On January 15, as part of a brutal crackdown on domestic opposition, the Iranian government arrested another 10 members of the Students for Freedom and Equality in Iran (also known as the Radical Left). Two more students were arrested on January 24. More than 40 members of the group are now behind bars at Iran’s notorious Evin prison or have been released on bail
On December 4, Iranian police forces arrested 33 students who were participating in demonstrations marking “Students Day.” The day commemorates the deaths of three students who were killed by the government of the US-supported Shah of Iran on December 7, 1953, while they protested the visit of then-US Vice President Richard Nixon. (See “Iranian government cracks down on student protests.”)
The students involved in the recent wave of protests have denounced both the Iranian government and the war plans of US imperialism. The arrests of the students reflect a growing crisis of the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which is responding to popular unrest with increased repression.
The 12 students arrested this month may have been involved in organizing protests against the earlier arrests. The Radical Left is a group of socialist students that is not affiliated with any political party. It consists of students who have come into opposition to both the current Iranian government and the official Reformist movement associated with former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Hashemi Rafsanjani.
So far, only seven of the students arrested in December have been released after meeting a very high bail. A few other students are eligible for release on bail, but their families have been unable to meet the cost. Most of the students are not eligible for release at all and are still being interrogated.
Some of those arrested in early December were allowed to meet relatives earlier this month. According to reports from family members, the students have been kept in solitary confinement throughout the period of their detention. The students are under intense pressure to confess on television that they are linked to exile groups and have attempted to destabilize the country.
There are reports that several students show signs of having been severely beaten. One has reportedly broken his leg and shoulder, while others have cuts and injuries on their bodies.
Before the recent arrests, the WSWS spoke to an activist in Iran who described the reported treatment meted out by the Iranian government. “We have heard that some students on several occasions were referred to the prison hospital,” he said. “We think that they are mostly under psychological pressure, but beating is something normal to make prisoners cooperate with the interrogators. One student has reportedly attempted suicide and was sent to the prison hospital.” (See “An interview with an Iranian activist on arrests of left-wing students.”)
There are indications that the treatment meted out by the Iranian government against student protesters is becoming much more severe. Earlier this month, a Kurdish student, who was not a member of the Students for Freedom and Equality, was killed while in the custody of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. The parents of the student said that before he was killed, he “showed evident signs of torture and abuse.”
Since December, scattered gatherings have been held at different campuses across the country to demand the students’ release. Many of those involved in these gatherings were summoned to the so-called “Disciplinary Committee” located in their universities for questioning. The government was evidently closely monitoring those arrested this month.
In addition to facing arrest, students involved in the protests have been threatened with disciplinary action, including being barred from their classes.
Both the timing of the arrests and the location of the imprisoned students highlight the utterly reactionary and antidemocratic character of the Iranian regime. The students were arrested on a day commemorating the US-backed Shah’s brutal actions against the Iranian population. The Evin prison where they are being held was created by the hated SAVAK domestic intelligence agency under the Shah. Ever since, it has been used for the holding and torture of political prisoners.
The Socialist Equality Party and its student organization, the International Students for Social Equality, demand the immediate release of all the arrested students. All charges must be dropped. These students have committed no crime. They have done nothing but voice their entirely justified opposition to war and the government of Iran.
The World Socialist Web Site will continue to follow the treatment of the arrested students closely. The WSWS calls on its readers to send letters of protest to the Iranian Interests Section in the United States at requests@daftar.org. Please send copies to the WSWS here.
The students arrested in January are:
1. Amin Ghazaie2. Bijan Sabagh3. Soroush Dashtestani4. Anahita Hosseini5. Morteza Eslahchi6. Bita Samimizad7. Behzad Bagheri8. Morteza Khedmatloo9. Soroush Sabet10. Mohammad Pourabdollah11. Mohammad Zera’ati12. Farzad Hasanzadeh
The students who were arrested on December 5 and are still in prison are:
1. Saeed Habibi2. Peyman Piran3. Mehdi Gerailoo4. Nader Ehsani5. Behrooz Karimizadeh6. Ali Salem7. Ali Kolaie8. Abed Tavancheh9. Sadra Pirhayati10. Saeed Aghamali11. Keyvan Amiri Elyasi12. Hadi Salari13. Amir Aghaie14. Soroush Hashempour15. Mehdi Allahyari16. Majid Ashrafnejad17. Reza Arab18. Mohammad Saleh Aboman19. Sohrab Karimi20. Farshid Doostipour21. Javad Alizadeh
Those students arrested and released on bail are:
1. Anoosheh Azadbar2. Ilnaz Jamshidi3. Roozbeh Safshekan4. Roozbehan Amiri5. Farshid Farhadi Ahangaran6. Milad Omrani7. Mohsen Ghamin8. Nasim Soltanbeigi9. Amirhossein Mehrzad10. Mahsa Mohebi11. Saeed Aghakhani12. Okhtai Hosseini13. Arash Pakzad
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Mitglied der Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft im Iran festgenommen
Mitglied der Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft im Iran festgenommen
Unliebsamer Autor hinter Gittern
Von Hajo Jahn
Ein verzweifelter Hilferuf erreichte die Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft am Mittwoch vergangener Woche in Wuppertal: „Es geht mir definitiv nicht gut und ich habe ein ernstes Problem. Am Montag dieser Woche hat der Iranische Geheimdienst bei einem Überfall einen meiner besten Schriftsteller und Übersetzer verhaftet: Amin Ghazaei.“ Absender der Mail war Sam Vaseghi, in Schweden lebender Exil-Iraner mit deutschem Pass.
Schriftsteller Amin Ghazaei Quelle: Archiv Sam VaseghiDer Ingenieur und Ökonom Vashegi ist selbst ein Dichter. Er setzt sich ehrenamtlich unter anderem als Verleger für verfolgte Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus seinem Geburtsland ein. Dabei arbeitet er mit der Wuppertaler Literaturgesellschaft beim Internetprojekt „Iranisches Exil-Archiv“ zusammen, Dr. Vaseghi (41) und der 29jährige Ghazaei sind Mitglieder der Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft.Wie ernst die Situation ist, verdeutlicht der zweite Satz der Mail aus Schweden: „Ich muss binnen ca. 48 Stunden (es ist bereits Mittwoch) eine kritische Unterstützer-Masse im Aus-/Inland erreichen, falls er bis dahin noch lebt, damit die Sache innerhalb der Teheraner Regierung nach oben eskaliert und Amin nichts ‚zufällig zustößt’.“Amin Ghazaei ist nach den vorliegenden Informationen vom Geheimdienst in Teheran zusammen mit weiteren Komilitonen abgeführt worden. Es wird vermutet, dass es sich dabei um eine Zahl von zehn Studenten handelt. Recherchen eines dpa-Korrespondenten vor Ort stießen – wie nicht anders zu erwarten – auf eine Mauer des Schweigens bei offiziellen Stellen. Geheimdienste geben keine Pressemitteilungen heraus; meistens auch nicht die Namen ihrer Opfer. Was mit ihnen passiert, wenn die Proteste aus westlichen Demokratien nichts fruchten, weiß man. Deshalb hat die Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft sofort die deutsche Schriftstellersektion des PEN und die Menschenrechtsorganisation amnesty international informiert. Diese überprüft nach Angaben einer Sprecherin gegenüber der Deutschen Presseagentur (die ebenfalls von der ELS-Gesellschaft informiert wurde), wie man sich in einer Eilaktion für die Inhaftierten einsetzen kann. Vermutlich befänden sich die jungen Leute in einem Teheraner Gefängnis.Grund für die Festnahme des Autors, der zur jüngeren Generation der Literaten seines Landes zählt, sei möglicherweise die jüngste Internet-Veröffentlichung seiner Übersetzungen, erklärt Sam Vaseghi. Hierzu gehöre die Titel „Seduction“ des französischen Philosophen Jean Baudrillard sowie „Gender Trouble“ der Feministin Judith Butler – „Titel, die für sich sprechen!“ Seit den Festnahmen hätten die Familien weder von Ghazaei noch von den Studenten ein Lebenszeichen erhalten, sagt der Verleger. Angesichts ähnlicher Vorgänge im Iran müsse das Schlimmste befürchtet werden. Der verschwundene Autor publiziert in Europa im Verlag Nashre (Paris). Seine Übersetzung von „Seduction“ auf Farsi erscheint in dieser Woche auch im (Exil-)Verlag „Iran Open Publishing Group.“
link: http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12010
Unliebsamer Autor hinter Gittern
Von Hajo Jahn
Ein verzweifelter Hilferuf erreichte die Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft am Mittwoch vergangener Woche in Wuppertal: „Es geht mir definitiv nicht gut und ich habe ein ernstes Problem. Am Montag dieser Woche hat der Iranische Geheimdienst bei einem Überfall einen meiner besten Schriftsteller und Übersetzer verhaftet: Amin Ghazaei.“ Absender der Mail war Sam Vaseghi, in Schweden lebender Exil-Iraner mit deutschem Pass.Schriftsteller Amin Ghazaei Quelle: Archiv Sam VaseghiDer Ingenieur und Ökonom Vashegi ist selbst ein Dichter. Er setzt sich ehrenamtlich unter anderem als Verleger für verfolgte Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus seinem Geburtsland ein. Dabei arbeitet er mit der Wuppertaler Literaturgesellschaft beim Internetprojekt „Iranisches Exil-Archiv“ zusammen, Dr. Vaseghi (41) und der 29jährige Ghazaei sind Mitglieder der Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft.Wie ernst die Situation ist, verdeutlicht der zweite Satz der Mail aus Schweden: „Ich muss binnen ca. 48 Stunden (es ist bereits Mittwoch) eine kritische Unterstützer-Masse im Aus-/Inland erreichen, falls er bis dahin noch lebt, damit die Sache innerhalb der Teheraner Regierung nach oben eskaliert und Amin nichts ‚zufällig zustößt’.“Amin Ghazaei ist nach den vorliegenden Informationen vom Geheimdienst in Teheran zusammen mit weiteren Komilitonen abgeführt worden. Es wird vermutet, dass es sich dabei um eine Zahl von zehn Studenten handelt. Recherchen eines dpa-Korrespondenten vor Ort stießen – wie nicht anders zu erwarten – auf eine Mauer des Schweigens bei offiziellen Stellen. Geheimdienste geben keine Pressemitteilungen heraus; meistens auch nicht die Namen ihrer Opfer. Was mit ihnen passiert, wenn die Proteste aus westlichen Demokratien nichts fruchten, weiß man. Deshalb hat die Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft sofort die deutsche Schriftstellersektion des PEN und die Menschenrechtsorganisation amnesty international informiert. Diese überprüft nach Angaben einer Sprecherin gegenüber der Deutschen Presseagentur (die ebenfalls von der ELS-Gesellschaft informiert wurde), wie man sich in einer Eilaktion für die Inhaftierten einsetzen kann. Vermutlich befänden sich die jungen Leute in einem Teheraner Gefängnis.Grund für die Festnahme des Autors, der zur jüngeren Generation der Literaten seines Landes zählt, sei möglicherweise die jüngste Internet-Veröffentlichung seiner Übersetzungen, erklärt Sam Vaseghi. Hierzu gehöre die Titel „Seduction“ des französischen Philosophen Jean Baudrillard sowie „Gender Trouble“ der Feministin Judith Butler – „Titel, die für sich sprechen!“ Seit den Festnahmen hätten die Familien weder von Ghazaei noch von den Studenten ein Lebenszeichen erhalten, sagt der Verleger. Angesichts ähnlicher Vorgänge im Iran müsse das Schlimmste befürchtet werden. Der verschwundene Autor publiziert in Europa im Verlag Nashre (Paris). Seine Übersetzung von „Seduction“ auf Farsi erscheint in dieser Woche auch im (Exil-)Verlag „Iran Open Publishing Group.“
link: http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12010
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Radical Left, Iran’s Last Legal Dissidents, Until Now
By NAZILA FATHIPublished: January 20, 2008
TEHRAN — In early December, a surprising scene unfolded at Tehran University: 500 Marxist students held aloft portraits of Che Guevara to protest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies. Smaller groups of Marxist students held similar protests in several other cities.
