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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:22 pm    Post subject: Ms. Homa Ehsan Reply with quote

Homa Ehsan wrote:

Watch Homa Ehsan on Bahai persecution Part 1 of 2. هما احسان ، بهاییت
Homa Ehsan, on Persecution of Bahais i Iran ...

Watch Homa Ehsan on Bahai persecution Part 2 of 2. هما احسان ، بهاییت
Homa Ehsan, on Persecution of Bahais i Iran ...



cyrus wrote:
Ms. Homa Ehsan’s speech Washington D.C.

May 1, 2005
Translation by: Ramin Etebar, M.D.



My dear Intellectuals

Today, I speak of a people that humanity’s civilization and welfare is indebted to them.

The great grandchildren of Cyrus the great whose voice from the dawn of knowledge and wisdom has echoed in the passage of time for more than 2500 years .

Cyrus whom at the conquest of Babylon,Sumer and Akkad ordered that no one’s home shall be ruined and everyone is free to worship their own god. During his coronation; He said: As long as I live, I will never impose my rule on any people. The people are free to choose or reject my rule. The document has been hailed as the first charter of human rights, and in 1971 the United Nations published translation of it in all the official U.N. languages. The replica of Cyrus’s cylinder and his decree is displayed in the UN.

I speak of a nation that good thoughts, good deeds and good words by the order of their Ahuramazda religion seek to create beauty, joy and quest for discovering the secrets of universe has been their way of life. A people who ponder of love which encompasses affection, light and knowledge.

Here and today; I speak of a people that humanity’s civilization and welfare is fearful of them. A nation as such resembling an ancient tree that has been uprooted in a historical storm separated from its own culture and dispersed branch by branch.

The Iranians within their own frontiers, in sadness, fear and bad fortune are prisoners of religious leaders whom killing and being killed is their motto, creating hatred, war and mourning ,death and destruction is their value metric.


It is disheartening for me to discuss Iranian human rights whom were the pioneers of first charter of human rights in the world. However it is encouraging that honorable human beings such as yourselves are concerned with the destiny of these fine people.

We need help from all the good human beings to free Iranians and the world from fear, hatred and anger caused by the presence of a blood thirsty regime in Iran. A regime that has created an instrument from religion to frighten all, a regime that has legalized killing,

suppression, and human rights violation referencing these rules to god in which case any objections to these laws are labeled as immorality on earth and combatant against god punishment for which is death. A regime that unfortunately and astonishingly despite all its anti-humanity legislations is accepted officially in the international community membership. A regime that concedes to be non-representative of the people, but assigned

to govern by god, alas its delegates are sitting in the United Nations replacing the true representatives of the Iranians.

In the 2nd article of IRI constitution it is stated that the foundation of governing, and legislation only comes from God. Foundation and basis of legislation comes from Quran

and living tradition of profit Mohammad and his family. “Imam” supreme leader or (Velayate Faghih) is the interpreter of the legislations.

Article 4 of IRI constitution states that all civil, penal financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria. This principle applies absolutely and generally to all articles of the Constitution as well as to all other laws and regulations, and the fuqaha' of the Guardian Council are judges in this matter. The guardian council members are selected by the Imam.

Article 5th of IRI constitution states that during the Occultation of the Wali al-Asr the wilayah and leadership of the nation devolve upon the just and pious faqih until reappearance of the 12th Imam whom the Shia world has been expecting for 14 centuries.

Article 12th of IRI constitution states that the official religion of Iran is Islam and the Twelver Ja'fari school and this principle will remain eternally immutable. In practice the punishment for changing religion is death.

In the article 13th of IRI constitution it is stated that Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian Iranians are the only recognized religious minorities. In practice the rest such as Bahais

are considered infidels whom are denied their civil rights and killing them has been legal.

This regime has been granted membership in the United Nations which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been adopted in its charter, where in UDHR article 21, it emphasizes that “the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures”.
In the article 18th of the UDHR everyone has been given the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 207 of IRI’s penal code states that if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim he will not be subject to death penalty and article 222 states that anyone who kills an insane individual is not subject to prosecutions. Under article 220 of IRI’s Penal Code, a man who kills his own child or his son's child is not subject to discretionary punishment (qesas).

Article 201 of IRI criminal law states that a thief shall be subject to amputation of four fingers of right hand for first offence, the left foot for the second offence, prison for third and execution for the fourth even if the offence occurs in jail. please note ; what can one steal in prison in comparison to the astronomical lootings by the regime leaders.

Eye gouging, stoning, executions in public and amputations of limbs are all legal in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 1988, more than 10,000 of the political dissidents were executed in prison by the order of Khomeini. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights sufficed by issuing a statement criticizing the IRI regime for this genocide, however this mass murder was legal under Article 186 of IRI penal code which states that any person who is involved with or supports an armed opposition against the Islamic government and the divine rule is subject to capital punishment even though the culprit may not be a direct participant in the armed insurgency.

In the regime’s prison’s, young virgin girls are raped in order to prevent them from going to heaven. The dissidents against the divine regime are not permitted entry to the paradise.

It is regrettable that UDHR refers the humans’ quest for justice to the decision of national courts. A political system is constituted of its legislation, when the inhuman laws are attributed to divine rule, where can one seek justice? In which court? With the continued existence of IRI, observation of human rights in Iran is unimaginable. IRI is anti-humanity in its entirety, It must be removed.

The consequences of this regime’s practices is not the only cause of advancing poverty, corruption, prostitution, addiction and crimes in Iran as they consider themselves as the representatives of god that are obligated to promote their rule throughout the world.

Article 11 of the IRI constitution referencing Quran’s Al-Anbiya chapter verses 92 states that the Iranian armed forces’ duties are to engage in Jihad (holy war) for god and to promote the divine rule throughout the world. Based on that verse the Moslems must be armed with the most modern weapons to frighten the enemy and kill the infidels. Therefore regime’s quest to acquire nuclear weapons meaning the most modern arsenal is a divine matter under the god’s direction and is the rule of law, thus chanting slogans of death to America and Israel. They believe that the citizen’s of these countries should be killed.

One of the required principals in Shia Islam is Taghieh, which means that they lie even under oath, when they think their action is helping Islam. Therefore when the regime leaders are under pressure to sign an agreement, they submit only to perform Taghieh and do the exact opposite at a later time. How can one negotiate and reach an agreement with these people?

Recently we broadcasted footage from Dr. ‘Hassan Abbasi, one of regime’s famous theorizing strategists in which he took pride in training suicide bombers and terrorists. Several days ago, a news report indicated that 400 people have graduated from his training camp with a mission to conduct acts of terrorism in the land of “infidels” such as America.

Oh humans

To free the humanity, Iranians or non-Iranians from worry and anxiety caused by the IRI threat, there is only one solution. That is regime changed in Iran.

We do not advocate war and destruction of our innocent Iranian compatriots. Other than appeasement or bombing Iran, there is another solution that we suggest. Help Iranians to remove this mafia-like regime with a systematic approach. The time has come to end the international religious terrorism feeding off the Mullahs in Tehran.

Contact Information:
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Ms. Homa Ehsan
http://www.homaehsan.org
(818) 462-3158
(818) 342-2096
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:10 pm    Post subject: Khawaran *Silent Hill* Massacre Site Reply with quote

New York Times wrote:

Seven Iranians Charged With Spying for Israel
By Robert Mackey
February 23, 2009, 2:58 pm



Source URL: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/7-iranians-charged-with-spying-for-israel/?hp

Last week, the Iranian state-run broadcaster Press TV reported that seven Iranian followers of the minority Bahai faith, who were arrested last year, will be tried in Tehran as soon as this week on charges of “espionage for Israel, desecrating religious sanctities and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” If convicted, the five men and two women could be sentenced to death.

Press TV, a satellite channel broadcast in English, noted that an American government commission has “condemned the move, saying the espionage charges were ‘baseless.’ ” But it also reported that the Iranian chief prosecutor, Ayatollah Qorban-Ali Dori-Najafabadi, “accused the group of gathering intelligence” and said there was “irrefutable evidence that adherents of the Bahai sect are in close contact with the enemies of the Iranian nation and have strong links to the Zionist regime.”

