Douglas John Cameron is a Canadian musician and composer best known for writing and performing a protest song entitled "Mona with the Children" about a Persian Bahá"í girl aged 16, Mona Mahmudnizhad, who, in 1983, together with nine other Bahá"í women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, because of her membership in the Bahá"í Faith.
Career
Cameron recreated Mahmudnizhad"s story in a music video, Mona with the Children, which made the popular charts in Canada (#14 for the week of October 19, 1985). he also works with collaborator Jack Lenz (also a Baha"i) on children"s television, notably Treehouse, where he performs under the name Douglas John.