We have been asked by Khaled Hardani's family to send their letter to Ban Ki-moon
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Khaled Hardani's family's appeal to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations
Your Excellency,
Respectful greetings from a family whose only breadwinner endured more than 14 years of incarceration, maltreatment and torture and is now being held illegally in Rajai Shahr Prison. Throughout these painful years he has lost hope. His future is uncertain and he lives with the daily threat of death and the frequent reality of torture and physical mistreatment. Numerous false accusations were made against him, so that he now has no way to defend his legal rights. He has been severely mistreated several times by the secret police. During these long years he has not had a single day's leave, not even to attend his mother's funeral after she died of grief because of being parted from him.
The charge laid against him by a representative of the Tehran prosecution office was of endangering public safety aboard an aircraft. Because of prevailing lawlessness, arbitrary police officers engineered his death sentence after he had refused to take part in staged television interviews. Although his lawyer deemed this judgement political and requested an extraordinary review on grounds of incompatibility with Islamic jurisprudence, in conformity with article 8 of the Law Establishing the General and Revolutionary Courts, following an illegal order by the same organisations he was summoned for implementation of his death sentence in late 2004 - early 2005. Due to strong protests from human-rights organisations and from the people at large, Ayatollah Shahrudi, then head of the Judiciary, issued a stay of execution.
Such was the influence and power of these arbitrary and lawless police forces in judicial matters that despite the protests of the head of the Judiciary and the chief prosecutor, although they retreated from insisting on the death penalty, they nevertheless managed to have him cruelly sentenced to life in prison. This is despite the fact that in issuing the formal charges, the representative of the prosecution office had stated - and this was recorded on a tape which exists in the Judiciary's archives - that according to section 5 of the one-article Aviation Sabotage Law, the defendant should go free. Instead, the stubborn insistence of these lawless and callous officers meant that this kind and compassionate father was denied his legal right to freedom.
Your Excellency, in view of the torments that Khaled and his family have been enduring these fourteen years, we urgently implore you, in your capacity as a defender of those who suffer, to demand the unconditional release of Khaled Hardani, and to request that the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran put an end to all this lawlessness and arbitrary behaviour, so as to relieve a needy family of their anguish and fulfil the moral and legal mandate of the United Nations.
With warmest and most grateful salutations,
The family of Khaled Hardani
Khaled Hardani's family's appeal to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations
Your Excellency,
Respectful greetings from a family whose only breadwinner endured more than 14 years of incarceration, maltreatment and torture and is now being held illegally in Rajai Shahr Prison. Throughout these painful years he has lost hope. His future is uncertain and he lives with the daily threat of death and the frequent reality of torture and physical mistreatment. Numerous false accusations were made against him, so that he now has no way to defend his legal rights. He has been severely mistreated several times by the secret police. During these long years he has not had a single day's leave, not even to attend his mother's funeral after she died of grief because of being parted from him.
The charge laid against him by a representative of the Tehran prosecution office was of endangering public safety aboard an aircraft. Because of prevailing lawlessness, arbitrary police officers engineered his death sentence after he had refused to take part in staged television interviews. Although his lawyer deemed this judgement political and requested an extraordinary review on grounds of incompatibility with Islamic jurisprudence, in conformity with article 8 of the Law Establishing the General and Revolutionary Courts, following an illegal order by the same organisations he was summoned for implementation of his death sentence in late 2004 - early 2005. Due to strong protests from human-rights organisations and from the people at large, Ayatollah Shahrudi, then head of the Judiciary, issued a stay of execution.
Such was the influence and power of these arbitrary and lawless police forces in judicial matters that despite the protests of the head of the Judiciary and the chief prosecutor, although they retreated from insisting on the death penalty, they nevertheless managed to have him cruelly sentenced to life in prison. This is despite the fact that in issuing the formal charges, the representative of the prosecution office had stated - and this was recorded on a tape which exists in the Judiciary's archives - that according to section 5 of the one-article Aviation Sabotage Law, the defendant should go free. Instead, the stubborn insistence of these lawless and callous officers meant that this kind and compassionate father was denied his legal right to freedom.
Your Excellency, in view of the torments that Khaled and his family have been enduring these fourteen years, we urgently implore you, in your capacity as a defender of those who suffer, to demand the unconditional release of Khaled Hardani, and to request that the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran put an end to all this lawlessness and arbitrary behaviour, so as to relieve a needy family of their anguish and fulfil the moral and legal mandate of the United Nations.
With warmest and most grateful salutations,
The family of Khaled Hardani
15 July 2013
Published by the International Committee against Execution
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