Political protest has been harshly suppressed under the current Iranian government, especially dissent linked to the West. But the radical left, despite its antireligious and antigovernment message, has been permitted relative freedom. This may be, analysts say, because, like the government, it rejects the liberal reform movement and attacks the West.
“The government practically permitted the left to operate starting five years ago so that they would confront religious liberals,” said Saeed Leylaz, a political analyst in Tehran. “But that led to the spread of a new virus.”
In recent weeks, the leaders of the Marxist student movement have been arrested, suggesting that the government is worrying about the size of the demonstrations and the growing attraction of an ideology that is deeply antithetical to its own.
Morad Saghafi, a political analyst and the editor in chief of Goftegoo magazine, said that it was not so strange that there were leftists but that it was significant that they were radical leftists.
“They are showing a kind of radicalism to reform, religion and the current situation,” he said.
Even some of those who object to President Ahmadinejad say permitting the growth of Marxist student movements is dangerous.
For example, former President Mohammad Khatami, a moderate by Iranian standards, recently raised concern over the growth of leftists at universities. He drew a comparison with the struggles before the 1979 revolution and said after the shah’s government had banned religious groups, leftist groups encouraged armed struggle against him, according to the news agency ISNA.
Leftist students use an anti-imperialist discourse toward the United States and say they have no plans to overthrow the Iranian government. But they refer to the government as a capitalist regime and condemn pro-democracy politicians who support change as “bourgeois.”
In a leftist publication called Khak, meaning earth, a member who was jailed wrote in an editorial in May, “In this leftist movement we need to move based on the ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin.” Marxists need “grass-roots and radical social movements,” he emphasized.
Another member, a woman who has an anonymous blog at faaryaad.blogfa.com (faaryaad means shout), writes “Reform died, long live revolution.”
One leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal, said, “We think the regime is a capitalist regime and Mr. Ahmadinejad is a true fascist.”
Members are atheists and attack poverty in Iran as well as other countries, including the West. They consider no socialist country their role model, oppose pro-democracy students and accuse them of trying to reform a system that cannot be reformed.
Yet they have no specific agenda for change and seem almost nihilistic at times.
“We don’t think we can change anything in the near future,” said a 22-year-old student at Tehran University and member of a group called the Radical Marxists, who asked not to be identified. “But as students we think we can transfer our knowledge about class, capitalism and equality to society, especially the workers.”
Another member, Shahin, 21, who said his father was also a Marxist and was executed by the government in 1988, said the students ultimately want “free education, free health care and higher salaries for workers.”
Analysts familiar with them said leftist student groups began to emerge in the early 2000s when the democracy movement was suffering setbacks and many of their supporters were becoming disillusioned.
The government ignored the leftist students until December when the government began cracking down on their leaders.
As in many countries, a majority of intellectuals in Iran has been influenced by Marxist ideas since the 19th century. Much of the literature written since then is closely interwoven with leftist notions. However, Marxists never gained power here. They played an important role in the success of the 1979 revolution but they were soon marginalized by the Islamists and their members were forced into exile. Many were executed in 1988.
Authorities allowed all of Marx’s books to be published after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Leftist books sell very well these days, one bookstore said. The store said the most popular books were those about the Confederation of Iranian Students, the most active organized opposition during the two decades before the 1979 revolution. Many of its members were influenced by leftist ideas.
Now, once again, it appears the government has decided to suppress the left. The number of arrests has reached 40 and those detained remain in the notorious Evin prison.
At least three Marxist groups operate at the universities around Iran. The Radical Marxists have the most supporters, according to students. The other two organizations are workers groups.
The 22-year-old Radical Marxists member said that she had rejected Iran’s laws against women when she was 7 and had to wear the Islamic hood known as a maghnaeh to cover her hair for the first time. “In religion class, we always got angry as women when we read in the books that the head of the family is the man,” she said.
Reza Sharifi, 34, the leader of the youth branch of Mosharekat, a party that seeks change, said it was hard for the government to suppress Marxist students at the same time it was seeking better relations with leftist leaders worldwide.
“The government paved the way for leftist movements in the country when its best friends became Castro and Chávez,” he said, referring to Fidel Castro of Cuba and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
“The whole idea was that any country that was against America was on our side,” he said. “As a result, all communist leaders became the Islamic Republic’s best friends.”
link:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=left+in+iran&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
the Iranian philosopher was arrested
Amin Ghazaei (1979), the Iranian philosopher, ideologist and translator and a prominent, active personality of the leftist students’ and academicians’ movement, was arrested on January 14th 2008 by the intelligence service of the Islamic Republic, which, two days later, ransacked his house and investigated his private rooms.Earlier last year, during the December 4th 2007 protests held on campuses of Iranian Universities, including the especially prominent demonstrations at the University of Teheran, over 40 leftist students were arrested. Facts underscore that the second wave of arrests commenced this week. The arrests include that of Amin Ghazaei and eight other students and academicians.
Amin Ghazaei, the chief editor of the electronic journal ArtCult, is exceptional because he has never delivered his works to the Islamic Republic’s censorship administration (the Ershad) for approval. His many articles were published broadly by respected Farsi internet journals, e.g. MindMotor, màjàlehye she’r dàr honàre nevisesh, and dàvat. Two of his most prominent books and theses are No Happening (hich ettefagh) and Truth (hàghighàt).
Amin Ghazaei, who is also executive editor of the àndisheh (Thought) editorials of màjàlehye she’r, has recently written co-authored (with Babàk Sàlimizadeh) the book honàre mossàllah (Armed Art). Parts of the book have been already published by internet media.
In addition to his own works, the ideologist, Aimn Ghazaei, has made essential contributions to literature by translating and publishing banned books in Farsi, for example: Seduction by Jean Baudrillard, Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, and Cyborg-Manifest by Donna Haraway. The first two books are now under print by nàshre she’re paris and nàshre ketabhaye jibiye iran (an Iran Open Publishing Group Editorial).
Amin Ghazaei’s general health is poor. His present location and medical condition following the arrest by the intelligence service of the Islamic Republic is still completely unknown. From similar cases we suspect that he is currently subjected to physical and mental torture, with possibly irreversible traumatic consequences.
Short list of most recent articles by Amin Ghazaei
-The Family Machine
-A Ghost Over The Bed
-Sadistic Writing
-Interior Of The Mirror
-The Words On The Gravestone
-The Libidinal Holocaust
-Postmodernism: Rewriting Of Hegemony
-The Knees Of The Mass
-What Is Armed Art, Armed With?
-The Children Society
link: http://web.mac.com/renkat/BABEL_FRUIT/Blog/Entries/2008/1/17_Amin_Ghazaei_.html
petition on line by amnesty international
http://www.amnesty.ca/urgentaction/All except two of the 20-30 students arrested for participating in the demonstrations for the National University Students' Day on 7 December 2007 are still detained without charge. At least nine other students, including Anahita Hosseini and Bita Naghashiyan, have been arrested in recent days. They may be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression and association. It is feared that they could be tortured or otherwise ill-treated in detention.
