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نيروهاي انتظامي و اطلاعاتي 19 جوان را در
ايرانشهر به بهانه "اجراي طرح ارتق
Urgent action 1
Amnesty
International: Two urgent actions on Baluchi civil
society activists /Ebrahim
Mehrnehad and three other balouchis
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/047/2008
12 March 2008
UA 68/08 Fear of torture
IRAN
Ebrahim
Mehrnahad (m), aged 16
Fazlorahman Jahras (m), aged
about 16
Abdollah
Salarzahi, (m), leading
member,
Voice of Justice Young
People’s Society (VJYPS)
Asadollah Shahbaksh, (m) student,
VJYPS member
According to local Baluchi sources,
Ebrahim Mehrnehad,
Fazlorahman Jahras, Abdollah Salarzahi and
Asadollah Shahbaksh
have been arrested, and their whereabouts are unknown. They are at
grave risk of torture.
Ebrahim Mehrnehad is the younger brother of
Baluchi journalist and civil society activist Ya'qoub Mehrnehad, who
is the head of a legally-registered NGO, The Voice of Justice Young
People’s Society (VJYPS). VJYPS organises events such
as concerts and educational courses for young Baluchi people, and
raises funds to help the poor. Ebrahim
Mehrnehad was said to have been arrested on 21 February while
walking home from school. Fazlorahman Jahras, who was with him, was
also reportedly arrested.
VJYPS member Asadollah Shahbaksh was reportedly
arrested in late February, and VJYPS spokesperson and Central
Council member Abdollah Salarzahi was reportedlyarrested in
early March.
Ya'qoub Mehrnehad
has been sentenced to death after an unfair trial, for allegedly
having “contacts with the Jondallah group”, a Baluchi armed
opposition group. See UA 38/08
(MDE
13/038/2008 and MDE 13/047/2008) for
further details.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Baluchi armed group, the
People's Resistance of Movement of Iran (PRMI),
formerly known as Jondallah has carried
out a number of attacks on Iranian officials and has sometimes taken
hostages and killed them. It reportedly seeks to defend the rights
of the Baluchi people, though government officials have claimed that
it is involved in drug smuggling and terrorist activities and has
ties to foreign governments.
Attacks by thePRMI have been followed by
widespread arrests of members of the Baluchi minority, many of whom
Baluchi sources claim are not connected to the attacks. In 2007, at
least 312 people, and perhaps many more, were executed in Iran.
There was a marked rise in the number of Baluchis executed.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive
as quickly as possible, in Persian, French, English or your own
language:
- asking why Ebrahim Mehrnehad and the three
others (naming them) have been detained, where they are detained and
under what law, and seeking assurances that they will not be
tortured or ill-treated while in detention;
- urging the authorities to release all four if
they have been detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their
rights to freedom of expression and association;
- reminding the authorities that the use of
confessions extracted under duress is prohibited by Article 38 of
the Constitution of Iran;
- urging the authorities to ensure that all four
have access to their families
and a lawyer of their choice and to any medical treatment they may
require.
APPEALS TO:
Minister of Intelligence
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie
Ministry of Intelligence, Second Negarestan
Street, Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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
Governor of Sistan - Baluchistan province
Mr Dahmarde, Governor
Fax: +98 541 3231990
E-mail: info@sb-ostan.ir
Salutation: Dear Sir
COPIES TO:
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
Speaker of Parliament
His Excellency Gholamali Haddad Adel
Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami, Baharestan Square,
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: +98 21 3355 6408
Email: hadadadel@majlis.ir (Ask
for your message to be passed to the Article 90
Commission)
and to diplomatic representatives of Iran
accredited to your country.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with
the International Secretariat, or your section office, if sending
appeals after 22
Amnesty International:
urgent action on Baluchi civil society activist
/Yaghub Mehrnehad
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/048/2008
12 March 2008
Further Information on
UA 38/08
(MDE
13/038/2008, 12 February 2008)
– Death sentence/Unfair trial/ Torture
IRAN Ya'qoub Mehrnehad
(m), aged 28, member of
Iran’s Baluchi minority
A Judiciary spokesman confirmed at a press
conference on 19 February that Ya’qoub Mehrnehad had been sentenced
to death.
Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi told the
press conference that Ya'qoub Mehrnehad had been sentenced to death
for "contacts with the Jondallah group", but also said that
the sentence was open to appeal before the Supreme Court. Ya’qoub
Mehrnehad was sentenced to death after an unfair trial and may have
been tortured. He may have been arrested solely for his peaceful
exercise of his rights to freedom of expression and association
during his journalism and his activities as head of a legally
registered NGO, The Voice of Justice Young People’s Society (VJYPS),
which
organises events such as concerts and educational courses for young
Baluchi people and raises funds to help the poor.
On the day of the press conference, Ya’qoub
Mehrnehad was permitted a visit by his family, the first for about
two months. His family were summoned at short notice. During that
meeting, they were told to speak only in Persian, not Baluchi.
According to a Baluchi source, Ya’qoub Mehrnehad told his family,
"I am not guilty and
this has happened unjustly and if I am executed, people will know
that I have been executed without [having committed] a crime."
Ya'qoub's 16-year-old brother Ebrahim, Ebrahim’s
16-year-old friend, and two other Baluchi men who are members of
VJYPS have been arrested, according to local Baluchi sources, and
are in grave danger of torture. Their whereabouts are unknown. See
UA 68/08, MDE 13/048/2008, 12 March 2008.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Baluchi armed group, the
People's Resistance of Movement of Iran (PRMI),
formerly known as Jondallah has carried
out a number of attacks on Iranian officials and has sometimes taken
hostages and killed them. It reportedly seeks to defend the rights
of the Baluchi people, though government officials have claimed that
it is involved in drug smuggling and terrorist activities and has
ties to foreign governments.
Attacks by thePRMI have been followed by
widespread arrests of members of the Baluchi minority, many of whom
Baluchi sources claim are not connected to the attacks. In 2007, at
least 312 people, and perhaps many more, were executed in Iran.
There was a marked rise in the number of Baluchis executed.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive
as quickly as possible, in English, French, Arabic, Persian or your
own language:
- calling on the authorities not to execute
Ya’qoub Mehrnehad, and to commute his death sentence immediately;
- asking for details of the charges against
Ya’qoub Mehrnehad, by which court he was tried, whether he had a
lawyer of his own choice, whether he has been able to exercise his
right to appeal against his conviction and sentence;
-
expressing concern at
reports that he has been tortured, and
reminding the authorities that the use of confessions
extracted under duress is prohibited by Article 38 of the
Constitution of Iran;
- urging that he be released
if he has been detained solely for the
peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression and
association.
APPEALS TO:
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
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
Governor of Sistan - Baluchistan province
Mr Dahmarde, Governor
Fax: +98 541 3231990
E-mail: info@sb-ostan.ir
Salutation: Dear Sir
COPIES TO:
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: +98 21 3355 6408
Email: hadadadel@majlis.ir (Ask
for your message to be passed to the Article 90
Commission)
and to diplomatic representatives of Iran
accredited to your country.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with
the International Secretariat, or your section office, if sending
appeals after 22 April 2008.
