Ayatollah Boroujerdi Warns Of Plot Against Political Prisoners

HARANA : Tehran, 1th November 2010-- In a message released today, Ayatollah Boroujerdi warned, “Now that Iran’s theocratic leaders have lost all domestic and international credibility, they have devised plots to execute prisoners in every possible way. As neither international observers nor even local inspectors are allowed to visit prisons, threats and assassination attempts against jailed dissidents are now on the increase. “

Pointing out the shameful plight of a number of political prisoners, including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Bahareh Hedayat, Shabnam Madadzadeh, HeshmAt allah Tabarzadi, Eisa saharkhiz, Abdullah Momeni, Mansur Osanloo, Ahmad zeyd Abadi, Arjang Davoodi, Mohammad Oliyaeifar, Mohammad Sedigh Kabudvand, Majid Tavakoli, Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, Behrouz Javid Tehrani, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abolfazl Abedini, keyvan Samimi, Mohammad Ali Sarami and the others, the jailed dissident stated, "I appeal to all democratically minded individuals and human rights organizations to respond faster and more decisively to the deplorable plight of those now being held under physically and psychologically torturous conditions in prisons for refusing to submit to the whims of the so-called supreme leader and his authoritarian regime.”

Ayatollah Boroujerdi ended his message with a plea to the international community.  He stated, "I of the notorious Evin prison, along with a plethora of oppressed Iranians who oppose theocracy and vie to establish peaceful relations with the world thank President Barack Obama, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain and those European officials who monitor  human rights violations in Iran and urge all influential world leaders to protect freedom and human rights as a top priority in their international endeavours and obligations irrespective of commercial and political considerations."