, Ehsan Fallah , Reza Fayyazi, Ali Mohammad Ghasemi, Mehdi Ghasemi, Mojdeh Ghaemi, Forough Ghajabgoli, Fatemeh Ghorbani, Mahsa Gharahkhani, Mohsen Ghasabian, Sogol Qalatian, Maryam Gholhaki, Mohammad Reza Gholipour, Majid Ghanad, Shima Ghosheh, Morteza Karidig Kashif, Kaveh Kazemi, Abdoljabar Kakai, Naseh Kamkari, Neda Kavousifar, Abdolreza Kahani, Simin Keramati, Amir Karbalaeizadeh, Ziba Karmali, Soghari Karim al-Dini, Mohammad Keshavarz, Mina Keshavarz,Pouyan Kafili, Kayhan Kalhor, Baran Kowsari, Reza Kouchakzadeh, Mostafa Koushki, Maryam Kouhestani, Maryam Kianarsi, Keyvan Kiani,Linda Kiani, Arash Golsaravi, Lee Gozarastan , Soheila Golestani, Barbad Golshiri, Abbas Ganjavi, Mehdi Ganji, Majid Giachchi, Payam Larian, Niloufar Laripour, Alireza Labesh, Karim Lakzadeh, Farshad Makoei, Aida Mahiani, Maryam Majd, Reza Majlisi, Sasan Majidianfar, Farzin Mohaddes, Neda Mohammadi, Tahmineh Mohammadi, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Soheil Mahmoudi, Ebrahim Mokhtari, Aristotle Madahi Givi, Behzad Mortazavi, Nahid Muslimi, Hamidreza Mosayebi, Zahra Mushtaq, Mehdi Mashhour, Abdolkhalegh Mossadegh, Masoud Mostafa Tibar, Ali Mosaffa, Sahar Mozahi , Ghazaleh Motamed, Fatemeh Motamedaria, Hassan Majouni, Mehdi Maaref, Samarand Maroufi, Hadi Manavipour, Taha Moghani, Afrooz Maghzi, Adel Moqaddas, Susan Maghsoudloo, Mohammad Moghimi, Kayhan Maleki, Munir Maleki, Ismail Monsef, Bita Mansour, Taima Mansoord Manqabati, Ramyar Manouchehrzadeh, Majid Movaseghi, Zeinab Movahed, Ali Moazeni, Azadeh Mousavi, Mazdak Mousavi, Mehdi Mousavi, Dar Yosh Movafaq, Raha Momeni, Heda Moeini, Azadeh Moayedifard, Mohammad Reza Moeini, Meysam Moeini, Hassan Mahdavi, Ezatullah Mehravaran, Mehdi Miami, Farhad Mehranfar, Ali Miraei, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Ehsan Mir Hosseini, Mohsen Mir Hosseini, Mina Mirza Agha, Reza Mirza Sidi, Maziar Miri, Tahmineh Milani, Niayesh Meymandinejad, Ismail Mihanahin Naser, Mohammad Nasht, Mohammad Nahid, Ghorban Najafi, Nasim Najafi, Azam Najafian, Soheila Najm, Kourosh Narimani, Farzaneh Neshatkhah, Rafiq Nosrati, Mahtab Nasirpour, Hamidreza Naeimi, Leila Naghdipour, Rahim Norouzi, Roshan Norouzi, Saeed Norouzi, Mohammad Norouzi Farsangi, Mohammadreza Nouri , Vahid Nahalparvari, Milad Nikabadi, Zeinab Nikcheh, Panthea Vaeznia, Ebrahim Vahidzadeh, Zaman Vafajoui, Mohammad Valizadegan, Parisa Hajri, Yasman Hajri, Mohammad Harouni, Maryam Hashempour, Alaleh Hashemi, Seyed Hashemi, Afshin Hashemi , Alka Hedayat, Hormoz Hedayat, Ali Hediholou, Kazem Hajirazad, Hamidreza Honari, Neda Hengami, Mohammad Amir Yarahmadi, Bardia Yadegari, Maryam Yavari, Peyman Yazdani, Mohammad Yaghoubi.