Plea of the Families of 26 Activists Who Have Been Sentenced to Death!
To Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations
Secretary General of the United Nations,
Receive the painful letter of these families whose children have been in exile, jail, and away from family and home, have been deprived of their legal rights, and have been in solitary confinement for long periods of time. They either have not had a defense attorney, or their attorneys have not had the permission to speak, or they have faced baseless charges of “moharebeh” (war against God or state), for which there are 4 kinds of punishments: execution, cutting hand and leg in opposite directions, exile, and prison. These prisoners are given jail terms, execution sentences, and exile at the same time. Some of these prisoners have been wounded by bullets and have lost some parts of their body.
The names of these 26 people are as follows:
Hamed Ahmadi, Jamshid Dehqani, Jahangir Dehqani, Kamal Mollaii, Seddiq Mohammadi, Hadi Hoseini, Loqman Moradi, Zanyar Moradi, Shahram Ahmadi (whose brother, Bahram Ahmadi, has been executed 27.12.2012, while he was under 18 at the time of arrest), Mohammad Yavar Rahimi (whose brother, Asqar Rahimi, was executed 27.12.2012), Mukhtar Rahimi, Bahman Rahimi, Poorya Mohammadi, Mohammad Qaribi, Farzad Shah Nazari, Poorya Qaderifard, Jamal Seyed Moosavi, and Loqman Amini.
These people are serving their jail terms in Rajai Shahr and Qezel Hesar prisons, and because their elderly mothers are not able to go for visits, the authorities will not even transfer them to their own cities. A few days ago, when a 67-year-old mother of one of these prisoners went to visit Shahram and Bahram Ahmadi, she had no news that her son Bahram was executed on 27 December 2012, and had been buried by the authorities. When officers of the visiting room said only Shahram was there and that they had executed Bahram 6 months ago, she got a stroke and for the last 12 days has been under intensive care, and doctors have said that she might lose her memory because of the shock she has received. This is a small fraction of pain and suffering of the families of these prisoners. We need to mention that we have written a few letters to Mr. Ahmadinajad and the leader of Iran, but gotten no results.
We ask you to write letters to the Iranian authorities, especially to the new president who has promised to free political prisoners, and ask them to cancel the death sentence of these prisoners and free them as soon as possible, so that they can come back to their families.
Sincerely
Families of 26 Prisoners Facing Execution
15 July 2013
Also published by the International Committee against Execution, ICAE 15.07.2013
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