According to information available to Amnesty International, students Milad Moini and Younes Mir Hosseini have been released. However, the organization has a list of 52 names of all those who have been detained because of their alleged links with the student demonstrations, though there is no further information on the circumstances of their arrest or on their current whereabouts.
Activists from two students' groups, the Office for Strengthening Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat) and Students for Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab) are among those who took part in these demonstrations. Before they were arrested many of the students received mobile phone text messages that threatened them with arrest if they participated in the events.
One detained student, whose identity is not known, is believed to have attempted suicide. Unconfirmed reports state that pressure exerted by officials and harsh detention conditions may have been factors in this suicide attempt. The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has suggested that students were in possession of "catapults, sound grenades [sic], alcoholic drinks and misleading books." Students groups have dismissed these claims as fabrications.
The Islamic Republic News Agency reported on 15 January that the judiciary spokesman, Ali Reza Jamshidi, stated that 11 university students "arrested during the past month’s student unrest" would soon be released on bail, without specifying the identity of those to be released. However, other reports received on 15 January
indicate that an additional nine students have been detained in Tehran, apparently for their involvement in the demonstrations for the University Students’ Day.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Student groups have been at the forefront of demands for greater human rights in Iran in recent years. Since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005, there have been increasing restrictions on civil society in Iran. In April 2007, Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie publicly accused student activists and campaigners for the rights of women in Iran of being part of an "enemy conspiracy".
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Using your own words, please choose a few of the suggestions below to create a personal appeal and send it as quickly as possible: [click here for a brief guide to help you write your letter]:
calling on the authorities to release all students detained in December 2007 in connection with National University Students Day who are held solely on account of the peaceful exercise of their rights;
calling for any other students in detention to be tried promptly and fairly, in accordance with international fair trial standards, on recognisably criminal charges or else released;
seeking details of any charges brought against those in detention;
seeking assurances that none of those arrested is subject to torture or other ill treatment;
calling on the authorities to ensure that these detainees have access to relatives, legal representation, and any medical attention they may require;
reminding the authorities that confessions extracted under torture are prohibited by Article 38 of the constitution of Iran, which says that "All forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden," and that Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), of which Article 7 states that "No one shall be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment
APPEALS TO:
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader
Islamic Republic Street
Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir
Salutation: Your Excellency
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh
Office of the Head of the Judiciary
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., South of Serah-e Jomhouri
Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (Subject line: FAO Ayatollah)
Salutation: Your Excellency
http://www.amnesty.ca/urgentaction/COPIES TO:
Mr Seyed Mahdi Mohebi
Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy for the Islamic Republic of Iran
245 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2K2
Fax: (613) 232-5712
Please take action without delay. Thank you!
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Dear Comrades
Dear Comrades
While the filthy hands of despotism kidnapped and arrested some of our friends on Monday, while the Equality and Freedom Seeking University Students are detained every day, your protest in such a cold weather gave us and the families of the arrested students hope and motivation for their release. Your humanitarian efforts for their freedom should force the jailors to release our comrades.
We find you beside ourselves, find yourselves beside us. The attempt for equality and freedom knows no border. The recent wave of arrests of our friends made the attempt for their release one thousand times more.
Long live Freedom,
Long live Equality,
Equality and Freedom Seeking Students of the Universities of Iran
Dey 25 1386
(Jan. 14 2008)
While the filthy hands of despotism kidnapped and arrested some of our friends on Monday, while the Equality and Freedom Seeking University Students are detained every day, your protest in such a cold weather gave us and the families of the arrested students hope and motivation for their release. Your humanitarian efforts for their freedom should force the jailors to release our comrades.
We find you beside ourselves, find yourselves beside us. The attempt for equality and freedom knows no border. The recent wave of arrests of our friends made the attempt for their release one thousand times more.
Long live Freedom,
Long live Equality,
Equality and Freedom Seeking Students of the Universities of Iran
Dey 25 1386
(Jan. 14 2008)
İran, hapse attığı öğrencileri serbest bırakmalı
İran, hapse attığı öğrencileri serbest bırakmalıİran'da Üniversite Öğrencileri Günü olarak kutlanan 7 Aralık'ın arifesinde, 30'dan fazla 'eşitlik ve özgürlük yanlısı öğrenci' gözaltına alındı. Gözaltılar halen sürmekte ve içerideki öğrencilerin sayısı 40'ı bulmuş durumda. Şaşırtıcı bir şekilde, eski imparatorluk rejimi diktatörlüğüne karşı mücadelenin simgesi olan 7 Aralık, İslami hükümet tarafından da hoşgörülmemekte. Savaşa ve yaptırımlara karşı çıkışın haykırıldığı bu tören sırasında yaşananlar, eski hükümetin tutumunun bir tekrarına sahne oldu. Üniversite Öğrencileri Günü'nün 50 yıl öncesine uzanan bir geleneği var ve gözaltına alınanlar ülkemizin en dürüst çocukları. Haklarında sapan taşımak, sözüm ona sakıncalı kitaplar bulundurmak, alkol, hatta uyuşturucu kullanmak, ses bombası hazırlamak gibi asılsız ve saçma suçlamalar yapılmaktadır. Öğrencilerden birinin intihara teşebbüs ettiği yönünde duyumlar almaktayız. Şu an Evin Hapishanesi'nde hiçbir bilgi verilmeksizin ve aileleriyle görüştürülmeksizin tutulan öğrencilerin koşulsuz ve derhal serbest bırakılmasını istiyoruz. Bütün dünyayı bu talebimizde bize destek olmaya ve bu bildiriyi imzalamaya çağırıyoruz. (Üniversite Öğrencileri İçin Özgürlük Komitesi (Equality and Freedom Seeking University Students), imzalar ve destek mesajları için: seeking.committee@gmail.com
daha fazla bilgi için: http://www.azady-barabary.net/
Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft: Iranischer Autor festgenommen
Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft: Iranischer Autor festgenommenGrund für die Festnahme sei möglicherweise die jüngste Internet-Veröffentlichung von Übersetzungen
WUPPERTAL (BLK) – Der iranische Autor und Übersetzer Amin Ghazaei ist nach Angaben der Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft (Wuppertal) vom Geheimdienst in Teheran festgenommen worden. Ghazaei, Mitglied der deutschen Literaturorganisation, sei am vergangenen Montag (14. Januar 2008) zusammen mit einer Gruppe von Studenten abgeführt worden, teilte ein Sprecher der Gesellschaft am Donnerstag (17. Januar 2008) in Wuppertal mit. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation amnesty international überprüft nach Angaben einer Sprecherin, sich in einer Eilaktion für die Inhaftierten einzusetzen. Vermutlich befänden sich die Verschleppten in einem Teheraner Gefängnis.
Grund für die Festnahme des Autors, der zu der jüngeren Generation von Literaten seines Landes gehöre, sei möglicherweise die jüngste Internet-Veröffentlichung seiner Übersetzungen, sagte der Verleger Ghazaeis der Deutschen Presse-Agentur dpa. Hierzu gehöre auch ein Titel des französischen Philosophen Jean Baudrillard.
Seit den Festnahmen hätten die Familien weder von Ghazaei noch von den Studenten ein Lebenszeichen erhalten, sagte der Verleger Sam Vashegi. Angesichts ähnlicher Vorgänge im Iran müsse das Schlimmste befürchtet werden. Der verschwundene Autor publiziere in Europa im Verlag Nashre (Paris).
Die Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft hat nach den Worten ihres Vorsitzenden Hajo Jahn den iranischen Botschafter in Berlin in einem Brief zur „unverzüglichen Freilassung“ des festgenommenen Schriftstellers aufgefordert. Mit ihren international rund 1400 Mitgliedern und der Internet-Plattform www.exil-archiv.de kümmert sich die Wuppertaler Organisation um das Schicksal verfolgter Künstler und Autoren. (dpa/wip)
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Arrest of students in Iran continues
Arrest of students in Iran continues“Freedom and Equality Seeking Students” in Iran in a statement issued on Wednesday January 16, have announced that the Iranian authorities have arrested yet another group of students activists. As before, the security forces have literally abducted these students from their homes and dormitories. In the aforementioned statement the names of 10 students have been published. They are: 1-Arash Dashtestani; 2- Amin Ghazaie; 3- Bijzhan Sabagh; 4- Anahita Hosseini; 5- Morteza Khedmatlou; 6-Mohammad Pour Abdollah; 7- Bita Samimzad; 8- Behzad Bagheri; 9- Soroush Sabet; 10 Morteza Aslahchi. The details of other detainees will be announced as they become available.