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Visit Source URL: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/7-iranians-charged-with-spying-for-israel/?hp







2 New Videos On YouTube - Condemning Islamists Human Rights Violations In Iran wrote:


1) New Video: Inspired by the plight of the Baha'is in Iran

Images © Baháí International Community (media.bahai.org) & NASA
Video sections - C-Span
Bahai Regional Conference videos (2008-09)
Audio Samples as recorded by C-Span
Original song composed by Tahereh Etehad - copyrighted. Do not resample, record or distribute without permissions. Not for commercial use or exhibition

AND we forgot to put www.bahaipictures.com to the credit list in the video, sorry!

The quality isn't fantastic, had to use what we had available and also very limited time (a few hours and neither of us "movie making" people.

For information on what's going on/what inspired this video (tinyurls are for your convenience - some may be pdfs):
http://www.bahai.org
http://news.bahai.org
http://iran.bahai.us
http://tinyurl.com/USHousenotes
http://tinyurl.com/USRES1008
http://www.iranpresswatch.org/
http://tinyurl.com/Britgovappealhttp:...
Category: Education



2) New Video: Khawaran *Silent Hill* Massacre Site- خاوران - جهنم خاموش
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:55 pm    Post subject: To Order Saraab Book By Homa Ehsan Reply with quote

To Order New Book: Saraab and different DVDs By Homa Ehsan Please visit
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Ms. Homa Ehsan Short Biography As Journalist By ActivistChat.com

Biography Overview As A Journalist :

Ms. Homa Ehsan is a pioneer journalist and the first Iranian female reporter and famous Iran National television personality with over 50 years journalism experience. She began her career in National Iranian TV station for children educational programs. She received the Best Female Speaker and Producer awards.

Ms. Homa Ehsan high profile interviews include following exclusives :

- White House: President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Bird Johnson
- Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany Dr. Helmut Kohl
- Interviews with Shah of Iran.
- Interviews with Empress Farah Pahlavi
- Interviews with Iran’s Former Prime Ministers & Ministers
- Interviews with Prince Reza Pahlavi
- Interview with Iran’s Super Star Googoosh



Ms. Homa Ehsan in Exile:
As a Freedom-loving Iranian human rights activist having spent over 25 years on one of the most dangerous assignments journalists have faced in recent history:

- Iranian Satellite TV Political Analyst and Human Rights Activist.
- Former Board member and Deputy Director of IOTM (Iran of Tomorrow Movement)
- Helped Iranian human rights victims and working on many Human Rights violation abuses by Islamist Regime in past 30 years. Archived many interviews with victims of torture and crimes against humanity by IRI
- 2003 - Formally filed a claim against IRI for crimes against humanity in International Criminal Court (ICC) Haig / Nethrland and this is considered as a work in progress. Over the past 25 years the Islamic Clerical regime's agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit all of the above crimes, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.
- Many times threatened to death by Islamists since.1984 for exposing Mullahs Terror Masters in Iran by writing over 100 articles to increase public awareness regarding women rights violations by Mullahs regime.
- Responsible for every day 1 hour Short Wave Radio broadcast to Iran.
- Worked for XTV and Pars TV 24 hours Satellite TV broadcast to US, Europe and Iran.
- 1990-2001 was in charge of 24 Hours LA Persian Radio Station.
- 1984 as founder of “IRANIAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH FESTIVALS” organization managed 22 festivals in U.S and Australia.


Ms. Homa Ehsan in Her Homeland Tehran / Iran :

- Founder of a movement called “MY HOME MY TOWN” in Iran, attracted thousands of followers to clean up the poor neighborhood in Iran and helped to provide health and other essential services.
- 1965 to 1968 Tehran / Iran : In charge of Iran’s “TEEN PRINCE CONTEST” program . as a result Ms. Elaheh Azodi won the World International Teen Prince title.

Education:
She is a graduate of School of Journalism in Heidelberg, Germany and National University in Iran.

Contact Information:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ms. Homa Ehsan
http://www.homaehsan.org
(818) 462-3158
(818) 342-2096



cyrus wrote:
Ms. Homa Ehsan’s speech Washington D.C.

May 1, 2005
Translation by: Ramin Etebar, M.D.



My dear Intellectuals

Today, I speak of a people that humanity’s civilization and welfare is indebted to them.

The great grandchildren of Cyrus the great whose voice from the dawn of knowledge and wisdom has echoed in the passage of time for more than 2500 years .

Cyrus whom at the conquest of Babylon,Sumer and Akkad ordered that no one’s home shall be ruined and everyone is free to worship their own god. During his coronation; He said: As long as I live, I will never impose my rule on any people. The people are free to choose or reject my rule. The document has been hailed as the first charter of human rights, and in 1971 the United Nations published translation of it in all the official U.N. languages. The replica of Cyrus’s cylinder and his decree is displayed in the UN.

I speak of a nation that good thoughts, good deeds and good words by the order of their Ahuramazda religion seek to create beauty, joy and quest for discovering the secrets of universe has been their way of life. A people who ponder of love which encompasses affection, light and knowledge.

Here and today; I speak of a people that humanity’s civilization and welfare is fearful of them. A nation as such resembling an ancient tree that has been uprooted in a historical storm separated from its own culture and dispersed branch by branch.

The Iranians within their own frontiers, in sadness, fear and bad fortune are prisoners of religious leaders whom killing and being killed is their motto, creating hatred, war and mourning ,death and destruction is their value metric.


It is disheartening for me to discuss Iranian human rights whom were the pioneers of first charter of human rights in the world. However it is encouraging that honorable human beings such as yourselves are concerned with the destiny of these fine people.

We need help from all the good human beings to free Iranians and the world from fear, hatred and anger caused by the presence of a blood thirsty regime in Iran. A regime that has created an instrument from religion to frighten all, a regime that has legalized killing,

suppression, and human rights violation referencing these rules to god in which case any objections to these laws are labeled as immorality on earth and combatant against god punishment for which is death. A regime that unfortunately and astonishingly despite all its anti-humanity legislations is accepted officially in the international community membership. A regime that concedes to be non-representative of the people, but assigned

to govern by god, alas its delegates are sitting in the United Nations replacing the true representatives of the Iranians.

In the 2nd article of IRI constitution it is stated that the foundation of governing, and legislation only comes from God. Foundation and basis of legislation comes from Quran

and living tradition of profit Mohammad and his family. “Imam” supreme leader or (Velayate Faghih) is the interpreter of the legislations.

Article 4 of IRI constitution states that all civil, penal financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria. This principle applies absolutely and generally to all articles of the Constitution as well as to all other laws and regulations, and the fuqaha' of the Guardian Council are judges in this matter. The guardian council members are selected by the Imam.

Article 5th of IRI constitution states that during the Occultation of the Wali al-Asr the wilayah and leadership of the nation devolve upon the just and pious faqih until reappearance of the 12th Imam whom the Shia world has been expecting for 14 centuries.

Article 12th of IRI constitution states that the official religion of Iran is Islam and the Twelver Ja'fari school and this principle will remain eternally immutable. In practice the punishment for changing religion is death.

In the article 13th of IRI constitution it is stated that Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian Iranians are the only recognized religious minorities. In practice the rest such as Bahais

are considered infidels whom are denied their civil rights and killing them has been legal.

This regime has been granted membership in the United Nations which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been adopted in its charter, where in UDHR article 21, it emphasizes that “the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures”.
In the article 18th of the UDHR everyone has been given the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 207 of IRI’s penal code states that if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim he will not be subject to death penalty and article 222 states that anyone who kills an insane individual is not subject to prosecutions. Under article 220 of IRI’s Penal Code, a man who kills his own child or his son's child is not subject to discretionary punishment (qesas).

