His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of United Nations
The United Nations
New York, N.Y 10017
Dec. 31st, 2009
Your Excellency:
I am writing to share with you my profound concerns about the continuing, serious and flagrant human rights violations of my compatriots by the clerical regime in Iran, and respectfully request you adopt urgent and appropriate measures to put an immediate end to such violations.
The shameful record of the clerical government’s endless violations of all the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - to which Iran has long been a signatory - needs no recounting. Since its inception thirty years ago, the clerical regime of Iran has been repeatedly cited for human rights violations by a host of international human rights agencies and organizations, including United Nations’ Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, United Nations’ Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and The International Federation for the Defense of Human Rights.
Since the fraudulent presidential election in June, the leaders of the clerical regime of Iran have opted for the use of deadly force to prevent the Iranian citizens from exercising their freedoms of assembly and speech. I was deeply grateful for your prompt expression of concern and dismay on 22 June 2009, particularly “the use of force against civilians.” However, the clerical regime in Iran chose to ignore your call on them “to respect fundamental civil and political rights, especially the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of information” of the Iranian citizens.
According to official reports the number of those killed, injured and arrested in Iran so far is over two thousand. Many of the unjustly arrested are held incommunicado and have been subjected to unspeakable acts of torture. Sadly, the clerical government has prevented many families of those killed from receiving and burying the bodies of their slain relatives in order to obscure the cause of death. More alarmingly, the clerical government is preparing to execute a number of the detainees who are suspected of either leading or merely participating in recent demonstrations.
Your Excellency,
I cannot overstate the urgency of the matter. Widespread and increasing violations of the human rights of millions of my compatriots in Iran have reached catastrophic proportions. The continuation of the current state of affairs in Iran is potentially a serious threat to the peace and security of the region if not the international community as a whole. The situation seems particularly urgent if one also considers the insistence of the clerical government to continue to pursue its nuclear ambitions in defiance of its binding international obligations and the repeated recommendations of the Security Council of the United Nations.
I consider it my solemn responsibility to respectfully urge Your Excellency to use your singular authority to take the necessary measures to bring to a halt the intolerable and increasingly dangerous march of events in Iran. To this end, I sincerely suggest the adoption of the following measures:
· Call upon the clerical regime of Iran to immediately release all those who have been arrested and kept in detention on the basis of their participation in, or mere expression of support for, the post-election demonstrations. Pending the release of the detainees, the authorities must allow the detainees to have access to legal counsel and normal visiting rights;
· Appoint a special rapporteur to travel to Iran in order to prepare a firsthand report on the nature and dimensions of the recent violations of human rights committed by security agents, judicial authorities, and members of the revolutionary guards and the armed militia of the clerical regime in Iran;
· Inform the Human Rights Commission and the General Assembly of the United Nations of the serious nature of ongoing violations of human rights in Iran; and
· Urge the member states of the United Nations to recall their respective ambassadors from Iran as a minimal but clear indication of their support for the rights and freedom of the Iranian citizens and their serious objections to widespread and flagrant violations of these rights by the clerical regime in Iran.
I, along with my aggrieved compatriots in Iran, and all free and freedom loving peoples of the world, would be most grateful if Your Excellency take up this matter with the urgency required.
Please accept the expression of my deep esteem and gratitude,
Reza Pahlavi
Friday, January 1, 2010
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Images of injured bodies of protester in Iran 27 December
Police says they haven't shooted to people but this pictures show they did.
Iranian Police !!!
In this clip you see Iranian police car goes over on a protester three times and kills him
Police says this car was stolen !
Police says this car was stolen !
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
In Spite of Doctor’s Recommendation, Abdollah Momeni Cannot Leave Prison
lthough a prison physician has said that Abdollah Momeni needs proper medical care outside of prison, he is still being held in jail.
Mr. Momeni is the spokesman for Advar Tahkim Vahdat (Office of Strengthening Unity) and he is suffering from kidney problems. During his detention, Mr. Momeni has also contracted a skin disease and, according to the prison doctor’s recommendation, Mr. Momeni must seek medical care outside of the prison.
Mr. Momeni’s wife made the announcement, saying: “As a result of improper sanitary conditions inside the jail, Mr. Momeni has contracted some form of skin disease, and the prison lacks the proper facilities to treat the disease.”
Mr. Momeni’s wife, Ms. Fatemeh Adinehvand, said her husband’s condition is worrisome, and added: “The treating physician inside the jail has ordered his medical treatment outside of the jail, yet he is being held back.”
Mr. Momeni is chairman of the Iranian Student Organization, and his wife advised Evin Prison authorities regarding her husband’s health and well-being.
Source: Advar News
Arrests continue following Iran’s bloody Sunday as the world condemns the Iranian regime
According to the official Iranian media more than 300 people were arrested on Sunday in Tehran. Quoting Tehran’s chief of the security forces, the officil Iranian TV reported that 8 people were killed under Sunday’s demonstrations in Tehran. One of those killed was Ali Habibi Mousavi Khameneh, the nephew of the summer’s presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi who was shot dead. According to the reports received by Iran Human Rights the bodies of Sunday’s victims were abducted during the night by the authorities.
Later on Monday, IRNA reported that the bodies were retained in order to investigate causes of the Sunday’s killings. IRNA’s report didn’t quote any official organs.
Human rights groups such as "Human Rights Activists in Iran" reported that more than 500 people who were arrested have been transferred to the Evin prison on Monday.
There are separate reports about arrest of several Civil rights activists and known politicians such as the human rights defender Emad Baghi, the journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, the opposition politician Ebrahim Yazdi and several of Mr. Mousavi’s advisors. According to some reports Noushin Ebadi (sister of the Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi) is also among those arrested.
Iran Human Rights has warned about danger of torture and execution of hundreds of detainees. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of Iran Human rights, has urged UN to send an urgent fact finding commission to Iran, in order to prevent repetition of the summer’s torture, rape and killings in the Iranian detention centers.
International condemnation of the Iranian regime and support of the democratic movement :
The international community has condemned Iranian regime’s use of violence against the protestors and several counries have expressed support for the democratic demands of the Iranian people.
US President Barak Obama said: "The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens."
"The United States stands with those who seek their universal rights," he said, adding that his government wanted to see all those "unjustly detained" freed immediately.
EU presidency and leaders of several European countries such as UK, France, Germany and Norway have condemned Iranian regime’s use of violence and asked for immediate release of the detainees.
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