The number of jailed students imprisoned since December 2, 2007 has risen to 44. The names of the rest of the students are as follows:
1. Mehdi Gerailoo
2. Nader Ehsani
3. Anoosheh Azadbar
4. Ilnaz Jamshidi
5. Behrooz Karimizadeh
6. Saeed Habibi
7. Ali Salem
8. Ali Kolaie
9. Amir Mehrdad
10. Mohsen Ghamin
11. Milad Omrani
12. Abed Tavancheh
13. Sadra Pirhayati
14. Roozbeh Safshekan
15. Saeed Aghamali
16. Roozbehan Amiri
17. Nasim Soltanbeigi
18. Mahsa Mohebi
19. Keyvan Amiri Alyasi
20. Hadi Salari
21. Amir Aghaie
22. Farshid Farhadi Ahangaran
23. Saeed Aghakhani
24. Okhtai Hosseini
25. Soroush Hashempour
26. Arash Pakzad
27. Mehdi Allahyari
28. Majid Ashrafnejad
29. Peyman Piran
30. Reza Arab
31. Mohammad Saleh Aboman
32. Sohrab Karimi
33. Farshid Doostipour
34. Javad Alizadeh
35. Amin Ghaza’ee
36. Anahita Hoseini
37. Bita SamimiZad
38. Bizhan Sabbagh
39. Behzad Bagheri
40. Mohamad PourAbdollah
41. Morteza Eslahchi
42. Morteza khedmatloo
43. Soroush Sabet
44. Soroush Dashtestani
These students have been arrested for participating in a peaceful demonstration to commemorate December 7 (16th Azar Solar calendar) the National Students Day in Iran. Students in Iran have been commemorating this day since 1953 where three students were killed at the hands of the previous monarchist regime.
Apart from calling for freedom and equality, this year with the looming threat of US war against Iran, the Student activists had opted for a call to end the treat of the war and war mongering of the US and The Islamic Republic as one of the theme of their rallies.
The heavy-handed approach of the security forces in dealing with the students defies every international laws and protocols on individual and civil rights. The news and information reaching outside Iran indicate that these students have been subjected to mistreatment and torture. The arbitrary nature of their arrests and the fact that no formal charges have been lodged against the students and the fact that the families and the lawyers of the students have been prevented from any contacts with them are all serious causes for concern.
We call on Amnesty international and other human rights institutions to intervene and act to put pressure on the Iranian authorities to release the detained students. We call on Amnesty International to take on the case of these students, as they are prisoners of conscience, and intervene to secure the:
- The immediate release of all jailed students in Iran.
- The immediate halt to mental and physical tortures of the jailed students.
- Access to be granted to the lawyers to meet the students.
- Access to be given to the families of the jailed students to meet with their loved ones.
Furthermore we call on Amnesty international to dispatch a delegation to Iran to co-ordinate and oversee the above activities alongside the families and lawyers of the jailed students.
Campaign to Defend the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran
January 2008
Amin Ghaza’ee was arrested ...
Amin Ghaza’ee, Iranian Marxist thinker, a prominent translator of Marxism into Farsi culture was arrested on Monday, January 14, 2008 by the Ministry of Intelligence agents of Islamic Republic of Iran. Amin Ghaza’ee, along with 15 more of leftist students were attacked in a gathering aimed to peacefully discuss and consider ways to support their friends and colleagues who were arrested more then 45 days ago taken to an unknown place by the agents of the same Ministry. Although the exact number of the students arrested in the gathering on Monday is not known yet, some say up to 15 names have been confirmed by family and friends.Amin Ghaza’ee’s arrest is especially taken central to the occasion as he is not known as an activist but a keen penman who spent years of his young life to spread ideas by authoring and interpreting theories making it rather available and make sense in Farsi. His arrest has brought about much tension inside Iranian new generation of literary community.
It would be greatly appreciated if the news about Ghaza’ee’s fate in prison, and his colleagues whose names is provided at the end of this letter, be considered and followed up by your organization.
Amin Ghaza’ee
Anahita Hoseini
Bita SamimiZad
Bizhan Sabbagh
Behzad Bagheri
Mohamad PourAbdollah
Morteza Eslahchi
Morteza khedmatloo
Soroush Sabet
Soroush Dashtestani
Your very Sincerely
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Iran: End Widespread Crackdown on Civil Society
“You Can Detain Anyone for Anything”Iran’s Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism
Individuals from an ever widening range of groups in Iran are subject to arrest on security grounds for political activism and peaceful dissent against the government. Those arrested are frequently detained in facilities operating outside the regular prison administration, most notoriously in Section 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, where they may be subjected to torture and abusive interrogation. After weeks or months the authorities frequently release those held on conditional bail or a suspended prison sentence, using the ever-present threat of a return to jail to intimidate them against further activism or open dissent.
Crackdowns on peaceful dissent have been a hallmark of all governments in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and there was already ample legal latitude for the persecution of government critics when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in August 2005. It is the great expansion in scope and number of individuals and activities persecuted by the government that seems to distinguish the Ahmadinejad period to date.
Since August 2005 Iranian security forces have detained at least 35 members of the Iranian women’s movement in Evin 209. They have also held teachers calling for better wages and pension plans, students and activists working towards social and political reform, as well as journalists and scholars with no history of activism. In the majority of these cases, the detainees have spent some or all of their detention in solitary confinement (sometimes for months), been denied access to counsel or visits with their families, and been put under severe psychological and physical pressure to give confessions, whether truthful or otherwise.
A set of laws within Iran’s Islamic Penal Code entitled “Offenses Against the National and International Security of the Country” (“Security Laws”), provide the government wide scope for suppressing any peaceful activity it perceives as critical of its policies. Iranian law also has grounds for denying basic due process rights to security detainees. Although the Iranian Constitution, Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Citizens Rights Law include a number of provisions on detainees’ rights and methods of interrogation, Iranian law also includes grounds for denying some of these rights and straying from prescribed procedures. More than in any other period in recent Iranian history, the authorities have used security legislation as a pretext for politically motivated arrests and detention. Often there is no warrant or other legal basis given for the arrest; instead the authorities interrogate detainees without an attorney present with the intention of “fishing” for a charge. This report begins by outlining the due process rights under Iran’s criminal procedure code, as well as the security-related provisions that effectively undercut those rights.
Another distinguishing feature of politically motivated arrests under the Ahmadinejad administration is the focus not on individuals’ actions, but on their connections to foreign institutions, individuals, or sources of funding. The government routinely applies Iran’s broadly conceived security laws to accuse anyone from women’s rights campaigners to union organizers to student leaders of “spying,” “acting against national security,” “receiving funding from abroad,” or “planning a soft revolution.” Recent United States government policy promoting allocations of funds for “regime change” in Iran has been seized upon by the Iranian government to accuse independent Iranian civil society activists of being the agents of foreign agendas. Prominent Iranian activists have pointed out the ways that the Iranian government has exploited the US allocation of these funds in order to intensify its crackdown on civil society.
Human Rights Watch is calling on the government of Iran to amend or abolish the vague security laws and other legislation that allow the government to arbitrarily suppress and punish individuals for peaceful political expression, association and assembly in breach of international human rights treaties to which Iran is party. It is also calling on the government to treat detainees in accordance with international standards, and to either bring Evin 209 under the supervision of the regular prisons administration or shut it down.
Human Rights Watch is also calling on the US government to engage Iranian civil society regarding its funding allocations so that US support is not an easy pretext for continuing repression.
Key Recommendations to the Government of Iran
Full recommendations to the Iranian government can be found in section VII.
Release all individuals currently deprived of their liberty for peacefully exercising their rights to free expression, association, and assembly.
Discipline or prosecute as appropriate officials at all levels of the Iranian Information Ministry responsible for the mistreatment of detainees at Evin 209 detention center. Bring Evin 209 under the supervision of the State Prisons and Security Corrective Measures Organization, or immediately close it.
Amend the “Offenses against the National and International Security of the Country” (the “Security Laws”) to define both “national security” and the breaches against it in narrow terms that do not unduly infringe upon internationally guaranteed rights of free speech and assembly (provisions of the Security Laws requiring specific attention are enumerated in the “Detailed Recommendations” in section VII).
Excise Laws in the Islamic Penal Code that criminalize “insults” against religious figures and government leaders.
Change provisions in the Code of Criminal Procedure that allow the right to counsel to be denied in the investigative phase of pretrial detention. The government should guarantee the right of security detainees to meet in private with legal counsel of their choosing throughout the period of their detention and trial.
Crackdowns on peaceful dissent have been a hallmark of all governments in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and there was already ample legal latitude for the persecution of government critics when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in August 2005. It is the great expansion in scope and number of individuals and activities persecuted by the government that seems to distinguish the Ahmadinejad period to date.
Since August 2005 Iranian security forces have detained at least 35 members of the Iranian women’s movement in Evin 209. They have also held teachers calling for better wages and pension plans, students and activists working towards social and political reform, as well as journalists and scholars with no history of activism. In the majority of these cases, the detainees have spent some or all of their detention in solitary confinement (sometimes for months), been denied access to counsel or visits with their families, and been put under severe psychological and physical pressure to give confessions, whether truthful or otherwise.
A set of laws within Iran’s Islamic Penal Code entitled “Offenses Against the National and International Security of the Country” (“Security Laws”), provide the government wide scope for suppressing any peaceful activity it perceives as critical of its policies. Iranian law also has grounds for denying basic due process rights to security detainees. Although the Iranian Constitution, Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Citizens Rights Law include a number of provisions on detainees’ rights and methods of interrogation, Iranian law also includes grounds for denying some of these rights and straying from prescribed procedures. More than in any other period in recent Iranian history, the authorities have used security legislation as a pretext for politically motivated arrests and detention. Often there is no warrant or other legal basis given for the arrest; instead the authorities interrogate detainees without an attorney present with the intention of “fishing” for a charge. This report begins by outlining the due process rights under Iran’s criminal procedure code, as well as the security-related provisions that effectively undercut those rights.