Article 201 of IRI criminal law states that a thief shall be subject to amputation of four fingers of right hand for first offence, the left foot for the second offence, prison for third and execution for the fourth even if the offence occurs in jail. please note ; what can one steal in prison in comparison to the astronomical lootings by the regime leaders.

Eye gouging, stoning, executions in public and amputations of limbs are all legal in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 1988, more than 10,000 of the political dissidents were executed in prison by the order of Khomeini. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights sufficed by issuing a statement criticizing the IRI regime for this genocide, however this mass murder was legal under Article 186 of IRI penal code which states that any person who is involved with or supports an armed opposition against the Islamic government and the divine rule is subject to capital punishment even though the culprit may not be a direct participant in the armed insurgency.

In the regime’s prison’s, young virgin girls are raped in order to prevent them from going to heaven. The dissidents against the divine regime are not permitted entry to the paradise.

It is regrettable that UDHR refers the humans’ quest for justice to the decision of national courts. A political system is constituted of its legislation, when the inhuman laws are attributed to divine rule, where can one seek justice? In which court? With the continued existence of IRI, observation of human rights in Iran is unimaginable. IRI is anti-humanity in its entirety, It must be removed.

The consequences of this regime’s practices is not the only cause of advancing poverty, corruption, prostitution, addiction and crimes in Iran as they consider themselves as the representatives of god that are obligated to promote their rule throughout the world.

Article 11 of the IRI constitution referencing Quran’s Al-Anbiya chapter verses 92 states that the Iranian armed forces’ duties are to engage in Jihad (holy war) for god and to promote the divine rule throughout the world. Based on that verse the Moslems must be armed with the most modern weapons to frighten the enemy and kill the infidels. Therefore regime’s quest to acquire nuclear weapons meaning the most modern arsenal is a divine matter under the god’s direction and is the rule of law, thus chanting slogans of death to America and Israel. They believe that the citizen’s of these countries should be killed.

One of the required principals in Shia Islam is Taghieh, which means that they lie even under oath, when they think their action is helping Islam. Therefore when the regime leaders are under pressure to sign an agreement, they submit only to perform Taghieh and do the exact opposite at a later time. How can one negotiate and reach an agreement with these people?

Recently we broadcasted footage from Dr. ‘Hassan Abbasi, one of regime’s famous theorizing strategists in which he took pride in training suicide bombers and terrorists. Several days ago, a news report indicated that 400 people have graduated from his training camp with a mission to conduct acts of terrorism in the land of “infidels” such as America.

Oh humans

To free the humanity, Iranians or non-Iranians from worry and anxiety caused by the IRI threat, there is only one solution. That is regime changed in Iran.

We do not advocate war and destruction of our innocent Iranian compatriots. Other than appeasement or bombing Iran, there is another solution that we suggest. Help Iranians to remove this mafia-like regime with a systematic approach. The time has come to end the international religious terrorism feeding off the Mullahs in Tehran.

Contact Information:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ms. Homa Ehsan
http://www.homaehsan.org
(818) 462-3158
(818) 342-2096


Homa Ehsan wrote:

Watch Homa Ehsan on Bahai persecution Part 1 of 2. هما احسان ، بهاییت
Homa Ehsan, on Persecution of Bahais i Iran ...

Watch Homa Ehsan on Bahai persecution Part 2 of 2. هما احسان ، بهاییت
Homa Ehsan, on Persecution of Bahais i Iran ...
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:26 pm    Post subject: Iranian Blogger Dies In Prison Under Suspicious Circumstance Reply with quote




Video Created By FREE Iran Blogger Omid For NowRouz 2 Years Ago Called "Noruz dar Bazaar e Tajrish"

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March 19, 2009
Iranian Blogger Dies In Prison Under Suspicious Circumstances

http://www.rferl.org/content/Iranian_Blogger_Dies_In_Prison_Under_Suspicious_Circumstances/1512856.html



An Iranian blogger, Omidreza Mirsayafi, has died in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.

His sister told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that the death of her 28-year-old brother came under suspicious circumstances.

The media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it was "deeply shocked" by the news and called for an investigation into the details of the tragedy.

According to RSF, Mirsayafi's lawyer, Mohamed Ali Dadkhah, was told of his client's death by a doctor, Hesem Firozi, who is himself in prison.

Mirsayafi mostly blogged about traditional Persian music and culture, not politics.

He had been summoned to Tehran's Revolutionary Court for interrogation on February 7.

At the end of the questioning, he was placed in detention.

"The death of this young blogger is entirely due to a failure to provide assistance,” Firozi said.

He said Mirsayafi had been despondent at the refusal of prison authorities to allow him to leave prison.

"I am worried," Mirsayafi told RSF in a recent e-mail. "The problem is not my sentence of two years in prison. But I am a sensitive person. I will not have the energy to live in prison. I want everything to be like it was before. I want to resume my normal life and continue my studies.”

Mirsayafi was first arrested in April 2008. He was released after 41 days in custody on payment of bail of some 72,000 euros.

He was tried in November under articles of Iran's Criminal Code dealing with insults against the country's leaders.

"I am a cultural and not a political blogger," he told RSF after his conviction. "Of all the articles I have posted online, only two or three were satirical. I did not mean to insult anyone."




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امید مير صيافى، وبلاگ نويس ايرانى در زندان اوین درگذشت


اميد رضا مير صيافى، وبلاگ نويس ايرانى كه بهمن ماه گذشته براى سپرى كردن حكم دو سال و نيم حبس خود بازداشت شده بود روز چهارشنبه در زندان اوین درگذشت.

محمد على دادخواه، وكيل آقاى مير صيافى در گفت و گو با راديو فردا اعلام كرد كه بى توجهى مسئولان زندان اوين در رسيدگى به وضعيت ناراحتى قلبى موكل او منجر به فوت وى شده است.

وى گفت: «دكتر حسام فيروزى از زندان اوين با من تماس گرفت و گفت كه ضربان قلب میر صيافى منظم نمى زده است و او را به بيمارستان برده اند. چون خود آقاى فيروزى پزشك است به مسئولان زندان گفته كه به چه نحو به او رسيدگى كنند و توصيه كرده است كه آقاى مير صيافى را به بيمارستان لقمان ببرند.»

آقاى دادخواه افزود: «ولى مسئولان زندان به اين حرف دكتر فيروزى توجه نكردند و گفتند كه مير صيافى تمارض مى كند. آقاى فيروزى پاسخ مى دهد كه ضربان قلب وى كمتر از ۴۰ است و او نمى تواند تمارض كند. وى را از اتاق بيرون مى كنند. آقاى فيروزى گفته است كه من پزشك سازمان ملل هستم ولى او را بيرون مى كنند.»

اين وكيل دادگسترى اظهار داشت: «اين طورى كه آقاى دكتر فيروزى به من اطلاع داده است، به علت عدم توجه، اميدرضا ميرصيافى فوت كرده است. اين در هيچ نگرش انسانى قابل پذيرش نيست.»

اميد رضا مير صيافى، نويسنده وبلاگ «روزنگار» در سوم ارديبهشت ماه سال ۸۷ دستگير و پس از ۴۱ روز حبس به قيد وثيقه از زندان آزاد شد.

«قاعدتا يك دستگاه رسالت مند نسبت به جان انسانى بايد بين حكم قضايى و انسان بيمار و تحت شرايط ويژه تمايز قائل شود. اگر قرار باشد كه هر كسى وظيفه خود را فراموش كند هيچ هنجارى پابر جا نمى ماند.»

محمد على دادخواه، وكيل امید رضا مير صيافىشعبه پانزدهم دادگاه انقلاب در آبان ماه سال جارى، وى را به اتهام تبليغ عليه نظام به شش ماه حبس تعزيرى و به اتهام توهين به آيت الله خمينى و آيت الله خامنه اى به دو سال حبس تعزيرى محكوم كرد.

سازمان هاى بين المللى از جمله گزارشگران بدون مرز با صدور اطلاعيه هايى اين حكم را محكوم كرده و آن را بسيار سنگين دانستند.

