Be Our Voice Against Executions in Iran

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Prepared by ACI Human Rights Committee +447960945970 [email protected]

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AssociationdesChercheursIraniens

Be Our Voice!London, 3 February 2010 - On 27 January 2010, a young man was executed in Iran. At thetime of his alleged offence he could not have been more than 16 or 17. He is now amongjuvenile offender convicted and executed on political charges. He made his confession underduress while watching his pregnant sister being threatened by security forces. She later lostthe baby. Arrested two months before the elections, he confessed to organising events afterthe June 2009 elections because he was promised with a light sentence if he accepted all thecharges. He practiced his lines in his small cell every night before attending the show trials ofsummer 2009 - trials where his defence lawyer was threatened with arrest if she insisted ondefending him. Arash Rahmanipour was only twenty years old when he was executed.

Dancing the dance death at the end of the rope next to Arash Rahmanipour was MohammadReza Ali Zamani. He met with the same fate. Also arrested two months before the elections,his cellmate wrote, Mohammad Reza would ask me about events following the electionsbecause he had no idea what was going on outside the prison walls. His cellmate added thatMohammad Reza was taken out of the cell everyday to practice his lines for the show trials.Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani was also promised a light sentence if he performed in court.Against the Islamic Republics internal laws and procedural codes, the two men were executedwhile their conviction of enmity against God was undergoing the appeals process and theirlawyers and families were not notified of the executions. They found out the tragic newsthrough the media. The world condemned the two executions.

We, the undersigned, express grave concern at the ongoing violation of rights for all thosedetained before and after the June 2009 elections, the increase in the use of violence againstprotesters and prisoners, the immediate risk of execution for nine people with confirmed deathsentences and of another five death sentences being issued subsequent to the present showtrials. While condemning the death penalty as a punishment irrespective of whether it isaccording to Sharia law or otherwise, we express our grave concern for the very real threat ofharm and execution facing the seven detained members of the Committee of Human RightsReporters in particular Kouhyar Goodarzi and Mehrdad Rahimi, two human rights activists whohave also been charged with enmity against God. We also express serious concern over thefate of the detained members of the Bahai community and the imminent threat of execution.

We, the undersigned, believe that all Iranians without distinction of any kind, such asrace, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,property, birth or other status are equal and for this reason we condemn all cases ofexecution throughout Iran and commit to full and mutual support for each other

We, the undersigned, invite all individuals, groups, organizations, parties and human rightsactivists and organizations to join us in condemning the use of the ultimate violence, the deathpenalty, in Iran. With your help we can employ global networks and opportunities in order tosupport the persecuted in Iran and end executions that are taking place all over Iran today.

May we be the voice of the voiceless in Iran who are the helpless victims ofsystematic and escalating state sponsored violence


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Initial Signatories (in alphabetical order)More signatures including that of many Iranian human rights activists, journalists andacademics can be viewed at this gopetition.com address.

Add your support: http://gopetition.com/online/32775/signatures-page10.html

Groups/Parties/OrganisationsAhwaz Human Rights OrganisationAkhbar RoozAssociation des Chercheurs Iraniens - ACIBaluchistan Peoples Front (BPF)Baluchistan Peoples Party (BPP)Centre for Baluchistan StudiesCommittee of Human Rights ReportersDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)International Coalition Against Torture InCATIran Communist Party

Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America - IHRAGKomala Party Iranian KurdistanKomala Party of KurdistanKurdistan Democratic PartyOrganisation of Kurmanj PeoplePartners for RightsReporters and Human Rights Activists in Iran

IndividualsAsghar Abdi ResearcherKarim Abdian Ahwaz Human Rights OrganisationFerydoon Ahmadi Political Activist

Nastaran Amjadi Human Rights ActivistJalil Azadikhah Journalist, Komala Party of KurdistanNahid Bahmani Central Committee Member: Komala Party Iranian KurdistanRahim Bandoui Executive Bureau: Baluchistan Peoples Party (BPP)Niloofar Bayzaie Writer and DirectorNasser Bolidai Spokesperson: Baluchistan Peoples Party (BPP)Haydeh Daragahi Human Rights ActivistAbdul-Sattar Doshoki The Centre For Baluchistan StudiesSoray Fallah Worlds Women for LifeNavid Fazel ACIJamsheed Farooghi Head of Persian Service Deutsche WelleKhaled Hassanpour Kurdistan Democratic Party