Another distinguishing feature of politically motivated arrests under the Ahmadinejad administration is the focus not on individuals’ actions, but on their connections to foreign institutions, individuals, or sources of funding. The government routinely applies Iran’s broadly conceived security laws to accuse anyone from women’s rights campaigners to union organizers to student leaders of “spying,” “acting against national security,” “receiving funding from abroad,” or “planning a soft revolution.” Recent United States government policy promoting allocations of funds for “regime change” in Iran has been seized upon by the Iranian government to accuse independent Iranian civil society activists of being the agents of foreign agendas. Prominent Iranian activists have pointed out the ways that the Iranian government has exploited the US allocation of these funds in order to intensify its crackdown on civil society.
Human Rights Watch is calling on the government of Iran to amend or abolish the vague security laws and other legislation that allow the government to arbitrarily suppress and punish individuals for peaceful political expression, association and assembly in breach of international human rights treaties to which Iran is party. It is also calling on the government to treat detainees in accordance with international standards, and to either bring Evin 209 under the supervision of the regular prisons administration or shut it down.
Human Rights Watch is also calling on the US government to engage Iranian civil society regarding its funding allocations so that US support is not an easy pretext for continuing repression.
Key Recommendations to the Government of Iran
Full recommendations to the Iranian government can be found in section VII.
Release all individuals currently deprived of their liberty for peacefully exercising their rights to free expression, association, and assembly.
Discipline or prosecute as appropriate officials at all levels of the Iranian Information Ministry responsible for the mistreatment of detainees at Evin 209 detention center. Bring Evin 209 under the supervision of the State Prisons and Security Corrective Measures Organization, or immediately close it.
Amend the “Offenses against the National and International Security of the Country” (the “Security Laws”) to define both “national security” and the breaches against it in narrow terms that do not unduly infringe upon internationally guaranteed rights of free speech and assembly (provisions of the Security Laws requiring specific attention are enumerated in the “Detailed Recommendations” in section VII).
Excise Laws in the Islamic Penal Code that criminalize “insults” against religious figures and government leaders.
Change provisions in the Code of Criminal Procedure that allow the right to counsel to be denied in the investigative phase of pretrial detention. The government should guarantee the right of security detainees to meet in private with legal counsel of their choosing throughout the period of their detention and trial.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
a question about Iran and the recently arrested students
Socialist Party (Red-Green Alliance; Unity List) in Danish Parliament asked theDanish Government a question about Iran and the recently arrested students:"Has Denmark protested the recent series of serious human right violations inIran, including arrests of studentleaders, death penalties for homosexuals, andprosecution of womens rights activists?Background for the question:Lately 30 students have been arrested or kidnapped for planning peacefuldemonstrations. Delaram Ali, a women activist, was recently sentenced whippingand 28 months of jail for participating in a peaceful demonstration last year.Recently yet another death penalty has been sentenced due to the persons sexualorientation."
Sunday, January 6, 2008
An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Ban ki-Moon
An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Ban ki-MoonYour Excellency:
You are certainly aware that a lot of Iranian political prisoners were executed in Islamic Republic prisons in Summer 1367 right after the confirmation and signature of Resolution No. 598 concerning the stopping of hostility between Iran and Iraq. These prisoners were all buried in mass graves. This project which was in continuation of execution of Iranian political prisoners, particularly the leftists in 1360, has been one of the most catastrophic genocides ever taken place. It has been also in continuation of the vast project of the Chain Murders. It is necessary to mention that the reports of Amnesty International has confirmed the vast measures of this tragedy. However, other international organizations and human rights organizations have been generally silent about this tragic situation. The horrible measures of this crime against humanity have not clearly been disclosed to the people of Iran and the world.
Your Excellency:
It should be mentioned that at the beginning of the commemoration of University Students’ Day on 7th December 2007, more than 40 leftist students of Iran universities intending to celebrate the University Students’ Day, according to an old tradition held in Iranian universities every year, were unknowingly arrested by Security Officials of Islamic Republic Regime. These arrests still continue. Certainly, you know that the Marxist and socialist students of Iran, constantly volunteer to fight against war, dictatorship, and foreign power’s domination. They are forerunners in pursuing persistently the democratic demands through the university students’ protests. But the Islamic Republic having exercised violent and oppressive fights against the Iranian students has made vast actions by kidnapping and arresting the students. No acceptable reasons were given by the jurisdiction authorities and Islamic Republic Information and Security Officials why they have arrested and accused students of unclear charges and where they are being imprisoned.
It should be mentioned that at the beginning of the commemoration of University Students’ Day on 7th December 2007, more than 40 leftist students of Iran universities intending to celebrate the University Students’ Day, according to an old tradition held in Iranian universities every year, were unknowingly arrested by Security Officials of Islamic Republic Regime. These arrests still continue. Certainly, you know that the Marxist and socialist students of Iran, constantly volunteer to fight against war, dictatorship, and foreign power’s domination. They are forerunners in pursuing persistently the democratic demands through the university students’ protests. But the Islamic Republic having exercised violent and oppressive fights against the Iranian students has made vast actions by kidnapping and arresting the students. No acceptable reasons were given by the jurisdiction authorities and Islamic Republic Information and Security Officials why they have arrested and accused students of unclear charges and where they are being imprisoned.
Your Excellency:
The numerous reports presented annually by the United Nations Human Rights Watch and Organization of International Amnesty indicate clearly the abolishment of human basic rights in Iran including the freedom of idea and expression , prohibition of torturing, having right to protest and right to hold the meeting s and so on. The most important issue is the awful conditions of political prisoners jailed in prisons of Islamic Republic of Iran. The political prisoners in Iran are accused of unacceptable illogical charges since there is no given definition of political crime according to Islamic regulations in Iran. The recently arrested Iranian university students are not excepted from this.
The numerous reports presented annually by the United Nations Human Rights Watch and Organization of International Amnesty indicate clearly the abolishment of human basic rights in Iran including the freedom of idea and expression , prohibition of torturing, having right to protest and right to hold the meeting s and so on. The most important issue is the awful conditions of political prisoners jailed in prisons of Islamic Republic of Iran. The political prisoners in Iran are accused of unacceptable illogical charges since there is no given definition of political crime according to Islamic regulations in Iran. The recently arrested Iranian university students are not excepted from this.
Your Excellency:
Considering what has been mentioned above, the families of all Iranian university students recently arrested, all democratic students, social activists, writers and true supporters of human rights have the right to become extremely worried about their dear children in the prisons of Islamic Republic Regime. As you are entitled the first person in the UN, you are obliged to question and impeach the governments all over the world for their exercise of suppression, suffocation and violation of nations’ rights and pursue earnestly the situation of people in Iran as well as you do in other countries.
Considering what has been mentioned above, the families of all Iranian university students recently arrested, all democratic students, social activists, writers and true supporters of human rights have the right to become extremely worried about their dear children in the prisons of Islamic Republic Regime. As you are entitled the first person in the UN, you are obliged to question and impeach the governments all over the world for their exercise of suppression, suffocation and violation of nations’ rights and pursue earnestly the situation of people in Iran as well as you do in other countries.
Your Excellency:
We the signers below request you to take immediate and necessary actions to free the arrested students to prevent the tragic deaths of more victims in oppressive governments.
Freedom and equality- seeking university students in Iran
In the following you may find a partial list of the students arrested. We can never claim to have a full list of the students as the authorities have never issued a complete list of the detainees.
We the signers below request you to take immediate and necessary actions to free the arrested students to prevent the tragic deaths of more victims in oppressive governments.
Freedom and equality- seeking university students in Iran
In the following you may find a partial list of the students arrested. We can never claim to have a full list of the students as the authorities have never issued a complete list of the detainees.
Mehdi Gerailoo- University of Tehran
Nader Ahsani - Ex-student of the University of Mazandaran
Anoosheh Azadbar - University of Tehran
Ilnaz Jamshidi - Azad University of Tehran
Behrooz Karimizadeh - Expelled student of the University of Tehran
Saeed Habibi - Ex-student of the Sharif University of Technology
Ali Salem - Amirkabir University of Technology
Milad Omrani - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University
Abed Tavancheh - Expelled student of Amirkabir University of Technology
Yaser Pirhayati - Shahed University
Roozbeh Safshekan - University of Tehran
Saeed Aghamali - Art University of Yazd
Roozbehan Amiri - University of Tehran
Nasim Soltanbeigi - Allame Tabataba'ee University
Mahsa Mohebbi-Released
Keyvan Amiri - Sharif University of Technology
Hadi Salari - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University
Amir Aghayi - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University
Farshid Farhadi Ahangaran - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University
Mohsen Ghamin - Amirkabir University of Technology
Soroosh Hashempoor - Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Hamed Mohammadi - University of Mazandaran - Released
Arash Pakzad - University of Mazandaran
Hassan Maarefi - University of Mazandaran - Released
Behrang Zandi - University of Mazandaran - Released
Peyman Piran
Majid Ashrafnejad - Shahid Rajayi Teacher Training University
Ali Kalayi - Azad University
Amir MehrzadShoan merikhi- University of Mazandaran
Sara Khademi- University of Mazandaran - Released
Nima Nahvi-Technical University of Babol-Released
Mohammad Saleh Ayuman- Graduate student of Political Science
Sohrab Karimi- Graduate student of Political Science
Farshad Dustipour- Mechanical Engineering
Javad Alizadeh- Graduate Student of Political Science
Parsa kormanjiyan- Azad University of Kermanshah - Released
Alireza Heidari- Azad University of Kermanshah - Released
Bahram Shojaii- Azad University of TehranYounes
MirHoseini- Bahonar University of Shiraz -Released
Milad Moini – University of Mazandaran - Released
Carta abierta a Ban Ki moon
Como se sabe, en el año 1367,unos mses despues de firma de la paz entre Irak y Iran
Fueron fucilados un numero grande de los presos politicos que estaban en los carceles de iran y feron enterrados en las tumbas conjuntas anonimas.Este proyecto que era la mayor
matanza contra el movimiento de izquierda en iran,siguio con los asesinatos en serie de los intelectuales criticos .Cabe decir que los reportajes de amnestia internacional afirma la realidad de estos asesinatos aun que la mayoria de los centros internacionales y organizaciones de los derechos humanos prefieron quedarse calados en relacion a este tema y la gran envergadura de este asesinato se quedo desconocida por el mundo.
