Countless numbers of supporters of the imprisoned pro-democratic cleric,
Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi, attended the funeral ceremony of his late brother, Seyed
Hassan Kazemeini Boroujerdi. After the ceremony,
eight of Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi’s followers were summoned to the Special
Court for Clergy for taking part in the ceremony.
According to the report of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran, although
the eight supporters of Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi had been previously summoned
for a third time to the Special Cleric's Court in Tehran, they were summoned to
the Court for the fourth time via telephone on Monday, January 7, 2013.
Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran strongly condemned the
summons.
The summons requests the appearance of the following supporters: Roya
Aragi, Maryam Azimi, Narges Ghaffarzadeh, Tayebeh Hosseini, Zahra Abdullah
Vand, Zohreh Sharifi, Maryam Ghasemi, and Foroghe Hematya. Several of the
summoned supporters are now living outside of Iran and weren’t in attendance at
the funeral.
Because Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi is a spiritual leader and prisoner of
conscience, support for his brother’s funeral was widespread. During the
funeral procession, family and relatives of Mr. Boroujerdi, and the other participants
were threatened and abused, and photographs and videos of them were taken by
security and intelligence forces.
For many years Mr Boroujerdi has attempted to reveal the essential nature
of Iran’s religious regime through peaceful means. He wants to show the dramatic
differences between the genuine religious teachings of Islam and that the
performance of religious theocracy in Iran is not followed by the religious
community and the citizens of the country. Because of the uncompromising
religious government, Mr Boroujerdi and his supporters regularly experience the
rage and wrath of the theocracy.
Conflict between the secular ideas of the cleric and the religious
tyranny of the Supreme Leader finally reached the point where security and
intelligence forces attempted, at every opportunity, to threaten, harass, and
even physically eliminate Mr. Boroujerdi and his followers.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international
authorities have demanded referral of the crimes dossier of Supreme Leader, Ali
Khamenei, for Crimes Against Humanity to
international judicial bodies.
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