In the past year the Iranian government has hanged some 1,000 people for a number of different crimes including speaking out against the government and being gay. In mocking celebration of the death toll, David Keyes, executive director of Advancing Human Rights, hosted an impromptu ice cream party in front NYU where Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was giving a speech. Keyes, armed with an armful of balloons and ice cream followed Zarif and his deputy ministers around the block, pushing for answers about the hangings.
“If anyone deserves to be humiliated and punked, it is a regime that hangs gays, murders poets and tortures bloggers,” Keyes said to the New York Observer. “Satire is a profoundly powerful tool against dictators as we saw with North Korea’s hysterical response to The Interview. Tyrants silence and jail satirists because they fear them.”
Check out footage of David Keyes's ice cream party for justice in Iran AFTER THE JUMP…