Estimado señor,
En la apretura del dia 7 desiembre de 2007,dia nacional de los estudiantes en iran,el regimen detuvo mas de 40 estudiantes de movimiento de izquierda que como todos losaños estaban preparando planes para este dia y ademas,muchos d ellos estan perseguidos por la fuerzas de servicio de inteligencia de regimen islamico y el gobierno
Ha seguido detener a los estudiantes durante todo el mes pasado.
Como se sabe,el movimiento estudiantil de iran siempre ha sido pionero en resistir contra la guerra,injusticia y dictadura y siempre en la primera fila de luchar para derechos humanos,y democracia y el gobierno de iran que tiene una vergonzosa antecedente de ataque a las manifestaciones de los estudiantes y supresiones horribles en las universidades ahora dtiene a los estudiantes y hasta ahora no ha habido ninguna respuesta aceptable de parte de servicio de inteligecia,la parte justicial y la policia sobre el por que y el lugar de donde se mantienen estos estudiantes.
Estimado señor ,segun todos los reprtajes anuales de supervisor de los derechos humanos y amnestia internacional el regimen de iran viola
Los derechos humanos principales como la libertad de exprecion y ideologia,la prohibicion de tortura,el derecho de protestar y hacer manifestaciones y organizaciones ...y especialmente la situacion horrible en la que viven los presos politicos dentro de las carceles de Iran sin que exista una ley concreta en la que haya una explicasion determinada sobre el sentido de delito politico.Eso ha convertido en una base de muchas codenaciones falsas y sentencias injustas a los presos politios,no es necesario mencionar que los estudiante detenidos tambien sufren de este tema mucho.
Por otro lado ,el ambiente de los carceles en iran es horrible,en las carceles los presos sufren de la inquisicion
Amenaza y violencia .Los presos viven en lo peor situacion mental y corpora posible y no hay ni un madico para curarlos.
Ha seguido detener a los estudiantes durante todo el mes pasado.
Como se sabe,el movimiento estudiantil de iran siempre ha sido pionero en resistir contra la guerra,injusticia y dictadura y siempre en la primera fila de luchar para derechos humanos,y democracia y el gobierno de iran que tiene una vergonzosa antecedente de ataque a las manifestaciones de los estudiantes y supresiones horribles en las universidades ahora dtiene a los estudiantes y hasta ahora no ha habido ninguna respuesta aceptable de parte de servicio de inteligecia,la parte justicial y la policia sobre el por que y el lugar de donde se mantienen estos estudiantes.
Estimado señor ,segun todos los reprtajes anuales de supervisor de los derechos humanos y amnestia internacional el regimen de iran viola
Los derechos humanos principales como la libertad de exprecion y ideologia,la prohibicion de tortura,el derecho de protestar y hacer manifestaciones y organizaciones ...y especialmente la situacion horrible en la que viven los presos politicos dentro de las carceles de Iran sin que exista una ley concreta en la que haya una explicasion determinada sobre el sentido de delito politico.Eso ha convertido en una base de muchas codenaciones falsas y sentencias injustas a los presos politios,no es necesario mencionar que los estudiante detenidos tambien sufren de este tema mucho.
Por otro lado ,el ambiente de los carceles en iran es horrible,en las carceles los presos sufren de la inquisicion
Amenaza y violencia .Los presos viven en lo peor situacion mental y corpora posible y no hay ni un madico para curarlos.
Estimado señor,segun todo esto,las familias de estos estudiantes,los estudiants liberalistas ,las activistas,los escritores ytodos los que creen en los derechos humanos estan muy preocupados sobre la vida de esros seres queridos que estan en carcel.eso es su deber que como la primera persona de las nacioes unidas ,sigue la situacion de los estudiantes encarcelados y hace lo posible para ejercer la presion posible a los gobiernos que violan los derechos humanos.
nosotros todos queremos de usted que reacciona rapidamente y que se ponga en marcha para la libertad de estos estudiantes antes que sea demasiado tarde y antes que se repita la catastrofe y entes que mas sres humanos sean victimas de dictaduras.
Las firmas
nosotros todos queremos de usted que reacciona rapidamente y que se ponga en marcha para la libertad de estos estudiantes antes que sea demasiado tarde y antes que se repita la catastrofe y entes que mas sres humanos sean victimas de dictaduras.
Las firmas
From amnesty international:
From amnesty international:
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/147/2007
13 December 2007
UA 331/07
Arbitrary arrests/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ possible prisoners of conscience
IRAN
Between 20 and 30 students (male and female) associated with the student group Students for Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab), including:
Rosa 'Essa'ie, (f) member of Iran's Armenian minority, student at Tehran's Amir Kabir University
Mehdi Geraylou (m), student at Tehran University
Anousheh Azadfar (f), student at Tehran University
Ilnaz Jamshidi (f), student at Free University of Central Tehran
Rouzbeh Safshekan (m), student at Tehran University
Nasim Soltan-Beigi (m), student at 'Allameh Tabatabai University
Yaser Pir Hayati (m), student at Shahed University
Younes Mir Hosseini (m), student at Shiraz University
Milad Moini (m), student at Mazandaran University
Between 20 and 30 students, including those named above, are being detained without charge mostly in Tehran but also other cities, following scores of demonstrations and mass student sit-ins linked to Iran's national University Students' Day, 7 December. They may be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression and association, and it is feared that they could be tortured or otherwise ill-treated in detention.
Dozens of students have been detained over the last six weeks, following protests against the replacement of scores of professors and other actions apparently intended to further limit of freedom of expression on university campuses, including the banning of a number of student publications, and suspensions and expulsions of students from their places of higher education. Activists from the students' groups, the Office for Strengthening Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat) and Students For Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab) were said to be among those who took part in these demonstrations.
According to a report from news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) on 11 December, a spokesperson for Iran's judiciary stated that it continues to hold up to 24 students, including some arrested in previous months; the Persian-language website: http://takravi1.blogfa.com/ features 28 names. Most of those detained in Tehran are said to be held in sections 209 and 240 of Evin Prison and others in a state intelligence unit called Daftar-e Paygiri (Follow-up Office).
The recent student demonstrations - often involving hundreds of students - took place in Shahroud, east of Tehran; at Mazandaran University in Babolsar in the north of the country; and in Shiraz, in the south. One student in custody, Yaser Pir Hayati, is known to be a student at Tehran's Shahed University, an establishment solely for the children of Iranians killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). On 12 December, family members of those still detained gathered outside Evin prison and outside Iran's parliament building to protest against the incommunicado detention of their relatives.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Student groups have been at the forefront of demands for greater human rights in Iran in recent years. Since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005, there have been increasing restrictions on civil society in Iran. In April 2007, Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie publicly accused student activists and campaigners for the rights of women in Iran of being part of an "enemy conspiracy".
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in Persian, English, Arabic or your own language:
- calling on the authorities to release all students detained in recent weeks if they are prisoners of conscience, held solely on account of the peaceful exercise of their rights, and for any others to be tried promptly and fairly, in accordance with international fair trial standards, on recognisably criminal charges or else released;
- seeking details of any charges brought against those in detention;
- seeking assurances that none of those arrested is subject to torture or other ill treatment;
- calling on the authorities to ensure that these detainees have unfettered access to relatives, legal representation, and any medical attention they may require;
- reminding the authorities that confessions extracted under duress are prohibited by Article 38 of the constitution of Iran, which says that "All forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden," and that Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), of which Article 7 states that "No one shall be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.".
APPEALS TO: (Time difference = GMT + 3.5 hrs / BST + 2.5 hrs):
Leader of the Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed 'Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader, Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
Head of the Judiciary
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh / Office of the Head of the Judiciary
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (In the subject line write: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi)
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
Minister of Intelligence
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie
Ministry of Intelligence, Second Negarestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
PLEASE SEND COPIES OF YOUR APPEALS TO: His Excellency Mr Rasoul Movahedian, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran, 16 Prince's Gate, London SW7 1PT.
Fax: 020 7589 4440
Email: info@iran-embassy.org.uk
AND, IF POSSIBLE, TO THE FOLLOWING:
President
His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Presidency, Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir via website: www.president.ir/email
Speaker of Parliament
His Excellency Gholamali Haddad Adel
Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami, Baharestan Square, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: 0098 21 3355 6408
Email: hadadadel@majlis.ir (Please ask that your message be brought to the attention of the Article 90 Commission)
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/147/2007
13 December 2007
UA 331/07
Arbitrary arrests/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ possible prisoners of conscience
IRAN
Between 20 and 30 students (male and female) associated with the student group Students for Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab), including:
Rosa 'Essa'ie, (f) member of Iran's Armenian minority, student at Tehran's Amir Kabir University
Mehdi Geraylou (m), student at Tehran University
Anousheh Azadfar (f), student at Tehran University
Ilnaz Jamshidi (f), student at Free University of Central Tehran
Rouzbeh Safshekan (m), student at Tehran University
Nasim Soltan-Beigi (m), student at 'Allameh Tabatabai University
Yaser Pir Hayati (m), student at Shahed University
Younes Mir Hosseini (m), student at Shiraz University
Milad Moini (m), student at Mazandaran University
Between 20 and 30 students, including those named above, are being detained without charge mostly in Tehran but also other cities, following scores of demonstrations and mass student sit-ins linked to Iran's national University Students' Day, 7 December. They may be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression and association, and it is feared that they could be tortured or otherwise ill-treated in detention.