محمد على دادخواه، وكيل اميد رضا مير صيافى به راديو فردا مى گويد كه دادگاه انقلاب حاضر نشد تا حكم موكل خود را به وى ابلاغ كند.

وى اظهار داشت: «كدام منطق، اصول، شرع و اخلاقى چنين مسئله اى را مى پذيرد؟ اگر وى توهين كرده است طبق قانون بايد در دو مرحله در دادگاه مورد رسيدگى قرار گيرد. طبق كدام قاعده، على رغم تبصره ماده ۴۲ قانون آيين دادرسى دادگاه هاى انقلاب كه مى گويد بايد حكم به وكيل ابلاغ شود، بدون ابلاغ آن به اجرا در مى آيد؟»

اين نخستين بار نيست كه يك زندانى سياسى در ايران در زمان حبس خود فوت مى كند. بر اساس گزارش هاى رسمى، طى سال هاى اخير حدود ۹ زندانى سياسى در زندان هاى ايران جان خود را از دست داده اند.

دو هفته پيش، امير حسين حشمت ساران، دبيركل جبهه اتحاد ملى ايران كه به ۱۶ سال حبس محكوم شده بود، در «بيمارستان رجايى» گوهردشت كرج فوت كرد.

پيشتر، اكبر محمدى از فعالان دانشجويى، زهرا كاظمى، روزنامه نگار ايرانى – كانادايى و ولى الله فيض مهدوى، فعال سياسى در زندان هاى ايران جان خود را از دست داده بودند.

آقاى دادخواه در باره علت تكرار چنين حوادثى در زندان هاى ايران مى گويد: «قاعدتا يك دستگاه رسالت مند نسبت به جان انسانى بايد بين حكم قضايى و انسان بيمار و تحت شرايط ويژه تمايز قائل شود. اگر قرار باشد كه هر كسى وظيفه خود را فراموش كند هيچ هنجارى پابر جا نمى ماند.»

وى اظهار داشت: «مگر آقاى آوايى (رئيس كل دادگسترى استان تهران) به عنوان ناظر نسبت به حقوق شهروندى نبايد در باره اين مسئله مسئوليت داشته باشد؟ آيا قانون، نوعى نيست يا اينجا با تبعيض اعمال مى شود؟»

اين وكيل دادگسترى مى گويد: «آيا نگرش حقوق بشرى با توجه به پيوستن ايران به كليت ميثاق مدنى، سياسى، اجتماعى و اقتصادى كه همه مفاد اعلاميه جهانى حقوق بشر را پذيرفته است و بايد به عنوان حقوق شهروندى اجرا شود در خصوص يك جوانى كه توهين كرده است بايد ناديده گرفته شود؟»

آقاى دادخواه با اشاره به نامه نگارى هاى گسترده خود با رييس دادگاه، هيئت حقوق شهروندى، داديار ناظر اجراى احكام و معاضدت قضايى در باره وضعيت امير رضا مير صيافى گفت: «همه كسانى كه نسبت به اين موضوع تبعيض قائل شدند در قبال اين واقعه مسئول هستند.
خوشبختانه تمام اين موارد براى بررسى مفتوح است تا سيه روى شود هر كه در او غش باشد.»


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The Iran Most People Do Not Know
Posted By texpat On Thursday, March 19, 2009 @ 8:02 am In Front Page | 5 Comments
http://lonestartimes.com/2009/03/19/the-iran-most-people-do-not-know/

While Americans are vigorously and loudly exercising their right to freely speak their opinions, it is understandable they would take for granted this self-evident truth. I would remind today the simple pleasures we and millions enjoy in the blogosphere are denied to many others, resulting in harassment, imprisonment and death at the hands of despotic regimes around the world.

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This gentle young man, who blogged about Persian music and culture, [2] is dead and reports indicate he committed suicide in the notoriously evil Evin prison in Teheran where he was confined for publishing a mildly satirical piece about the Iranian government. He was only 29 years old and his name was Omidreza Mirsayafi.

“I am worried,” Mirsayafi told RSF in a recent e-mail. “The problem is not my sentence of two years in prison. But I am a sensitive person. I will not have the energy to live in prison. I want everything to be like it was before. I want to resume my normal life and continue my studies.”

Mirsayafi was first arrested in April 2008. He was released after 41 days in custody on payment of bail of some 72,000 euros.

He was tried in November under articles of Iran’s Criminal Code dealing with insults against the country’s leaders.

“I am a cultural and not a political blogger,” he told RSF after his conviction. “Of all the articles I have posted online, only two or three were satirical. I did not mean to insult anyone.”

The repugnant fools ruling Iran today are faced with a single, barely controllable and immensely subversive foe - the blogosphere. Iran is one of the most blog-crazy nations on earth and as the video above notes, fully one-half of the population in Iran is under 25 years old.

[3] Remember the risks they take each day just booting up and logging on to the internet.

Now you may return to insulting each other, politicians and the government while fearing only the words of your fellow bloggers. Don’t forget to pause and appreciate the opportunity to do so freely.


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[3] Remember the risks: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/themes/news/single-news/article/young-blogger-dies-in-prison.html



[ur=http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=Death+to+bloggers+l]Shock at death of blogger in Tehran prison Reporters without borders (press release)[/url]

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:36 pm    Post subject: Shock at death of blogger in Tehran prison Reply with quote

Reporters Without Borders wrote:

Shock at death of blogger in Tehran prison

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30622

Reporters Without Borders said today it was deeply shocked at the death in a Tehran prison of blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi and called for the immediate opening of an investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy.

His lawyer, Mohamed Ali Dadkhah, was informed of the blogger’s death by a doctor, Hesem Firozi, who is himself imprisoned. The young blogger had been depressed and no longer able to cope with prison conditions. The doctor said, “The death of this young blogger is entirely due to a failure to provide assistance.” Omidreza Mirsayafi had been devastated at the prison authorities’ refusal to allow him permission to leave the prison.

”We hold the Iranian authorities entirely responsible for the death of Omidreza Mirsayafi. He was unfairly arrested and they failed to provide him with the necessary medical care”, the worldwide press freedom organisation said. “His death is a sad reminder of the fact that the Iranian regime is one of the harshest in the world for journalists and bloggers. We call for the setting up of an independent commission to determine this young man’s cause of death.”

The blogger was summoned to Tehran’s revolutionary court for interrogation on 7 February 2009. At the end of the questioning, he was placed in detention. To this date, his lawyers have still not received any notice of sentence from the court.

The blogger was first arrested on 22 April 2008 and then released after 41 days in custody on payment of bail of 100 million tomans (72,000 euros). He was tried on 2 November under Articles 500 and 514 of the criminal code under which “anyone who insults the Supreme Guide Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the country’s leaders, is liable for six months to two years in prison (Art 514) and “anyone making propaganda against the state is liable to three months to one year in prison (Art. 500).

Most of the articles on Mirsayafi’s blog were about traditional Persian music and about culture. After his conviction, he told Reporters Without Borders, “I am a cultural and not a political blogger. Of all the articles I have posted online, only two or three were satirical. I did not mean to insult anyone.” His blog, Rooznegaar, is no longer accessible.

In a recent email to Reporters Without Borders, Mirsayafi spoke about his distress: “I am worried. The problem is not my sentence of two years in prison. But I am a sensitive person. I will not have the energy to live in prison. I want everything to be like it was before. I want to resume my normal life and continue my studies.”
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:19 am    Post subject: Will Obama Listen to Iran's Bloggers? Reply with quote

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Will Obama Listen to Iran's Bloggers?


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123785115192919205.html#printMode

Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a "great civilization" for "accomplishments" that "have earned the respect of the United States and the world." The death of Iranian blogger Omid-Reza Mirsayafi in Tehran's Evin prison two days earlier was, presumably, not among the accomplishments the president had in mind.


Zina Saunders
Kianoosh Sanjari.

Mr. Obama's solicitous message, timed to the Persian New Year's celebration of Nowruz, met a blunt response from the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei: "He insulted the Islamic Republic of Iran from the first day," he said. "If you are right that change has come, where is that change?" To this, soi-disant Iran experts and latter-day Walter Durantys explain that it is merely Mr. Khamenei's opening gambit in what promises to be a glorious new chapter in Iranian-U.S. relations.

