نامه به مجامع حقوق بشری

آقای کیوان رفیعی فعال حقوق بشری که در جریان سالگرد قیام جنبش دانشجویی بازداشت شد به دلیل افشاگری در زمینه نقض حقوق بشر از سوی دولت ایران دستگیر و با گذشت بیش از 40 روز همچنان در سلول های انفرادی بند 209 زندان اوین بسر می برد . کیوان رفیعی به دلیل فعالیت های مستمر حقوق بشری و افشای نقض حقوق بشر در زندان ها ، انعکاس سرکوب فعالین حقوق زنان ، پیگیری وضعیت زندانیان سیاسی در زندان های ایران ، حمایت از حقوق کارگران و بخصوص سندیکای شرکت واحد تهران چندین بار از سوی وزارت اطلاعات مورد تهدید و فشار قرار گرفته بود . در پیگیری های خانواده ایشان برای آگاهی از سرنوشت ایشان قاضی پرونده علاوه بر تهدید خانواده مبنی بر گرفتن وکیل ، وضعیت او در ابهام است . ما امضا کنندگان نامه زیر ضمن اعلام نگرانی نسبت به وضعیت آقای رفیعی خواهان آزادی ایشان هستیم .

رو نوشت به : عفو بین الملل-دیده بان حقوق بشر-کمیساریای عالی حقوق بشر

برای امضا اینجا کلیک کنید .

برای متن انگلیسی اینجا کلیک کنید .

keyvan rafiee must be free

URGENT ACTION NEEDED

FEARS FOR IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER

Grave fears are held for the welfare of Iranian human rights campaigner, Keyvan Rafiee, since he was arrested by Iranian security forces in IRAN and he is 40 days in 209 sell Evin jail.

Rafiee was well-known both inside and outside Iran for defending human rights, in particular the rights of workers and women.

His web site provided much information to the outside world about human rights abuses inside Iran. Most recently he had reported on the student demonstrations that have taken place over the last few years. Just the latest of a number of activists and human rights’

Campaigners that have been detained by the Iranian authorities. A number of student activists have also disappeared or are being held in prison in Iran as the government cracks down on the pro-democracy movement.

We are urging, the United Nations, and other human rights organizations to contact the Iranian government to demand the release of Rafiee.

copy to :

Ms. Louise Arbour United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Human Rights Watch

Amnesty international

Sincerely klick here

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for freedom ahmad batebi

To: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Avenue de la Paix 8-14

Geneva 10, Switzerland 1211

In the summer of 1999, 21 year old film student Ahmad Batebi arrived at a peaceful student protest held in front of his school at University of Tehran. A vigilante mob supported by the special security police had already attacked the protestors injuring several students, arresting numerous others and killing at least one.

Batebi who was trained as an emergency paramedic by the Red Crescent Society of Iran was assisting the injured when he came across a severely injured friend and held his friend's bloody t-shirt above his head to show the cruelty of the attackers. Several journalists and photographers took pictures of his gesture and one ( http://bateby.cjb.net/ ) eventually found its way to the cover of London's prestigious The Economist. Preparing for a movie where he was to play the role of Jesus Christ, Batebi had long hair and a beard at the time, making him an attractive subject for such a dramatic pose.

Batebi was arrested on that day and was later brought to trial in front of the special "revolutionary court" in Tehran. His "trial" lasted only a few minutes and he was denied having a lawyer present to defend him. The Economist cover was used as part of the evidence against him and to prove his "counter-revolutionary" activities. He received a death sentence but internal and international pressure, finally caused the authorities to reduce his sentence to 15 years.

Ahmad Batebi has been subjected to solitary confinement, physical and mental torture during his captivity so far and will be a 36 year old man when and if released at the end of his sentence. All for a bloody t-shirt and a picture.

We, the undersigned, appeal for your involvement on Batebi's behalf based on principals of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm ), to which Iran is a signatory.

His arrest, trial and detention are clear violations of Articles 9, 10, 11, 18, 19 and 20 of this significant document adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December of 1948 and as such mandates your immediate intervention.

Furthermore, we call upon the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to meet its international obligations and free all political prisoners and others held based on their religious or ideological opinion and belief.

Sincerely

Sincerely klick here

فعالان حقوق بشر در ايران

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