To: Mrs. Louise Arbour,
United Nation’s High Conmmissioner for Human Rights
Re: Repression of Peaceful
Gatherings of Residents of Kurdish Regions of Iran
Date: August 7, 2005
Her Excellency;
IHRAG (Iranian Human Rights
Activist Groups in EU and North America), is a non-profit nework of
independent Iranian human rights organizations in Europe and North
America, formed in Fall of 2001, and it’s activities are merely based
on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as other United
Nation Human Rights Conventions.
According to published reports
desiminated from Iran, from official and unofficial sources, following
the torture, and subsequent murder of 25 year old Kamal Esfaram (kwnon
as Shoane Ghaderi ), in the city of Mahabad, on July 11th,
2005, residents of the city gathered in front of the Governor’s office
to demand the arrest and trial of culprits in Mr. Esfaram’s torture
and murder. Unfortunately, their peaceful gathering was attacked by the
police and the security forces and many people were beaten and several
of them were arrested and put to jail.
In support of the demands of
their compatriots in Mahabad, residents of some other cities in this
region, such as Bookan, Rabt, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr, Sardasht, Baneh,
Divandareh, Sanandaj, and Saghez, staged similar peaceful gatherings in
the pat three weeks. Instead of attending to their just demands,
authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with their
widespread, planned, and systematic violations of the human rights of
Iranian people, resorted to more violence and even used helicopter
gunships to suppress these gatherings. As a result many people have been
injured, arrested and killed in the past 25 days.
Based on reliable information
obtained todate, following is the names of 25 people killed:
1-Abas Ramezanzadeh 2-Naser
Nilofari 3-Behzad Rahimi 4-Aibid kamali 5-Kave Vakili 6-Kave Hejazi
7-Mohamed Shariati 8-Farzad Mohamedi 9-Afshin Moravati 10-Shadman
Mohamedi 11-Rahman 12-Omar Amini 13-Heydar Abdullahzadeh 14-Jamile
Khezry 15-Bayazid Ali Hassan 16-Loghman Nasrollahi 17-Hakim Soor
18-Hossein Balani 19-Kamal Esfram 20-Hassan Ahmedi.
More than one thousand people
have been jailed, and following is a partial list we could obtain:
1-Roya Toloui 2-Madeh Ahmedi
3-Jalal Aghvami 4-Azad Zamani 5-Keyvan Mollamirzai 6- Farhad Saberi
7-Omid Asadi 8-Shahoo Abdullahi 9-Hassan Tari Moradi 10-Veria Zamani
11-Alireza Nostati 12-Fayegh Moradi 13-Vaham Mohamed Rezai 14-Arsalan
Sadeghinia 15- Amirali Veysi 16-Raouf Heydarian 17-Milad Mahbobi
18-Sirvan keshavarz 19-Kamal Mohamdi 20-Sasan Aghjari 21-Farzad Salavati
22-Shahoo Amjadi 23-Habibollah Saaitkhani 24-Javad Rahimi 25-Salah Feysi
26-Hiresh Rahimi 27-Tofigh Seyfi 28-Farhad Alikhani 29-Teymor Ghobadi
30-Kaled Amjadi 31-Hyva Hosseini 32-Nima Falahi 33-Saman Bahmanzade
34-Jamal Ali Mohamed 35-Farid Sobhani 36-Iraj Kanan 37-Arman Amini
38-Daryosh Armand 39-Saleh Zamani 40-Afshin Habibi 41-Hamid Nafsi
42-Afshin Garibi 43-Vahab Alikhani 44-Hamid Tasaini 45-Saman Bahmanzade
46-Shahoo Salimi 47-Sirvan Feysinejad 48-Arfan Soleymani 49-Ramin Amini
50-Khaled Amini 51-Omid Moeini
52-Omar Moradian 53-Omid Asadi
54-Loghman Golami 55-Mahmud Salehi 56-Jahanbaksh Feysinejad 57-Puja
Based on published reports,
hundreds more have been injured, and two regional journals, “Asou” and “Ashti”,
have been closed.
Her Excellency,
We, the Iranian Human Rights
Activists in EU and North America, ask you and the Secretary General
Kofi Annan, to use your good offices to:
1-
free all those who have been
jailed. ( we should inform you that they have been denied of any access
to defence council, and the authorities refuse to inform their families
where they are being held);
2-
stop prosecuting the injured ones
so they can receive prompt and proper medical treatment;
3-
deliver the bodies of those who
have been killed to their families and allow them to hald proper and
dignified funerals for their loved ones; and
4-
appoint a UN committee to
conduct an investigation in the region as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Iranian Human Rights Activist
Groups in EU and North America (IHRAG)
E-mail: IHRNENA@gmail.com
Phone: 1 - 514 – 365 9212
(Canada) or 46 -704-124-500 (Sweden)
Address: BOX 5047, 165 10
Hässelby, Sweden
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