Maybe the experts never got the message about no meaning no. And maybe Mr. Obama forgot that the late Ayatollah Khomeini tried to ban Nowruz, a pre-Islamic tradition, and that both Mr. Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have sought to curtail and Islamicize the holiday against widespread resistance. But never mind: The most telling indicator of what we can expect from Mr. Obama's overture is Mirsayafi's death, a fitting emblem of everything the Islamic Revolution stands for on its 30th anniversary.

What was a blogger doing in prison in the first place? Ask 26-year-old Kianoosh Sanjari, another Iranian blogger and Evin prison alumnus who fled the country in 2007 and is now in the U.S. seeking asylum.

Mr. Sanjari was first arrested at 17 for joining a procession commemorating the first anniversary of the violently suppressed 1999 student protests at Tehran University. Over the next seven years he was arrested nine times, imprisoned six, flipped between "official" and secret prisons, surveilled and harassed by the secret police, subjected to endless interrogations, held both in overcrowded cells and incommunicado in solitary confinement (for a total of nine months), beaten while blindfolded and subjected to extreme sensory deprivation.

"When you express your dissatisfaction in a civil way and you're faced with physical violence and cruelty, you realize the baseness of the equation," Mr. Sanjari tells me, explaining the impulses that animated his dissent. "The moment you go to prison is when you realize you are in the right. And when you see what nefarious people the regime has to break you is when you feel the need to fight back."

Between prison terms Mr. Sanjari headed the Association of Political Prisoners, which follows more than 500 known cases in Iran. About Mirsayafi, he says that when his fellow blogger "found out that he had been summoned to court and that he may end up with a prison sentence, he wrote an email to friends. He said he felt powerless to withstand what torture he would have to face in prison. He also told a mutual friend that he did not think he would survive the imprisonment. He was well aware of the fact that they wanted to do away with him."

Mirsayafi's forebodings proved well-justified. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports that he was taken to the prison hospital shortly before his death with an irregular pulse. "The doctor told [the prison authorities] how to treat him, asked him to send him to a city hospital," Mirsayafi's lawyer told RFE/RL's Radio Farda. "But they ignored the doctor and said [Mirsayafi] was faking his illness. The doctor said, 'his heartbeat is 40 per minute, you can't fake that.' But they sent the doctor out of the room." Prison authorities ruled the death a suicide; Mirsayafi was only 25.

Whether Mirsayafi's death cows or emboldens Iran's dissident bloggers remains to be seen. Not the least of their considerations will be the attitude of Mr. Obama, who in his videotaped address went out of his way to speak of "the Islamic Republic of Iran," thereby giving the mullahs claim to a nation, and a civilization, they have done so much to oppress and degrade. Yes, an American president must look first, second and third to American interests. But a presidency predicated on the view that our values are our strength should not forsake those values for diplomatic expediency, much less betray our friends abroad who live, and have died, by those values.

Shortly after Mr. Obama's inauguration, Mr. Sanjari put his name to an open letter to the new president, signed by several prominent young Iranian dissidents, calling on him "to pay special attention to the repressive, unaccountable nature of the regime" that now threatens and provokes the U.S. and our allies. Its conclusion is as fitting a tribute as any to Mirsayafi's notable and too-brief life:

"Mr. President, you marked your first day in the White House by ordering the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison. But in our country, many Guantanamos exist, only our Guantanamos are home to students, women's rights activists, labor organizers, political activists, and journalists. We, as former student activists who spent time in Iranian prisons under inhumane conditions, call on you and all those who defend human rights, freedom and equality to express solidarity to the people of Iran as they wage their struggle for freedom."

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:58 am    Post subject: Deaths in custody in Iran highlight prison authorities' disr Reply with quote



Deaths in custody in Iran highlight prison authorities' disregard for life
20 March 2009

http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200903209840&lang=e&rss=recentnews

The death in custody of an internet blogger in Iran on Wednesday raised renewed fears that prisoners in the country are being denied medical treatment, possibly as an extra punishment.

Omid Reza Mirsayafi's death follows that of another political prisoner, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, who died in suspicious circumstances on 6 March after five years in prison.

"The full circumstances of both prisoners' deaths have yet to become clear, but it appears that both may have resulted from a failure or refusal on the part of the prison authorities to allow them urgently needed medical treatment," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

"The Iranian authorities have an obligation to ensure that both deaths are urgently and impartially investigated, and to ensure that any officials responsible for denying or withholding medical treatment or for contributing to these prisoners' deaths in other ways are brought to justice."

Omid Reza Mirsayafi died at Tehran's Evin Prison less than six weeks after starting a 30-month sentence. He was convicted of "insulting the Supreme Leader" and "propaganda against the system" in relation to articles he had written on his blog. He denied the charges.

He is reported to have been suffering from depression, for which he received some medication from the prison clinic and to have become seriously ill after taking an overdose.

Another prisoner, who is a medical doctor, Dr Hesam Firouzi, provided immediate assistance and recommended his hospitalization. Despite this prison staff were reported to have failed to recognize the seriousness of his condition and did not transfer him to hospital.

Two weeks earlier, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran died at a hospital in Karaj shortly after he was taken there from Raja’i Shahr (or Gohardasht) Prison. He was serving an eight-year sentence imposed in 2004 for establishing the United National Front political party.

He died after he was reported to have become seriously ill on 4 March. His wife has said that, when she visited him in hospital on 5 March, he appeared to be in a coma and that he was shackled to the hospital bed. After his death, a hospital doctor told her that he had suffered a brain haemorrhage and a lung infection and that he should have been hospitalized sooner.

Other political prisoners have died in custody in suspicious circumstances in recent years. Abdolreza Rajabi, a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), died unexpectedly in Reja'i Shahr Prison on 30 October 2008.

In 2006, Akbar Mohammadi, a student, died in Evin Prison, and Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi, a PMOI member under sentence of death, died in Reja’i Shahr Prison after hunger strikes in which they were apparently denied adequate medical attention.

"These latest deaths underline the urgent need for the Iranian authorities to improve prison conditions and to take immediate measures to ensure that all prisoners in their custody are treated humanely," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.

"It is shameful that the health of prisoners is disregarded to such an extent that they are denied potentially life-saving treatment and allowed to die while in the care of the state. We fear that refusal of timely medical care is being used as another tactic in the arsenal of repression of dissent in Iran."
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Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/The_Writing_Of_Omidreza_MirSayafi/1514740.html
March 22, 2009
An Iranian student, writing under a pseudonym in the Huffington Post, pays tribute to the writing of blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi, who died last week in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. Here is Mirsayafi:


I feel like a stranger in my own house...Is it really the ancient Persia I am living in? Is it the land of Cyrus the Great?... It must be a nightmare I am having. This is not Persia. This is the Islamic Republic.

I have never been a person who would stoop to self-censoring and will never be.

And then these horribly prescient words, written by Mirsayafi in July 2006 about the death of a political prisoner:


Whether he died a natural death or was killed under torture, does not matter. He is no longer among us...Dear Akbar! I wish you a peaceful journey...trust me, you won't be missing many things in here...We are sorry that all we did for you were just writing letters, chanting slogans, or shedding a few tears...Forgive me!

Sooner or later, we have to leave our keys and check out. But the question is: Go where?...

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:33 am    Post subject: Call for independent probe into imprisoned blogger’s death a Reply with quote

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Call for independent probe into imprisoned blogger’s death a week ago


http://www.rsf.org/print.php3?id_article=30675

Reporters Without Borders calls for an independent enquiry into the death of the young blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi (http://rooznegaar.blogfa.com) in detention on 18 March. Mirsayafi was hastily buried in Tehran’s Behesht Zahar cemetery on 19 March without an autopsy being carried out. In a bid to find out how he died, his family has brought a complaint against the officials in charge of Evin prison, where he was held.

