Thousands Rally Across Globe for Iranian Protesters
By VOA News
20 June 2009
Thousands of people gathered across Europe and the United States Saturday to show their solidarity with Iranian opposition protesters.
More than a thousand people marched in the streets of Hamburg, Germany, protesting the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Some of the demonstrators held green ribbons and photos of injured protesters in Iran, while others carried Iranian flags and signs reading, "Where is my vote?"
In France, thousands of people gathered north of Paris for a rally organized by Iranian exiles with the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
It is an umbrella group for the Iranian People's Mujahedeen Organization, which is listed as a terrorist group by the United States and was recently removed from that designation by the European Union.
Protest organizers called for Iran to embrace a secular democracy.
Demonstrators also gathered in New York City and Washington, D.C., in support of Iran's opposition groups.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.
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