The protest letter of Barbara Lochbiler EU Human Rights Commission member

To: high ranking officials of Iran regime
After that Iran government prevented from the trip of European mission under the supervision of Ms Barbara Lochbiler to Iran during Jan 7-11, 2010, German Green MEP Barbara Lochbiler EU Human Rights Commission member objected to the wholesale human rights violation in Iran via a letter on Jan 21, 2010.

It is necessary to mention that it was arranged that this EU parliament member would visit the families of political and ideological prisoners in Iran among them Mr. Boroujerdi’s family at the Lale hotel in Tehran on Jan 7 and 8.

Ms Lochbiler wrote in the letter:

Free Ayatollah Boroujerdi

By Rebecca Witonsky

An Iranian democrat friend of mine here in the USA and I were talking about how we both think the Islamic regime in Iran is trying to kill off Ayatollah Boroujerdi before the regime falls. The goal of this post is to draw attention to the horrific plight of Ayatollah Boroujerdi and to encourage all supporters of Iranian democracy to speak out for Ayatollah Boroujerdi.

Amnesty International France: Ayatollah Seyed Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi has been detained because of his peaceful religious beliefs!

Wednesday Feb 10, 2010
By Jean-Jules Docquir

Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Seyed Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi, is an ideological prisoner who has been detained because of his peaceful religious beliefs. According to the presented charges he is being kept in prison only for political considerations. He is even denied access to necessary medical cares for treatment of various diseases like Parkinson’s and etc which have threatened his life.

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Bahman 22 (Feb 11, 2010), the Manifestation of Iranians’ solidarity in and out of Iran

By a concerted and effective movement, our countrymen resident out of Iran ask for intervention of international organizations to stop the violation of civil freedoms and also unconditional release of political and ideological prisoners like liberal clergy Ayatollah Kazemeini Boroujerdi, from the prisons of Iran regime.

Iranian protesters in Europe and America, in Malas Man square in Toronto in Canada, Landon, Paris and etc expressed their advocacy of right demands and protests of Iranian people.

It is necessary to mention that it had been brought in the report of the Working  Group on Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s condition on May 29, 2009 that:

On 29 May 2009, the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group sent a joint urgent appeal to Iran concerning Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi.

According to new information received by the Working Group, Ayatollah Boroujerdi wrote

a letter to the Secretary-General requesting that international observers be sent to Iran, following which he was reportedly subjected to beatings.

The relevant link:

 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/13session/A.HRC.13.30_en.pdf

   

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The simultaneous presence of 72 civil institutions and organizations in front of the United Nations headquarts in Geneva in protest against human rights violation in Iran

Since Feb 15, 2010 until Feb 17, 2010, coincident with Human Rights council seventh universal periodic review, a group of Human Rights organizations and civil institutions in Europe, Canada and America is going to gather in front of the United Nations headquarts in Geneva at 9 AM up to 5 PM and to show their protest against the massive human rights violation in Iran during more than 3 decades of the Islamic Republic time and their support of the right and democratic demands of Iranian people. This group is supported by Amnesty international organization and the International Federation of Trade Unions and Student Union in Europe.
It is necessary to say that Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s followers are supporting this protest gathering too.

Using new cameras and phone interruption in Evin prison

Tuesday Feb 9, 2010 some new cameras were used in and out of different sections of Evin prison. According to the reports received, the prison authorities used some cameras even in the bathrooms and WC of the special section for clergy! This hideous action led to discontent and severe protest of the prisoners.

The prison authorities have presented no reason for their actions, but because of the intensification of public protests, Vilayat-e-Faqih regime is scared of people massive attack to the prisons to release their children and relatives, so they have intensified security systems by using cameras.

Also the phone communication in Evin prison especially in clergy section has completely been stopped since Feb 10, in order to prevent from spreading news by prisoners.

SOBHANI: Baha'is on trial

America's Iran policy must include religious freedom

washingtontimes

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

S. Rob Sobhani

...But the Baha'is are not the only ones facing persecution in Iran. Since the establishment of the Islamic republic, the regime has acted as an equal-opportunity persecutor, arresting and violating the basic rights of Christians, Jews, Sunni Muslims, ethnic minorities, students, human rights activists and journalists, to name a few. While the human rights violations that intensified during the Islamic revolution in 1979 subsided somewhat in the 1990s, they have spiked since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies in the Revolutionary Guards stole the election in 2009. Even Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi - outspoken in his opposition to the Islamic republic and an advocate of the separation of Islam from politics - has been arrested and held in solitary confinement...

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Know more about one of the appalling sections of Evin prison!

The special section for clergy in Evin prison contains two parts and is directly controlled by the Special Court for Clergy and Ministry of Information. This section is run under some particular controls and limitations as not only international observers don’t have permission to survey it but the authorities of the government and control and judicial systems don’t too.

Ayatollah Boroujerdi is exposed to silent tortures

Unusual increasing in the number of prisoners and the lack of enough space for their settlement in Evin prison has caused many acute health and other problems and this matter has brought nervous and mental tortures for the prisoners.

Some problems in the prison like the lack of hot water to take a bath has occasioned Mr. Boroujerdi’s severe bone pains as the pains from lash and cable is much tolerable than taking bath with cold water in the cold winter of Evin!

A look at the 17th statement of Mr. Mousavi and what should be done

...If we are supposed to have religious views amongst us within this round it should be people like ayatollah Borojerdi Whom is imprisoned by the government now whom is much closer to the secular movement rather than the pro-Khomeini ayatollahs’ whom stand for the principles and ideas as their beloved Imam.

Ayatollah Borojerdi has the courage to stand up for a non-political Islam and the separation of religion and government, for this reason this executioner regime has incarcerated him.

The ridiculous show of regime to torture Ayatollah Boroujerdi

This morning Jan 13, 2010, government officials beat and violated Mr. Boroujerdi who is suffering from physical weakness and acute heart problem once again, by making a forged fight. On the track of this action, Mr. Boroujerdi sent a letter to Mr. Salimi, the public prosecutor of Special Court for clergy, by the help of prison authorities and letter announced that he will go on hunger strike if this condition doesn’t be considered immediately. In spite of the end of his period condemnation, this political and ideological prisoner is being kept in a very bad food and health condition with no hot water in an appalling cell underground.
Arranging forged fights is one of the invisible and smart methods in Iran prisons to ruin or attempt up on the life of the well-known opponents of the government. Before this event in the last winter in Yazd Central prison the government acting had hurt Mr. Boroujerdi by forged fights too.

Increasing in detentions and intensification of crisis in regime prisons

According to the report received from Evin prison, Mr. Boroujerdi’s limited phone communications has been stopped since Thursday Dec 31, 2009. The relevant authorities have presented nothing on this matter.