“The authorities took advantage of the family’s grief and distress to bury Mirsayafi without an autopsy,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We insist on a full explanation of the circumstances of this young blogger’s death in detention. We have been told that this is a case of homicide, in which case those responsible must be brought to trial and punished. We demand the creation of an independent commission of enquiry.”

Reporters Without Borders has learned that, according to the forensic doctor, the Evin prison documents detailing the time of Mirsayafi’s transfer to Loghman Hakim hospital and the time of his death contain irregularities.

“The Evin prison authorities and the judiciary authority want now to portray Mirsayafi as ‘depressive and suicidal’ but this new information suggests there was a failure to assist a person in danger. We believe the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression and the special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings should go as quickly as possible to Iran to investigate this case.”

Reporters Without Borders urged the Tehran authorities in vain on 18 March to allow independent forensic doctors to carry out an autopsy, as his lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, had requested.

A Tehran revolutionary court sentenced Mirsayafi on 15 December to two years in prison for “insulting leaders of the Islamic Republic” and six months in prison for “propaganda against the government” in the entries he had posted on his blog. He began serving the sentences following his arrest in Tehran on 7 February. His lawyers never received a copy of the court’s sentences.

On 26 march 2009, Reporters Without Borders publishes the last letter Omidreza Mirsayafi sent to the organization before his detention (read it).


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:44 am    Post subject: This is my story Reply with quote

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This is my story

Source URL: http://www.rsf.org/print.php3?id_article=30697

Personal details

Given name: Omid-Reza

Surname: Mirsiyafi

Age: 28

Date of birth: 1 August 1980

Profession: Freelance journalist : Work experience: the newspaper Javan (2005-2006); the newspaper Ayande-ye now (2007); the Swedish radio station Hamseda (2004-2006); the radio station Zamane (2007); an arts and music website (2004-2007).

I started my blog at the same time as I began working as a journalist, in 2003. The blog was intended above all to be artistic and cultural, but it sometimes included satirical entries. I also started getting involved in cultural activities from 2006 onwards. In the past, I researched traditional music and classical Iranian literature but I never imagined that I would get involved politically. Once, in 2001, I took part in a demonstration in Tehran. As a result, I was arrested and held for 20 days in Evin prison. A court then acquitted me.

Four security officials from the Tehran revolutionary court prosecutor’s office came and arrested me at my home on 22 April 2008, seized many of my personal items (including my computer, manuscripts, personal papers and music files) and took me to Evin prison without telling me the reason for my arrest. The next day I was taken handcuffed before the revolutionary court and accused of activities against the country’s security on the grounds of what I had posted on my blog. I was also accused of insulting the Islamic Republic’s leaders and the saints of Islam. The investigating judge ordered me placed in pre-trial detention. While held in Evin prison, I was interrogated 20 times about these charges without being able to talk to a lawyer.

Under considerable psychological pressure, I finally admitted to the main charges against me, namely, trying to overthrow the government in cooperation with groups opposed to the Islamic Republic, posting comments on my blog that insulted Islam and its saints and government leaders and officials, and relations with government opponents abroad. After being held for 41 days, I was released on payment of bail equivalent to 100,000 dollars.

On the last day of my detention, I was forced to repeat my confession in front of a camera. This is now a standard practice designed to place defendants under the threat of seeing their confession broadcast on state television if the authorities deem it necessary. My case was tried by the 15th chamber of the revolutionary court on 2 November and I was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for insulting government leaders and officials and for propaganda against the regime. I was notified of the sentence on 16 December.

The lawyer now handling my case, Mohammad-Ali Dadkhah, whom I had contacted while on temporary leave from prison, noticed while at the court building on 2 February that the judge had transferred my case to the sentence enforcement office without his being given a copy of the verdict and sentence so that he could challenge it.

The 2 November hearing before the 15th chamber of the revolutionary court took place without the deputy prosecutor being present. It lasted 45 minutes. The court’s experts said my blog did not have enough visitors to be considered a publication or work of propaganda against the government. They also said my actions were not ill-intentioned.

Nonetheless, the judge sentenced me on 6 December to two and a half years in prison for publishing articles hostile to the government and insulting the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Khomeiny, and the current Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Khamenei. The charge of insulting Islam’s saints is meanwhile still pending. Although rendered on 6 December, the court still has not notified my lawyer of the verdict and sentence. This is against the law.

The court contacted me on 10 January to tell me that the 21-day deadline for submitting my defence and requesting a revision of the verdict had expired. I replied that my lawyer had not received any notification of the verdict and had therefore been unable to make a defence submission to the court. Mr. Dadkhah told me that, in his view, the court had deliberately refrained from notifying him of the verdict because of the likelihood that it would be revised on appeal and that the court was therefore trying to have the sentence implemented as quickly as possible. That is my story.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:52 am    Post subject: Hold Iran Responsible for Death of Blogger Mirsayafi in Pris Reply with quote

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We urge Iranian officials to stand accountable for death of Iranian blogger and prisoner of conscience Omid Reza Mirsayafi in Evin prison of Tehran. We urge international political and rights organizations, governments and every individual around the globe to firmly ask for an independent probe into the case of Mirsayafi.

Next Mirsayafi could be me!




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(19 March 2009) The death of an imprisoned blogger inside Evin Prison on 18 March, following the recent death of another prisoner of conscience, demonstrates that Iranian authorities are seriously neglecting the health of prisoners the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign called on the Iranian Judiciary to immediately investigate and prosecute prison officials for their neglect and responsibility in these deaths.

The Campaign reminds Iranian authorities that under international human rights law, they are held accountable for the health and safety of prisoners.

“Iranian leaders have relegated the administration of the prison system to a group of incompetent and cruel officials who are showing their utter disregard for human life,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the Campaign’s spokesperson.

“If the authorities do not move quickly to hold negligent officials responsible, they are reinforcing impunity and the lack of accountability,” he added.

On 18 March, 29-year-old blogger Alireza Mirsayafi died while in Tehran’s Evin prison. According to an account by Hesam Firoozi, a physician also imprisoned in Evin, Mirsayafi had taken extra doses of his medication. Firoozi’s account, as provided by the Human Rights Activists in Iran, notes that Mirsayafi suffered from serious depression. Firoozi was present during the initial stages of Mirsayafi’s treatment inside the prison’s medical clinic and reported that the prison doctors failed to provide proper care by not sending him immediately to a hospital to save his life.

Mirsayafi was prosecuted solely for his opinions expressed in his private blog. He was charged with insulting the authorities and sentenced to two years and six months in prison.

In an interview with the Campaign on 16 December 2008, Mirsayafi said his blog was completely private and was read only by a few of his friends. He also said that expert testimony by an Intelligence Ministry official during his trial emphasized this point and that he should not receive such a heavy sentence.

Mirsayafi’s lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, told the Campaign that Mirsayafi’s sentenced was rushed into implementation without proper judicial procedures and that he had not been notified officially of the sentence before its implementation.

“From the Judge who sentenced Mirsayafi solely for his peaceful opinions, to the prison medical staff who ignored his critical condition, a host of judiciary and prison officials are responsible for his death. Mirsayafi’s death is an indication of the cruelty of Iranian Intelligence and security agencies abusing the courts with the cooperation of the Judiciary,” Ghaemi said.

On 6 March, Amir Saran, a political prisoner serving an 8-year sentence for his political activities, died of a brain stroke. His family and associates have alleged negligence and lack of proper care by prison officials as the causes of his death.

(International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:18 pm    Post subject: Letter to President Obama Reply with quote

Roxanne Ganji wrote:

Letter to President Obama

President Barack ObamaThe White House
Sent Via Fax to FAX: 202-456-2461 March 30, 2009

March 30, 2009

Dear President Obama:

Over the weekend I was reading these two articles (included below) sent to me by a few of my compatriots. While reading these heart wrenching articles I started thinking about your Norooz message not only to the Iranian people but to the current Iranian government.

