To: Mrs.
Louise Arbour, United Nation’s High Conmmissioner for Human Rights
Re:
Repression of Peaceful Gatherings of Residents of Kurdish Regions of
Date:
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-Naser
Nilofari 2-Behzad Rahimi 3-Aibid kamali 4-Kave Vakili 5-Mohamed Shariati 6-Farzad
Mohamedi 7-Shadman Mohamedi 8-Rahman 9-Omar Amini 10-Heydar Abdullahzadeh 11-Jamile
Khezry 12-Bayazid Maroofi 13-Loghman Nasrollahi 14-Hakim Soor 15-Hossein Balani
16-Kamal Esfram 17-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
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
E-mail: IHRNENA@gmail.com
Phone: 1 -
514 – 365 9212 (
Address:
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