Memories and Screeds of Mr. Boroujerdi on Human Rights Day,10 December 2018:
Following the first
and second jail period during 1990’s and 2001, I became arrested and imprisoned
again in 2006. I was not expecting that under the rule of a religious state, a
religious promoter become repressed, the man who is away from politics and
political propaganda and has no any political challenge with the rulers.
Actually after my
second jail in 2001, I was just gathering the poor, suffered and deprived
people to sympathize with them and retrieve them morally, psychologically and
emotionally.
I was inviting the ones who were suffering
from economic, political, social and belief issues people to participate in
monthly assemblies to share our condolence and concerns.
These assemblies
grown up gradually to the extent that although those were not political
meetings, the Iranian regime could not tolerate. Due to the crowds of people
participating in such meetings, they were suspecting that such unique
assemblies probably should be led from abroad with a special target.
During the last assembly
on 29 June 2006 which was held in Keshvari stadium, the biggest indoor stadium
in Iran located in Mirdamad boulevard as, the population of participants was so
big to the extent that the entire stadium plus the surrounding streets and from
Ketabi to Kazemi squares were full of people. Even the local residents were
thinking likely a high level authority should have a speech there.
After that event, the
Iranian intelligence and security forces strongly attacked to suppress us on 30
July 2006. However, my followers and many of people got informed and came to my
residence area to support me. Actually my house was located in Enghelab square
at the center of Tehran, so the followers could make a quick action to gather
and resist to the extent that general Talaei, the chief of Tehran police was
forced to come and directly interfere for controlling the situation. He was trying
to arrest and bring me to the Evin prison, but the people were hardly preventing.
The police agents were transferring me from one car to another, but the people were
breaking the cars and tearing the tires. As this happened for three times,
general Talaei called the government authorities, so they asked him to stop the
operation.
Thereafter, they
blocked all of the surrounding area to put us under siege and force us to give
up. This situation prolonged to more than seventy days during which many of
young followers and friends were coming there to act as guards for controlling
the streets and the alley around my house. Even they were sleeping and eating
in the street.
During this period,
I was continuously interviewing with the international medias and human rights
authorities, so that my house was converted to a basement, or a team house
according to the regime, to oppose the religious state of Iran. Therefore, they
could not tolerate and they attacked us again with more security forces on 7
October 2006, night time. Before the attack, General Talaei and General Sajedi
Nia, came to my house and requested me to convince the people to go and in
return they swore to push their forces and agents back.
It is necessary to mention
that the whole streets and areas around the Enghelab square were full of the Basij
militia plus revolutionary guards and security forces. In addition, since that
was the month of Ramadhan, one of the regimes dependents named Mansour Arazi
had asked the prayers in Arg mosque “to stop praying, and instead attack to
Boroujerdi who is a pagan”!
Anyway, the chief
of security forces deceived us and I asked all of the followers to leave,
because I never wanted any damage to them, although they were ready to become
killed for their beliefs.
When most of people
left and about 1000 of them remained the regime forces betrayed and began to
attack and beat the rest of my followers by batons and shot the people by
tearing gases and bullets. So some became killed and the rest including me got
injured and arrested. Finally, they transferred us to Evin prison.
Now after 12 years,
the question is why this events have happened? If it was the time of Shah, the
last king prior to revolution, and we would organize such prayer ceremonies in
that time to collect the poor and deprived people to sympathize and to share
our condolence with them, would he interfere? Even probably he would provide us
space for prayers with financial and Media support.
That is why I say
the religious dictatorship is the worst tyrannical regime, because they
attacked us so harshly to the extent that even my granddaughter with six-month
age was beaten and my old mother was tortured and killed. I was also tortured
for six months during which no one had any news about my situation. My physical
tortures were so hard to the extent that currently I am suffering from the
consequent effects. My feet are paralyzed, and because of suffering from brain
disease, I have no control on my hands and my legs which are continuously vibrating.
I am blind after being tortured in prison for 11 years.
Many of political
prisoners were being released few months after their arrest, but I was kept in
jail because of continuation of my campaign from inside the prison and due to the
statements I was publishing not only against the intelligence agents or
revolutionary guards, but more importantly for criticizing the religious
dictatorship.
The ones who are
sitting abroad claiming to be the defenders of human rights, have shown that practically
they never advocate the oppressed people. Instead, they have tried to silence
and restrict us and boycotted my representatives abroad. As a result, I am
currently detested of politics, the political approach which the opposition of
the Iranian regime are following. The dirty politics in which the high level of
this opposition have committed to block me in collaboration with the
dictatorship regime. So I am totally unmotivated and although I am in house
arrest, I never want to interfere in politics. I never want to get power or
participate in any government, I just want to pass the last days of my life
under this imposed siege.
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