Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽

Lawyer | Human rights advocate #LGM

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

Yoda: “Heeded my words not, did you? Pass on what you have learned. Strength. Mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.”

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

#MeckMIN calls for “solidarity and recommitment to our shared civic life amid rising religious hatred and prejudice.”

In a time marked by rising hatred and fragmentation, I’m grateful for this moral clarity and principled leadership.

Full statement: https://t.co/LFs0ebAmpc

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

ICSD director and Imam, Taha Hassane, said it best:

“All of us are responsible for spreading the culture of tolerance, the culture of love.”

Not just for Muslims. For all of us. That culture has to be built—neighborhood by neighborhood, heart by heart.

God help us.

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

Heartbroken. My prayers are with the ICSD community and the families of Amin, Mansour, and Nader.

[ABC News @ABC]

Authorities in Southern California have released photos of all three victims killed in Monday's shooting shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

Read more: https://t.co/Uk2p8dQTvf

[Mai Sato @drmaisato]

I echo UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk's statement on Iran and join him in calling on the Iranian authorities to halt executions, release those arbitrarily detained, and restore internet access immediately. https://t.co/WFhQG9H4uq The use of national security charges to silence dissent, coerced confessions as the basis for executions, and the targeting of ethnic and religious minorities are patterns I have documented throughout my mandate — and they are continuing despite the ceasefire, as fragile as it is. At least 21 executions have been announced by the State since the conflict began, but the ongoing shutdown gives me serious concern that further executions may be taking place without our knowledge. I am concerned for Narges Mohammadi, whose health is reportedly deteriorating in detention, and for Nasrin Sotoudeh, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Authorities have also reportedly seized the assets of hundreds of citizens — including 400 Iranians living abroad — labelling them 'traitors to the homeland’.The 61-day internet shutdown, the longest ever recorded, has caused severe economic losses, disrupted education and healthcare, and left people unable to access safety information during active hostilities — allowing the State to monopolise the narrative and making it impossible to grasp the full human rights situation inside the country.

[Colin Campbell @RaleighReporter]

An #ncga Senate committee voted today to ban kids under age 14 from using social media. The bill would also require social media users who are age 14 or 15 to get a parent's consent to create an account.

https://t.co/yaYzvpu9ax #ncpol

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

Join me on May 7 at @FMBCCharlotte for #MeckMIN’s annual Community Leader Awards Breakfast. We take this moment to honor individuals in Mecklenburg Co. who are helping build a more just, compassionate & unified community.
🔗 https://t.co/AnkIWBmsoG
#interfaith #UnityInDiversity

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

A must-read by @BahaiUS: “A Common Endeavor: Realizing the Promise of America”—a public letter to all who care about the future of the United States. It offers a vision rooted in unity, justice & our shared responsibility to build a more cohesive society.
https://t.co/eXqRyERZVi

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

@RepSarahElfreth @janschakowsky Thank you, congresswoman. 🙏🏽

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

“Say: no man can attain his true station except through his justice. No power can exist except through unity. No welfare and no well-being can be attained except through consultation.”

— Bahá’u’lláh, from a Tablet, translated from the Arabic #Bahai

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

Congratulations to Dr. @NazilaGhanea, @UN_SPExperts on freedom of religion or belief, on this important volume. A timely contribution bringing legal, ethical & faith perspectives into constructive dialogue on religion, rights & human dignity.
https://t.co/QVLM9HZxUJ #FoRB

[Mai Sato @drmaisato]

Together with UN human rights experts, I call on Iranian authorities to disclose the fate and whereabouts of those detained, disappeared or killed following the nationwide protests—and to halt all executions linked to the demonstrations.
The vast majority of those detained or killed are ordinary people, including children, from all provinces and diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, as well as Afghan nationals. They include lawyers who sought to represent protesters, medical professionals who treated the wounded, journalists, writers, artists and human rights defenders. In recent weeks, Bahai's have also reportedly faced increased incitement and detention.
The discrepancy between official figures and grassroots estimates only deepens the anguish of families searching for their loved ones. In the absence of transparency, a devastating narrative starts to take shape—with unverified reports of burial sites and secret executions emerging, and weeks of internet restrictions continuing to obstruct any independent verification of what is happening on the ground.
When a state refuses to account for the whereabouts of its people, others will fill that void — and the picture that emerges will define this period in Iran's history. https://t.co/QeGWXNlJmH

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

Grateful to @queencitynerve for publishing this #MeckMIN op-ed. Growing up in Charlotte, I’ve seen the power of connection across faiths. An important reminder during Interfaith Harmony Month: building bridges starts close to home.
https://t.co/fl9PV6sHmM #Interfaith #cltpol

[Queen City Nerve @queencitynerve]

"Across religions, there is a shared ethic that becomes most urgent in times like these: How a society treats the stranger reveals what it truly values." MeckMIN is marking our county's inaugural Interfaith Harmony Month with a slate of events. https://t.co/uwUatNsYNw

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

#GDTBATH 🐏

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

@avidseries a post-partisan, spiritual-rationalist 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

@Tyre_94 This starting 5 is special.

[Omid Memarian @Omid_M]

“The people of Iran are living through a nightmare. This is the worst mass murder in Iran’s contemporary history. Our beautiful country has become a cemetery in which the hopes of our youth are buried.”
Watch these powerful and urgent remarks — and a devastating story shared by Dr. Payam Akhavan, former UN legal advisor on war crimes tribunals, former Special Advisor on Genocide to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and one of the world’s leading international human rights lawyers — speaking at the @UN_HRC. His words are a searing indictment of the violence facing Iranians today — and a warning the world cannot afford to ignore. #IranMassacre

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

Mr. Payam Akhavan, civil society representative, took the floor at the @UN Human Rights Council during the special session on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of #Iran.

His statement to #SS39 ➡️https://t.co/thHyXyw1vp

[Abbas Milani @milaniabbas]

خامنه‌ای درس تروریسم علیه ملت ایران را در مکتب نواب صفوی قاتل آموخت. با تروریسم سینما رکس به قدرت رسیدند. با قتلهای زنجیره‌ای و در کشتار جمعی ۱۳۶۸ تروریسم‌اسلامی را به مرتبه دیگری از خونخواری رساندند.کشتار اخیر حتی در این کارنامه ننگین شرم اور ترین نمونه این توحش و تروریسم است.

[HRANA English @HRANA_English]

Day 23 of Iran protests: HRANA reports 4,029 confirmed deaths, 9,049 cases under review, 5,811 severely injured, and 26,015 arrests across 188 cities. Internet shutdown, media pressure, and security clampdown persist.
See details in HRANA’s report:
https://t.co/FvCPlRk5QU

[Nima Nematollahi ✌🏽 @nima_n]

@ryangrim @mehdirhasan @VanLathan this discourse is related to a question you asked Prof. Banai.

It’s important that Ryan is calling this behavior out, IMHO.