Dozens of students have been detained over the last six weeks, following protests against the replacement of scores of professors and other actions apparently intended to further limit of freedom of expression on university campuses, including the banning of a number of student publications, and suspensions and expulsions of students from their places of higher education. Activists from the students' groups, the Office for Strengthening Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat) and Students For Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab) were said to be among those who took part in these demonstrations.
According to a report from news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) on 11 December, a spokesperson for Iran's judiciary stated that it continues to hold up to 24 students, including some arrested in previous months; the Persian-language website: http://takravi1.blogfa.com/ features 28 names. Most of those detained in Tehran are said to be held in sections 209 and 240 of Evin Prison and others in a state intelligence unit called Daftar-e Paygiri (Follow-up Office).
The recent student demonstrations - often involving hundreds of students - took place in Shahroud, east of Tehran; at Mazandaran University in Babolsar in the north of the country; and in Shiraz, in the south. One student in custody, Yaser Pir Hayati, is known to be a student at Tehran's Shahed University, an establishment solely for the children of Iranians killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). On 12 December, family members of those still detained gathered outside Evin prison and outside Iran's parliament building to protest against the incommunicado detention of their relatives.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Student groups have been at the forefront of demands for greater human rights in Iran in recent years. Since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005, there have been increasing restrictions on civil society in Iran. In April 2007, Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie publicly accused student activists and campaigners for the rights of women in Iran of being part of an "enemy conspiracy".
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in Persian, English, Arabic or your own language:
- calling on the authorities to release all students detained in recent weeks if they are prisoners of conscience, held solely on account of the peaceful exercise of their rights, and for any others to be tried promptly and fairly, in accordance with international fair trial standards, on recognisably criminal charges or else released;
- seeking details of any charges brought against those in detention;
- seeking assurances that none of those arrested is subject to torture or other ill treatment;
- calling on the authorities to ensure that these detainees have unfettered access to relatives, legal representation, and any medical attention they may require;
- reminding the authorities that confessions extracted under duress are prohibited by Article 38 of the constitution of Iran, which says that "All forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden," and that Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), of which Article 7 states that "No one shall be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.".
APPEALS TO: (Time difference = GMT + 3.5 hrs / BST + 2.5 hrs):
Leader of the Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed 'Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader, Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
Head of the Judiciary
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh / Office of the Head of the Judiciary
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (In the subject line write: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi)
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
Minister of Intelligence
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie
Ministry of Intelligence, Second Negarestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
PLEASE SEND COPIES OF YOUR APPEALS TO: His Excellency Mr Rasoul Movahedian, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran, 16 Prince's Gate, London SW7 1PT.
Fax: 020 7589 4440
Email: info@iran-embassy.org.uk
AND, IF POSSIBLE, TO THE FOLLOWING:
President
His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Presidency, Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir via website: www.president.ir/email
Speaker of Parliament
His Excellency Gholamali Haddad Adel
Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami, Baharestan Square, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: 0098 21 3355 6408
Email: hadadadel@majlis.ir (Please ask that your message be brought to the attention of the Article 90 Commission)
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY
Arbitrary arrests/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ possible prisoners of conscience
Arbitrary arrests/ fear of torture or ill-treatment/ possible prisoners of conscienceIRAN
Between 20 and 30 students (male and female) associated with the student group Students for Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab), including:
Rosa 'Essa'ie, (f) member of Iran's Armenian minority, student at Tehran's Amir Kabir University
Mehdi Geraylou (m), student at Tehran University
Anousheh Azadfar (f), student at Tehran University
Ilnaz Jamshidi (f), student at Free University of Central Tehran
Rouzbeh Safshekan (m), student at Tehran University
Nasim Soltan-Beigi (m), student at 'Allameh Tabatabai University
Yaser Pir Hayati (m), student at Shahed University
Younes Mir Hosseini (m), student at Shiraz University
Milad Moini (m), student at Mazandaran University
Between 20 and 30 students, including those named above, are being detained without charge mostly in Tehran but also other cities, following scores of demonstrations and mass student sit-ins linked to Iran's national University Students' Day, 7 December. They may be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression and association, and it is feared that they could be tortured or otherwise ill-treated in detention.
Dozens of students have been detained over the last six weeks, following protests against the replacement of scores of professors and other actions apparently intended to further limit of freedom of expression on university campuses, including the banning of a number of student publications, and suspensions and expulsions of students from their places of higher education. Activists from the students' groups, the Office for Strengthening Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat) and Students For Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab) were said to be among those who took part in these demonstrations.
According to a report from news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) on 11 December, a spokesperson for Iran's judiciary stated that it continues to hold up to 24 students, including some arrested in previous months; the Persian-language website: http://takravi1.blogfa.com/ features 28 names. Most of those detained in Tehran are said to be held in sections 209 and 240 of Evin Prison and others in a state intelligence unit called Daftar-e Paygiri (Follow-up Office).
The recent student demonstrations - often involving hundreds of students - took place in Shahroud, east of Tehran; at Mazandaran University in Babolsar in the north of the country; and in Shiraz, in the south. One student in custody, Yaser Pir Hayati, is known to be a student at Tehran's Shahed University, an establishment solely for the children of Iranians killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). On 12 December, family members of those still detained gathered outside Evin prison and outside Iran's parliament building to protest against the incommunicado detention of their relatives.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Student groups have been at the forefront of demands for greater human rights in Iran in recent years. Since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005, there have been increasing restrictions on civil society in Iran. In April 2007, Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie publicly accused student activists and campaigners for the rights of women in Iran of being part of an "enemy conspiracy".
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in Persian, English, Arabic or your own language:
- calling on the authorities to release all students detained in recent weeks if they are prisoners of conscience, held solely on account of the peaceful exercise of their rights, and for any others to be tried promptly and fairly, in accordance with international fair trial standards, on recognisably criminal charges or else released;
- seeking details of any charges brought against those in detention;
- seeking assurances that none of those arrested is subject to torture or other ill treatment;
- calling on the authorities to ensure that these detainees have unfettered access to relatives, legal representation, and any medical attention they may require;
- reminding the authorities that confessions extracted under duress are prohibited by Article 38 of the constitution of Iran, which says that "All forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden," and that Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), of which Article 7 states that "No one shall be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.".
APPEALS TO: (Time difference = GMT + 3.5 hrs / BST + 2.5 hrs):
Leader of the Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed 'Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader, Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
Head of the Judiciary
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh / Office of the Head of the Judiciary
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (In the subject line write: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi)
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
Minister of Intelligence
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie
Ministry of Intelligence, Second Negarestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
[Salutation: Your Excellency]
PLEASE SEND COPIES OF YOUR APPEALS TO: His Excellency Mr Rasoul Movahedian, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran, 16 Prince's Gate, London SW7 1PT.
Fax: 020 7589 4440
Email: info@iran-embassy.org.uk
AND, IF POSSIBLE, TO THE FOLLOWING:
President
His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Presidency, Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir via website: www.president.ir/email
Speaker of Parliament
His Excellency Gholamali Haddad Adel
Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami, Baharestan Square, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: 0098 21 3355 6408
Email: hadadadel@majlis.ir (Please ask that your message be brought to the attention of the Article 90 Commission)
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY
Tens of arrested students in Iran are tortured
The following report is a selected part of a leaflet recently published by” Equality and freedom seeking university students. This translation is to inform you about the situation of tens of arrested students in the beginning days of December. These students are under most hard kind of tortures. It is urgent need to protest against these arrest and tortures and asking their immediate release.- Collective of Iranian students and youth living in Europe –30Dec2007
Now Iranian communist students are strongly worrying abut the situation of more than thirty students from their lines whom are in the prison of special security forces. There is not any chance to contact with the prisoners inside these jails. This part of the jail is even out of the control of the main officials of the Ewin prison. Far from any witness and through most hard physical and psychological and sexual oppression they extract forcefully the information from the prisoners, forcing them to accept the so called accusation, make them to confess false crimes, and so on.
The prisoners are forced to answer the written or oral questions of the inspectors while sitting on wood or metal chairs facing the wall. These kinds of inquiries are continued for hours and hours without any break. If the prisoners are not ready to cooperate or resist admitting the accusations then he or she would enter to a hard process. Inspectors would start insulting all of family members, especially insulting the female members. They mix the insults with threats and strikes against back of the neck and shoulders and little by little by coming the darkness the time of torture will arrive. Those who are according to the inspectors the “breakers of the will” and having especial kind of skills, come on the stage. They take the prisoner to downstairs or the room for central heating or backyard. “Breakers of the will” always crying, insulting and threatening. They order the prisoner to sit and stand and he or she must chose between obeying or to be beaten. During this process the “breakers of the will” keeps on talking about the illness of parents, how the mother had heart attack because of hearing about her child, how the judge had ordered an especial kind of Islamic punishment and so on. Just once the prisoner does slowly the movement of sitting and standing, they would start beating him or her. Little by little prisoner feels tires and weakness and would face insensibility in the feet, now the new process will start. They order the prisoner to stay on one leg. If not obeying then you would receive punches in the stomach or slaps at your face. This would increase your weakness so that you can not stand on your foot. The “Breakers of the will” according to their experience, find out this feeling very soon. They would start to beat up and down of the back part of the feet of the prisoner with their foot. Each strike cause the knees to be bent and breaks the balance. A treble pain would begin in the feet. Then he would start to beat behind both side of the neck with the keen part of his hand. The punch against spinal column causes darkness in your vision. During this process prisoner would fall down frequently, but “Breakers of the will” poor cold water by some plastic glass over your face, neck and down your waist to keep you more vigilant.