Dear President Obama, was your message directed to the family of Omid Reza MirSayafi a young Iranian blogger who died in the Evin prison on the eve of Norooz, due to the negligent behavior of the prison officials and who knows why he truly died. (I have attached herewith as the second article more information sent to me regarding this case). Was this message directed to the thousands of young Iranians held or tortured, maimed and killed in the dungeons of the Ayatollah's just like Omid Reza and Akbar Mohammadi..........????

President Obama, was your address directed to the millions of women who have been suffering at the hands of this regime for the past thirty years? Women who play the most important role in any society as the mother, educator, mentor, wife....have lost their most basic rights under this regime. If it wasn't the drive and guts of the Iranian women themselves they wouldn't have the little rights that they have acquired today either. Dear Mr. President, please read the first article attached below regarding the "Women Rights Activists who were Arbitrarily Detained, Preventing New Years Visits with the families of political prisoners." These detainees were taken to the Evin Prison on the same eve that you issued your statement to these terrorist mullah's holding our nation hostage for the past thirty years.

I am sure you are well aware of the domestic situation in my homeland, the level of addiction, the level of prostitution in order to provide for one's family, the level of poverty, the citizen's of my country having to sell their bodily organs such as Kidney to be able to feed their families for a couple of months, the number of young children the same as you beautiful daughters freezing to death in cardboard boxes they call home (in the streets). This is the re ali ty of my country and this regime can't and won't do anything about it. The people of Iran no longer want these hudlums who have brought them nothing but misery and grief.

As many of my compatriots have written to you during the past few weeks other U.S. administrations had tried the avenue of holding a dialogue with this regime. Not so openly but they all tried in their own way and none of them were successful.

Dear President Obama. I hope now that you and your administration are determined to have a dialogue with these irrational mullah's you will keep the pressure on their pressure point with regards to the Human Rights issues facing the people of my homeland. Is that not why the world and especially President Carter was screaming loud and clear 30 years ago when they truly did not know the re ali ty of what was going on in Iran and didn't think of the consequences of this Islamic Revolution not only for Iran but the whole world. Today the report card of this regime has been an open record for the past thirty years and I don't need to review it.

Dear Mr. President, please think of the future of the children of my homeland who know they have no future under this terrorist regime. As Iranians we re ali ze it is up to us to make the change and bring about regime change and instill a democratic, secular regime that respects the territorial integrity of Iran and has respect for Human Rights of "ALL" Iranians irrespective of their religious or ethnic backgrounds. However, we do need the moral support of democratic nations to succeed and we count on the United States to support the freedom movement inside and outside Iran .

Once again I would like to urge you to make the issue of the Rights of the Iranian people your priority issue when de ali ng with the regime of the "Ayatollah's".

Respectfully yours,

Roxanne Ganji
Spokesperson

iranhumanrights.org wrote:

Iran: Women’s Rights Activists Arbitrarily Detained, Preventing New Year Visits


(26 March 2009) Iranian authorities should immediately release a dozen women’s rights activists detained arbitrarily in Tehran today, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said.

Security forces detained 12 members of the One Million Signatures Campaign and Mothers for Peace at a street corner as the group met to make private New Year visits to families of several prisoners of conscience. With the Persian New Year holidays underway, it is customary for families and friends to visit each other.

As of this evening, local time, all detainees have been transferred to Evin Prison. A judge named Matin Rasekh has charged them with “disturbing public opinion” and “disruption of public order.”

The=2 0arrests suggest that security and intelligence forces have been surveilling and eavesdropping on activists’ private communications. Police forces arrested the group at their meeting place, on Sohrevardi Street in Tehran , before they could embark on their private visits, the website Change for Equality reported.

“The paranoia and intolerance of the intelligence agencies have reached unbelievable proportions. There is no justification whatsoever to deny activists their rights to visit each other during New Year celebrations,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the Campaign’s spokesperson.

According to the latest information from Tehran, the names of the twelve detainees are: Delaram Ali, Khadijeh Moghadam, Leila Nazari, Farkhondeh Ehtesabian, Mahboubeh Karami, Bahara Behravan, Ali Abdi, Amir Rashidi, Mohammad Shoorab, Arash Nasiri Eghb ali , Soraya Yousefi and Shahla Forouzanfar.

After the security forces detained the group at Sohrevardi Street , they were taken to Niloofar Police Station. At around 8:30 pm local time, the detainees were transferred to Evin Prison and held in section 209, which is under the control of the Intelligence Ministry.

“We are seriously concerned about the fate of detainees and the absolute lack of transparency and due process demonstrated by this case. For what crime are they being held? Is observing New Year traditions now a crime in Iran ? The Iranian leaders should step forward and explain why intelligence agents are given free reign to deprive citizens of their most basic rights,” Ghaemi said.


For the latest human rights developments in Iran visit the Campaign’s website at www.iranhumanrights.org



For more information:



Hadi Ghaemi, in New York : +1 917-669-5996

Aaron Rhodes, in Vienna : +43 676-635-6612
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:28 am    Post subject: Torture In Iran By Islamist and Mullahs Invaders and Occupie Reply with quote

Torture In Iran By Islamist and Mullahs Invaders and Occupiers Of Iran
Ahmad Batebi tells CNN's Anderson Cooper, in his 1st U.S. television interview how he was tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison and how he managed to escape.

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PostPosted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:38 am    Post subject: Outcry as Iran executes artist over juvenile conviction Reply with quote

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• Delara Darabi, 22, is hanged in breach of UN convention
• Murder confession was made at age 17 but later withdrawn
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/02/iran-artist-darabi-execution-juvenile


guardian.co.uk, Saturday 2 May 2009 15.03 BST Article history

An Amnesty protest outside Iran's London embassy in support of Delara Darabi, who has since been executed for a crime committed when she was 17. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

Human rights groups have renewed attacks on Iran's policy of executing juvenile offenders after a woman painter was hanged for a murder allegedly committed when she was 17. Delara Darabi was hanged in Rasht prison yesterday despite having apparently won a temporary stay of her sentence last month from Iran's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Campaigners say she was executed without her family or lawyer being informed 48 hours in advance as Iranian law requires.

Darabi, 22, had spent five years in jail after being convicted of murdering her father's wealthy female cousin. She initially confessed to the crime but later insisted that her boyfriend carried out the murder to steal the 65-year-old woman's money. The boyfriend persuaded her to confess, she claimed, by convincing her she would not be executed because of her age.

On death row, Darabi developed a love of painting and painted several works that depicted her incarceration and asserted her innocence. A collection of her work was displayed at an exhibition in Tehran by supporters campaigning to free her. Darabi's lawyer, Abdolsamad Khoramshahi, had appealed against sentence, arguing that her conviction had been based solely on her confession and that her trial had failed to consider vital evidence.

Mohammad Mostafei, an Iranian lawyer campaigning against the death penalty, told Human Rights Watch that Darabi was visited by her parents the day before her execution and told them she was confident her appeal would be heard. But on Friday morning she phoned them saying she was about to be executed and pleaded with them to save her life. Mostafei said a prison official then came on the line and told her parents: "We will easily execute your daughter and there's nothing you can do about it."

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say Iran executes the most juvenile offenders of any country, in breach of the UN convention on the rights of the child, which forbids the death penalty for crimes committed under the age of 18.

Lawyers estimate 130 prisoners are on death row in Iran for offences committed as minors.

Campaigners accuse the country of attempting to hide the practice by waiting until offenders pass the age of 18 before executing them.


