Request for sending an international, non-governmental committee to prosecute human right situation in Iran

December 10 2008

Request for sending an international, non-governmental

Group to Investigate human right situation in Iran

Translation of the request of a grou= p of Iranian human right activist’s organizations on the occasion of Decem= ber the 10^th, the international human right’s day, including a short report of human right situation in Iran.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Navanethem Pillay!=

Human Righ= ts Defenders' International Committee!

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Iranian Governmental authorities ha= ve always claimed that human right is respected in Iran and they have organized = their propaganda based on such claim. In spite of this pretension and according to various reports from human right organizations, like our reports, as one of these organizations who is monitoring human right in Iran consistently, human righ= t is violated in a Widespread, planned and systematic way.

According to the number of cases in the 2008 report (see the annexe), which ar= e gathered mainly of the authorised inside of Iran’s sources, human r= ight was violated more severely than last year, in different ways such as:<= /o:p>

Increased number of death penalties, execution sentences for people under 18, increas= ed number of students, political, social and cultural activists’ arrested and tried, submitting women in different areas, fired and unemployed workers and violating their premier rights, submitting minority religious and ethic= al groups and ….

Here by, we ask humbly from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Mrs Navanethem Pillay and Human Rights Defenders' Interna= tional Committees, to make a serious attempt on sending an international, non-governmental gr= oup to investigate human right situation in Iran, so subsequently ways on judgi= ng human right situation in Iran would become more even and making decisions f= or according acts would be possible.

We (as signed) ask all human right defenders to react against human right violation in Iran and execute what they have access to, for the favour of human right in Iran.

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Azerbaij= an’s Political Prisoners’ Defense Committee (ASMAK)<= /p>

Human Ri= ghts Reporters’ Committee

Iranian Human Rights Activists Groups = In EU and North America (Member of World Coalition against the death penalty)

Iranian Political Prisoners Association

Kurdista= n’s Human Right’s Defense Organization (RMMK)

Political Prisoners Defense Organization

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<= span lang=3DEN-CA style=3D'font-size:22.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times = New Roman","serif"'>Annexe : 2008 human right’s situation Report

Students:

· Arrested: 229

· Interrogated: 68

· Summoned to courts: 115

· Tried: 46

· Verdicts issued by court : 55

· Summoned to disciplinary committees: 287

· verdicts issued by disciplinary committees: 256

· university sent out: 13

· Beaten students:17<= /p>

· Threatening: 39

· Dissolving students’ formations:28

· Banned student’s magazines: 54

· Cancelled gatherings and ceremonies: 4

· Release on bail sentences: 50

Press and journalists:

· Summoned to courts: 71

· Arrested journalists: 22

· Interrogated: 6

· Tried: 37

· Written notices:183<= /p>

· Issued sentences: 38

· Banned books: 1

· Filtered sites: 34

· Deporting foreign reporters: 1

· Banned movies: 21

· Threatening: 5

· Battened journalists:5

· Closed press organizations: 44

Political, social and cultural activists:

· Summoned to courts: 186

· Interrogated: 20

· Arrested: 738

· Tried: 37

· Sentences issued by courts: 251

· Threatening: 23

· Released on bails: 105

· Barred from leaving the country:5

· Preventions on disposing ceremonies:33

· Attacks to social organisations: 1

· Preventions on political formations’ activity: 1

· Fired for having political activities: 37

· Rejected jurisdiction: 2200

· Closing cultural organisations:1

Labours:

· Not received payments and benefits: 66859

· Fired: 34800

· Arrested: 204

· Summoned to courts:62

· Sentences issued by courts:33

· Tried:12

· Died while working: 145

· Interrogated:8

· Attacks to labours’ gatherings: 12

Death penalty

· Executed: 250

· expected to be executed:247

· expected to be executed(political prisoners):17

· executed in public: 30

· under 18, while committing the crime(executed):8

· stoned to death(issued sentences):5

Women

· Summoned to courts: 18

· Tried:25

· Issued sentences:34

· Arrested: 16

· Interrogated: 8

· Barred from leaving the country: 8

· Filtered women related sites: 19=

· On strike in prison: 11

· Issued bail sentences: 3

Public arrestment and public murders:

· Public arrestment: 11201

· Murdering people:29

· Suspicious murders: 7

Political prisoners:

· On strike: 9

· Murdered under tortures: 2

· Incommunicado : 14

· Preventions on leave of absence for receiving treatment:14

· Beaten: 8

· Further interrogation: 6

· Death in prison:3

· Threatened: 5

· Handicapped under tortures: 3

· Missing: 3

· In prison without sentence :14

· Further trial:17

· Sentences issued during conviction period: 17

· Prevention on being released: 1

· Torture testimony: 32

Retaliation sentence

· Hand amputation: 12

· Leg amputation: 5

· Eye removing: 3

Minority religious groups

· Summoned to courts: 46

· Tried:4

· Issued sentences:14

· Arrested: 37

· Fired from work place: 8

· Threatened: 13

· Attacks to religious places: 4

· Bans on continuing education:11

· Cancelled worked permits: 1

· Freedom restrictions: 7