We have been asked by the families of the 26 death row prisoners to send this letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to help their loved ones in prison.
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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
Published by the International Committee against Execution
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