Dr. Kianzad wrote:

حکومتگران جمهوری اسلامی سرانجام دل آرا دارابی را اعدام کردند

آیا از سیستم قضایی قرون وسطایی و عصر بربریت ولایت فقیه ، میتوان انتظار دیگری را جز این حکم داشت؟


دل آرا دارابی که اکنون پس از شش سال رنج ودرد، ترس وامید بزندگی در دل سیاه خاک ابدی آرمیده است، بمانند همه ی آن هزاران هزاری که در سی سال گذشته با گناه و یا بیگناه در محاکم جمهوری اسلامی محکوم گردیده اند، قربانی نهادهای سرکوبگر قضایی رژیمی گشته اند، که قوانین باصطلاح شرعی جزایی اش چونان مفسد فی الارض، تنبیه های بدنی با تازیانه، قطع دست و پا، سنگسار و دیگرآزار های روحی روان پریشانه از دوران قرون وسطاء و عصر بربریت تازیان، سرچشمه گرفته است. بنابراین، تنها پرداختن به" شرح واقعه" و چگونگی اتهام و آنچه که در شش سال گذشته در اسارتگاه ملایان بیرحم و سنگدل بر سر دل آرا دارابی ، که عبدالصمد خرمشاهی و کیل مدافع اش، او را دختری بی گناه، مظلوم، آرام و متین و پاک و بی آلایش تعریف میکند، دیگر دردی را دوا نمیکند و پادزهری التیام بخش بر زخم های عریان قربانیان و بازماندگان شان بر گرفته از نظام قضایی و حقوقی ولایت ارتجاعی فقیه، نخواهد بود. حکومتگزاران جمهوری اسلامی در درازای سی سال گذشته بسیاری از آزادیخواهان و مخالفین خود را در درون و بیرون از کشور با ترور و قتل و جنایت، از میان برداشته اند. قتل های زنجیره ای فروهرها، مختاری ها، قاسملوها، شرفکندی ها، بختیارها، زهرا کاظمی ها، بنی یعغوبی ها و در این هفته ها و روز های واپسین میرصیافی ها و صد ها دیگر، "مشتی نمونه خرواری است" آشکار از کاربرد یک سیستم قضایی ضد بشری و فاشیستی، که بنیان اش نه بر حقوق بشر و ارزش های های متعارف جهانشمول "عدل و داد و مردمی" ، بلکه بر کینه توزی و انتقام جویی و سرانجام مرگ و نابودی پر درد و شقاوت انسانها، قرار گرفته است . سرنوشت دل آرا دارابی ، هشداری است بر همه ی کوشندگان سیاسی آزادیخواه، بویژه دراین روزهای "پر جنب وجوش و هیاهوی انتخاباتی"؟! که بخاطر برخی مناسبات میان گروهی پشت پرده، چشم بروی این جنایات و بی عدالتی های رژیم ستم ملایی نبندند، بیدادگریها را بر شمارند، حکومتگران آنرا با جسارت به چالش کشیده و کنش ها ی ضد حقوق بشری و ننگ آورشان را آشکارا، محکوم سازند



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PostPosted: Sun May 03, 2009 5:45 pm    Post subject: Nazanin's thoughts on Delara Reply with quote

Nazanin Afshin-Jam wrote:




On May 1st 2009, artist Delara Darabi was executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran after spending almost six years in prison for an alleged offence committed at age 17. She maintained her innocence up until the very end.

Below is a note written by Nazanin Afshin-Jam, President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions organization about Delara and the injustices of her case.

After reading the below please sign the petition to end all child executions at www.stopchildexecutions.com



Delara lives on

I am at a loss for words. My heart is empty and my tears are flowing.

I have just finished reading the details by attorney Mohammad Mostafaei of the minutes leading up to Delara’s execution. It is just too painful http://scenews.blog.com/4885252/

Delara, I have known you for almost three years. We tried our best to keep you alive. We informed and had the High Commission on Human Rights at the UN, the European Union and Parliaments worldwide act on your behalf. We spread awareness through the media, to human rights groups worldwide. We kept in touch with your family and your lawyers. We conducted speeches and rallies worldwide. We sent you art supplies in prison and letters from supporters to keep your spirits high. We tried our best to get in touch with the family of the deceased and convince them to understand the severity of taking a young life away. We tried Delara. We tried but we failed.

You are no longer with us in body, but your presence will live on forever, in the hearts of all the volunteers at Stop Child Executions, all the lawyers and human rights defenders fighting for justice, and millions of supporters around the world fighting for your life.

If there is one thing I can promise you and your family, is that your death will not be in vain. Your departure from this temporary world we call Earth has emboldened and strengthened our fight to not only seek justice for the 140 children who remain on death row in Iran, but the 70 million captive citizens of Iran who remain held hostage under a regime that stifles voices, represses rights and executes the most vulnerable.

The Islamic Republic of Iran must be held accountable for their violations against humanity. Clerical Judge Javid Nia, who approved your execution will be held into account one day.

In Delara’s case, Iran has breached many laws.

Injustice # 1

Iran is state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Charter of the Rights of the Child which forbids the execution of those who have committed an offence before the age of 18. Delara was 17 years old when she was allegedly charged of murder. To the bitter end she maintained her innocence.



Injustice #2

The initial verdict that was issued, was based on a confession from a child that did not know her rights, and was not made aware of the consequences for taking the blame for a crime she says she did not commit.



Injustice #3

Medical examination of Mahin’s body in an autopsy suggested that the crime was committed by a right-handed person. Delara was left handed. If a new trial was accorded to present this new evidence, the death penalty verdict could have been reversed. Delara’s lawyer Abdolsamad Khoramshahi has tried for years to obtain a new trial and carry out a re-enactment of the crime in court, with no success. He is also convinced that due to Delara’s small frame and gentle nature, it was an impossibility for her to have committed the offence. A partnering lawyer who followed the case, Mohammad Mostafaei, said “I swear she is innocent”.



Injustice #4

Whereas the head of Judiciary Ayatollah Shahroudi accorded a 2 month stay of execution in order for the families to try and negotiate a pardon, Delara was executed in less than 10 days from this order.



Injustice #5

Under Iran’s Penal Code it states that the family and lawyer of the accused are to be given 48 hours prior notice before execution. No such warning had been given. Instead Delara was executed in secret, like Reza Hejazi and Behnam Zare, with no mother, father or sister to be with her in her last frightening moments or to hear her final words.



Injustice #6:

In cases of “ghesas” crimes, the decision whether or not to execute the accused rests with the relatives of the victim. What kind of Justice system allows the biased opinion of the family who has lost a family member to decide ones fate?



Around this time two years ago, Delara wrote this beautiful letter to me: http://scenews.blog.com/1772243/

It was touching to read her words to all those who have helped her:

“Say hello to my true loving friends. Every night during my prayers I pray for all the people of this large and vast house. I pray that one day everyone becomes a lover and we all be the guests of Lord's vast feast.

I don't know if I will meet you my dear ones or we must leave the meeting to the unseen world.
Anyway, Delara is not alone, Delaras are trapped in prisons and in need of God's help and in need of defenders of human right and humanity!!!””

One day we will meet Delara in heaven and she will have thanked us for continuing with the good fight.

Delara, it is so sad and unfortunate that you had to depart like this without your family being able to say goodbye

My most heartfelt condolences go out to your family Delara. The loss of a child is painful enough. The loss of a child under unjust circumstances is a tragedy….a tragedy that could have been avoided.

Stop Child Executions will be launching a full report on executions of juvenile offenders in Iran on June 17th in the UK Parliament via the Foreign Policy Center and I will also be addressing the issue in front of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva at that time.

To see Delara and her family in the documentary we made about her a year and a half ago, please visit:

http://scenews.blog.com/4886013/

To see her beautiful but haunting paintings she drew in prison, visit :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IprOXGTe0

Delara lives on



Nazanin

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

International Human Rights Activist

President and Co Founder of
Stop Child Executions
http://www.stopchildexecutions.com





Roxanne Ganji wrote:

Beautiful letter by Nazanin who never stops her efforts. We are lucky to have people like Nazanin fighting for the rights of the people of Iran. I wish there were more like her to amplify the cries of our compatriots even louder. Thank you Nazanin Jan for all you do. I feel the frustration and pain you feel and can't even imagine what Delara's parent are going through today. It is a dark day for Iran when not enough of us stand up for our rights and the rights of our children. She could have been our own child. Would we not expect our compatriots to fight for the rights of our child? Then why the silence and indifference? Its time for us to wake up and demand what rightfully belongs to us. "OUR HUMAN RIGHTS". Roxanne Click here: Nazanin Afshin-Jam's thoughts on

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