Amnesty International has launched an on-line URGENT TWITTER ACTION to urge Iran to halt imminent execution of Aref Hamidian tomorrow 20 April.
On 13 April UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and three UN The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Ashid, Rapporteur on Torture and the Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention and Executions issued an urgent appeal to Iran on Aref Hamidian's case.
Iran's Judicial authorities told the family they would execute Mr. Aref Hamidian, 25, son of Saeed (aka Lafta) and father of two next week. He, also family's sole breadwinner, was arrested last year and charged with drug trafficking charges a charge used by Iran to silence Ahwazi rights activists. He's been sentenced to death by Revolutionary Court in Ahwaz city with no right of appeal or any access to legal representation or fair hearing.
In the last past few weeks Iran has intensified its crackdown on Ahwazi protesters and rights activists by broadcasting forced televised confessions on sate television and death sentences for activists in order to spread fear among Arab residents and thwart them from organizing protests ahead of the April 15, commemoration of uprisings that took place in several Ahwazi cities in 2005 in protest against a government program designed to change the demographic structure of areas dominated by ethnic Arabs. According to that government plan, ethnic Arabs would become a minority within 10 years.
THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN ARE BUTCHERS,LED BY RELIGIOUS FANATICS WHOS IDEA OF JUSTICE MUST HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED IN A LUNATIC ASSYLUM....STOP THE EXECUTION AND RETURN TO THE HUMAN RACE.SHOW MERCY REAL POWER IS TO SAVE LIFE NOT TAKE IT
ReplyDeleteCut the rope I
ReplyDeletecut the rope from
the neck of the convicted
and bind the judge
Cut the rope II
put the judges to court
and give them a fair trial
for their death sentences
Cut the rope III
life is sacred
no one may steal the right
to breathe freely