They return the prisoner with such a condition to the jail wanting him or her to fill up 100 page of the marked papers of the “revolution court”, telling you if not fill all the papers till next day with your confess then the torture would be repeated. Prisoner after that much of pressure must chose either not sleeping or to be tortured again.
If you refuse in any way the will of inspectors or the “Breakers of the will” then they would return with the especial Islamic punishment order of the judge. According to this order they will fest your hands and feet to a wooden bed and beat you with belt or lash on the bottom of your feet.
If the team of inquiry is not sure about the duration time of arrest then they would not meet any risk and would try nothing remain as a trace of torture on the body of prisoner. In this case they would use the method of white torture. In the 209 and 325 part of the prison there are the individual jails all in white or red color. They keep the prisoner for some weeks in such a kind of jail and would not ask him or her anything. In this kind of the jail there is a small window of 20cm long and 10cm width in the bottom of the door to put the food inside, so you can not even see the guard. Because of the color of the jail you lose your balance and would have hard nervous tensions. If they continue for a long time this method of painless torture the prisoner would rich to the full madness and losing his or her subjectivity and would become ready to cooperate with them.
Other kind of torture especially against Jung prisoners is sexual abuse. They luck the hands from behind the body, cover the eyes and put the prisoner against the wall and round him or her by three or four, starting with sexual threats and touching the different parts of the body of prisoner… prisoner become so nervous that either give up for cooperating or resorting to madly reactions…
Keeping awake is another treble kind of torture, they use against prisoners. They put the prisoner in an individual jail where strong projectors lightening the jail strongly from some three meter distance. They broadcast loudly alarm or moumurnfull songs. So they tear apart the nerves of prisoners and even when they are unconscious taking them under water to keep the prisoner awake. And again keeping them in the same jails brazenly lighted and loudly broadcasted with alarm or moumurnfull songs. And this process continues some 3 till 7 days.
Description above is only a part of what happening in 209 and 325 jails. The” freedom lover and equality seekers students” already are in the jails of Islamic Republic Regime of Iran, they are under threats of such an inhuman and barbaric deeds. This danger is much greater for the prisoners who could not be able to have any contact with their families. “
students committee - Belgium
Now Iranian communist students are strongly worrying abut the situation of more than thirty students from their lines whom are in the prison of special security forces. There is not any chance to contact with the prisoners inside these jails. This part of the jail is even out of the control of the main officials of the Ewin prison. Far from any witness and through most hard physical and psychological and sexual oppression they extract forcefully the information from the prisoners, forcing them to accept the so called accusation, make them to confess false crimes, and so on.
The prisoners are forced to answer the written or oral questions of the inspectors while sitting on wood or metal chairs facing the wall. These kinds of inquiries are continued for hours and hours without any break. If the prisoners are not ready to cooperate or resist admitting the accusations then he or she would enter to a hard process. Inspectors would start insulting all of family members, especially insulting the female members. They mix the insults with threats and strikes against back of the neck and shoulders and little by little by coming the darkness the time of torture will arrive. Those who are according to the inspectors the “breakers of the will” and having especial kind of skills, come on the stage. They take the prisoner to downstairs or the room for central heating or backyard. “Breakers of the will” always crying, insulting and threatening. They order the prisoner to sit and stand and he or she must chose between obeying or to be beaten. During this process the “breakers of the will” keeps on talking about the illness of parents, how the mother had heart attack because of hearing about her child, how the judge had ordered an especial kind of Islamic punishment and so on. Just once the prisoner does slowly the movement of sitting and standing, they would start beating him or her. Little by little prisoner feels tires and weakness and would face insensibility in the feet, now the new process will start. They order the prisoner to stay on one leg. If not obeying then you would receive punches in the stomach or slaps at your face. This would increase your weakness so that you can not stand on your foot. The “Breakers of the will” according to their experience, find out this feeling very soon. They would start to beat up and down of the back part of the feet of the prisoner with their foot. Each strike cause the knees to be bent and breaks the balance. A treble pain would begin in the feet. Then he would start to beat behind both side of the neck with the keen part of his hand. The punch against spinal column causes darkness in your vision. During this process prisoner would fall down frequently, but “Breakers of the will” poor cold water by some plastic glass over your face, neck and down your waist to keep you more vigilant.
They return the prisoner with such a condition to the jail wanting him or her to fill up 100 page of the marked papers of the “revolution court”, telling you if not fill all the papers till next day with your confess then the torture would be repeated. Prisoner after that much of pressure must chose either not sleeping or to be tortured again.
If you refuse in any way the will of inspectors or the “Breakers of the will” then they would return with the especial Islamic punishment order of the judge. According to this order they will fest your hands and feet to a wooden bed and beat you with belt or lash on the bottom of your feet.
If the team of inquiry is not sure about the duration time of arrest then they would not meet any risk and would try nothing remain as a trace of torture on the body of prisoner. In this case they would use the method of white torture. In the 209 and 325 part of the prison there are the individual jails all in white or red color. They keep the prisoner for some weeks in such a kind of jail and would not ask him or her anything. In this kind of the jail there is a small window of 20cm long and 10cm width in the bottom of the door to put the food inside, so you can not even see the guard. Because of the color of the jail you lose your balance and would have hard nervous tensions. If they continue for a long time this method of painless torture the prisoner would rich to the full madness and losing his or her subjectivity and would become ready to cooperate with them.
Other kind of torture especially against Jung prisoners is sexual abuse. They luck the hands from behind the body, cover the eyes and put the prisoner against the wall and round him or her by three or four, starting with sexual threats and touching the different parts of the body of prisoner… prisoner become so nervous that either give up for cooperating or resorting to madly reactions…
Keeping awake is another treble kind of torture, they use against prisoners. They put the prisoner in an individual jail where strong projectors lightening the jail strongly from some three meter distance. They broadcast loudly alarm or moumurnfull songs. So they tear apart the nerves of prisoners and even when they are unconscious taking them under water to keep the prisoner awake. And again keeping them in the same jails brazenly lighted and loudly broadcasted with alarm or moumurnfull songs. And this process continues some 3 till 7 days.
Description above is only a part of what happening in 209 and 325 jails. The” freedom lover and equality seekers students” already are in the jails of Islamic Republic Regime of Iran, they are under threats of such an inhuman and barbaric deeds. This danger is much greater for the prisoners who could not be able to have any contact with their families. “
students committee - Belgium
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Declaration of the Families of the Arrested Comrades
Declaration of the Families of the Arrested Comrades
Rally in front of the public prosecution of the revolutionary court(The declaration of the families of the arrested students before, during and after the commemoration of the University Students’ Day)It has been one month. A month of difficult and cold nights in front of the notorious Evin prison, a month of the insults of the guards, the threats of the interrogator, the groundless accusations and promises. We are on this side and our sons and daughters are on the other side of the Evin walls, in dark and cold solitary cells. The same repetitive story of being blindfolded, night interrogation, sleeplessness, beating and foul language etc, etc.Our sons and daughters are under the highest pressures because of having called for equality and freedom at university, a place which belongs to them and on a day which belongs to them, i.e., Iranian University Students’ Day and we, the families, are kept in complete ignorance of their situation, without any permission for them to visit us or their lawyers; and all this is done in utter boycott of the country’s media and press.After this long time, we find a rally in front of the public prosecution of the revolutionary court in Tehran at 11 a.m. on Saturday Dey 15(Jan 5) to let our voice be heard by our children through these cold and grey walls so that they can know that they are not alone, so that they can know that their families, their friends and all free people stand beside them and will not succumb until their complete freedom.
Seeking Committee for the Freedom of the University Students
Rally in front of the public prosecution of the revolutionary court(The declaration of the families of the arrested students before, during and after the commemoration of the University Students’ Day)It has been one month. A month of difficult and cold nights in front of the notorious Evin prison, a month of the insults of the guards, the threats of the interrogator, the groundless accusations and promises. We are on this side and our sons and daughters are on the other side of the Evin walls, in dark and cold solitary cells. The same repetitive story of being blindfolded, night interrogation, sleeplessness, beating and foul language etc, etc.Our sons and daughters are under the highest pressures because of having called for equality and freedom at university, a place which belongs to them and on a day which belongs to them, i.e., Iranian University Students’ Day and we, the families, are kept in complete ignorance of their situation, without any permission for them to visit us or their lawyers; and all this is done in utter boycott of the country’s media and press.After this long time, we find a rally in front of the public prosecution of the revolutionary court in Tehran at 11 a.m. on Saturday Dey 15(Jan 5) to let our voice be heard by our children through these cold and grey walls so that they can know that they are not alone, so that they can know that their families, their friends and all free people stand beside them and will not succumb until their complete freedom.
Seeking Committee for the Freedom of the University Students
2008/1/1
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