Take
the necessary urgent action on prohibiting the extradition of a young
pakistani-baloch to Iran
Following the reports from Balochistan Human Rights Watch (BHRW), a
young pakistani nationality holder baloch is beeing extradited by
Pakistani government to Islamic republic of Iran.
This
young baloch, Gholam Haidar Baloch – son of
Khodabaksh born in 1979, who originates from a area near by
Quetta, has already been sentenced to imprisonment in Pakistan, where he
has been in custody for approximately one year, and where he was claimed
to carry unauthorized arms.
At the
present he is in custody in Quetta’s central jail in
order to be extradited to
Iran. Despite the fact that the court
sentenced to imprisonment him in January 2008, and despite the fact that
Gholam Haidar has already spent 5 monthes of
the imprisonment, the new
Pakistani minister of the interior has changed the sentence and has
decided to extradit him.
His parents, family and 3 children are strongly worried about the
fate he is going to meet, if the Pakistani authorities extradit him to Iran.
Islamic
regime in Iran claims that
several of its opponents live in Pakistan, and Gholam Haidar is one
of the opponents. But the fact is that there are plenty of persons
(friends, teachers, neighbours) who have known him since he was a child,
and therefore Iran’s claims that he is an Iranian national is completely
baseless, and therefore the Pakistani government has no legal and moral
authority to transfer this young baloch to Iran, as he is transferred to
Iran he will be tortured and forced into false confessions. It has to
emphasized that his parents and his own family members are all holder of
pakistani national, and hold all pakistani aquired documents incl.
ID-card, driving liscence,
school documents, passport etc.
As
informed, the Islamic republic of Iran
has already killed and still killing hundreds / thousands of
young Baloch with false allegations such as participation in drug
handling processes and / or participation in armed groups. As informed
also, the acused persons have been killed with no any right for justice
defence against the false allegations. When it is not possible for the
regime to take such allegations in use, it does not hesitate to claim
the Baloch are politically active agains the regime.
Therefore we in Balochistan Human Right Watch fear for the life of
Gholam Haidar Baloch and would
like to call international attention, the Amnesty International in
particular, to our concern.
Nevertheless we would like the international community to take the
necessary immediate action on this particular important matter.
Thanking you in advance
Yours sincerely
Balochistan Human Right Watch /
Radio Balochi FM - Sweden
Tuesday, 15 May
2008
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