Nasser Hesami Head of Asosat TV Komala Party of KurdistanReza Hosseinubor Baluchistan Peoples Front (BPF)Shahu Hosseini International Representative: Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)Omar Ilkhanizadeh Chairman Komala Party of KurdistanRahman Javanmardi Human Rights ActivistReza Kaabi Member of Central Committee Komala Party of KurdistanBehzad Karimi Political ActivistRoya Kashefi Head of Human Rights Committee - ACINarges Kermanshahi Womens Voice - CanadaMitra Khalatbari JournalistHossein Ladjevardi President - ACISirus Malakooti ACI


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Mohamad Mesri Komala Party - Iranian KurdistanRezvan Moghadam Womens Rights ActivistVerya Mohamadi Komala Party of KurdistanAbdullah Mohtadi Chairman Komala Party Iranian KurdistanHamila Nisgilli Member of Central Committee Rahe KargarShiva Nojo Peace ActivistJamileh Rahimi Member of Central Committee Komala Party of KurdistanBahram Rahmani Committee Member: Iranian Writers Association (in Exile)Rahim Rashidi JournalistJahanbakhsh Rostami Kurdish-German Cultural CentreSetareh Sabety Journalist / WriterZia Sadrolashrafi Spokesperson Congress of Nationalities of Federal IranMojtaba Samienejad Reporters and Human Rights Activists in IranAsad Seif WriterRouhi Shafii Human Rights Activist / WriterElahe Sharifpour-Hicks Partners for RightsAfrasiab Shekofteh Organisation of Kurmanj People

Foad Taban Chief Editor, Akhbar RoozNosrat Teimourzadeh Central Committee of Komalah and Communist Party of IranBehnam Vafaseresht Human Rights ActivistTonia Valioghli Committee in Solidarity with Mourning Mothers of IranMina Zarin Human Rights Activist


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List of Prisoners on Death Row in IranVerified 1 February 2010

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Kurdish Pr isoners on Death Row

1.Zeinab Jalalian MakouKermanshah Prison

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2.Shirkoe Moarefi BanehSaghez Prison

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3.Habib Latifi SanandajSanandaj Prison

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4. Sami Hosseini SalmasUroumieh Prison - .

5.Jamal Mohammadi SalmasUroumieh Prison

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6.Rostam Arkia

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7.Rashid Akhkandi

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8.Hossein Khezri UroumiehUroumieh Prison

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9.Farzad Kamangar KamyaranEvin Prison

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10.Ali Heydarian SanandajEvin Prison

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11.Farhad Vakili SanandajEvin Prison

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12.Mostafa Salimi SaghezSaghez Prison

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13. Anvar Rostami .


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14.Iraj Mohamadi MiyandoabUroumieh Prison

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15.Mohamad Amin Agooshi Piranshahr UroumiehPrison

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16.Ahmad Pouladkhani PiranshahrUroumieh Prison

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17. Hassan Taleie Makou - .

18.Shirin Alam Houie MakouEvin Prison

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19.Mohammad Amin Abdullahi Mirabad Boukan

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20.Ghader Mohammadzadeh

Mirabad Boukan

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21.Aziz Mohamadzadeh BanehSaghez Prison

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O n D e a t h R o w i n K h u z e s t a n

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Ali Saedi 25 years old AhvazIntelligence DetentionCentre

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*Walid Neysi (Mahavi) 23 years old - AhvazIntelligence DetentionCentre*

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*Majed Faradipour(Sawari)26 years old - AhvazIntelligence DetentionCentre

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*Doayer Mahawi 50years oldAhvaz IntelligenceDetention Centre

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*Maher Mahawi 21years oldAhvaz IntelligenceDetention Centre

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*Ahmad Saedi 28 yearsoldAhvaz IntelligenceDetention Centre

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*Yousef Loftehpour (Torfi)

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* On 1 February 2010, ACI was advised by Amnesty International UK that these death sentenceshave been reduced to four year prison terms. Ali Saedi is still on death row.

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Baluchi Pr isoners on Death Row

29.Abdolrahman Narouie(son of Khaleghdad)

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30.Abed Gahramzehi

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31.Abdolhamid Rigi(son of Azad Rigi)

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32.Abdoljalil Rigi(son of Jaan Mohammad)

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33.Nasser Shahbakhsh

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34.Mahmoud Rigi (son ofNazar)

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Prisoners on Death Row in Tehran

According to government news agencies four more people are on death roTheir identities have not been determined yet

35.Ali Saremi

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36.Ayoub Porkar

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Ahmad Karimi

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38.Nasser Abdolhosseini

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39.Reza Khademi

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40. Identity unknown .




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