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Student committee of human rights reporters
Ahmad Batebi 
 

Student committee of

human right reporters 

 

Let Us Not Concentrate! In Defence of Ahmad Batebi and Other Targeted  Iranian Students!

It is perhaps surprising that in the days when much of the world is waiting to hear of further reactions to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear stance and possible further sanctions that may result ,   when the Iranian people desire nothing more than peace and peace of mind from the increasing fear and risk of a military (nuclear or conventional) attack on the country, we should write to you to ask - again  - for your aid , voice in defence of one student activist:  one Ahmad Batebi .

Yet we do so, caring about  the individual, despite our increasing and menacing collective concerns - because this one individual has become a symbol of the student movement that was crushed in 1999,  but furthermore  exactly to counteract one of the reasons some prefer international tension and conflict to dialogue and cooperation,  in order to avoid the real internal issues that must be dealt with - and the demands of the people for justice and freedom.

We are greatly concerned about the possibility of a war with and against Iran. At the same time, we have many other worries, and we do not have the luxury of concentrating on one worry at the time. We struggle on many various fronts, and one of these is to support the rights of those students - those activists  - who have dared voice concern ; those who have dared to question and sought and continue to seek to stand upright .

Ahmad Batebi is one of these examples, and his life is in danger. And recalling the fact that Akbar Mohammadi was killed on a similar night, as  we all were  busy concentrating on the war in Lebanon, we can not afford to “concentrate”!

Film students see life  through scenes and pictures.

 “In the summer of 1999, 21 year old film student Ahmad Batebi arrived at a peaceful student protest held in front of his school at University of Tehran. A vigilante mob supported by the special security police had already attacked the protestors injuring several students, arresting numerous others and killing at least one.

Batebi who was trained as an emergency paramedic by the Red Crescent Society of Iran was assisting the injured when he came across a severely injured friend and held his friend's bloody t-shirt above his head to show the cruelty of the attackers. Several journalists and photographers took pictures of his gesture and one ( http://bateby.cjb.net/ ) eventually found its way to the cover of London's prestigious The Economist.

Batebi was arrested on that day and was later brought to trial in front of the special ‘revolutionary court’ in Tehran. His ‘trial’ lasted only a few minutes and he was denied having a lawyer present to defend him. The Economist cover was used as part of the evidence against him and to prove his ‘counter-revolutionary’ activities. He received a death sentence but internal and international pressure, finally caused the authorities to reduce his sentence to 15 years.
Ahmad Batebi has been subjected to solitary confinement, physical and mental torture during his captivity so far and will be a 36 year old man when and if released at the end of his sentence. All for a bloody t-shirt and a picture.” *   Because the Islamic Republic too knows the value of a “good” picture!
As a result of much he has faced in the last 8 years and due to the extreme treatment he has met   in prison,  Ahmad Batebi has now experienced a very serious nervous breakdown and  convulsions , within the past  days. Through this , he has received little medial treatment . Following his family’s endeavours to shed light on Batebi’s recent condition and the growing concern that his  life is in danger , his wife was seized and imprisoned, and released only after growing international pressure was applied and Ahmad Batebi himself began a dry hunger strike in his condition to save his wife. Despite all this, which has been darkening our recent days,  still and   even more worrying is that some “news” of Batebi’s  worsening condition has been spread in advance, so that we must recall Akbar Mohammadi’s murder , shudder, and act.

Those in power in the Islamic Republic have via their reactions proven that they know  it matters what the world thinks! Your voice has in the last years and months saved a number of lives of Iranian activists, and it can save Batebi  and many others now. 

In fact in the last months, we have come to experience a new surge (some would grotesquely say a second “cultural revolution” ) in hindering, fighting, arresting , harassing and eventually killing student activists in Iran. While the lives of imprisoned student activists such as Mehrdad Lahrasbi, Behroouz Javid Tehrani, Keyvan Rafii, Kheyrollah Derakhshandeh, Abdolfazl Jahandar, Keyvan Ansari and so many others  are in danger, those who have called for a war on liberalism in Iranian Universities - meaning a war on thought, on questioning, on   a sense of responsibility for the population’s ever increasing woes, including poverty in this  oil rich country , and fast growing unemployment - march on to hinder , belittle and silence  students , professors and all men and women who stand for thinking and acting based on these thoughts, declaring them to be  the enemies of the state!

Yet, who is the enemy of any state? Students who question? Professors who teach? Men and women who write and try to live according to what they believe? Activists who struggle for some very basic rights? Or those, be they from whichever side, who play the war card, toying with national and international security?

Thus, in the interest of international security as well the right of young mind to develop and the duty of young citizens to act upon the responsibility they feel for their people , please raise your voice , your pens, your arms and  the “computer mice”  to support Ahmad Batebi and other Iranian political prisoners and activists, in all the ways that you can.

We thank you for accompanying us in this endeavour to not be tricked into concentrating, and losing sight of the fact that we struggle on many fronts.

And as always we welcome all actions  calling upon the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to meet its - national, humane -  and international obligations and free all political prisoners and others held based on their religious or ideological opinion and belief.

 

Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters

 

 

|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در پنجشنبه دهم اسفند 1385 | موضوع:
 

Student committee of

human right reporters 

Number: 2006-163

Kayvan Rafii, a human rights activist who was arrested on 9th July in front of Tehran University for unknown reasons, announced to his family, who were visiting him two weeks ago at Section 209 of Evin Prison that the Ministry of Information is faking a case against him and his situation is very uncertain.

 

He is spending his 4th month of captivity in solitary confinement at Penitentiary 209 of the Ministry of Information. According to the law, now that he has finished his temporary detention (maximum of 4 months), the Revolutionary Court and the Ministry of Information are obliged to finalize his case.

 

Previously, a few released prisoners from Section 209 expressed a lot of concern about Kayvan Rafii's condition. Also, Raffi, who had gone twice on hunger strike during his captivity, told his family during their visit that he has now stopped it. It should be mentioned that after 4 months, he has not yet been able to see his lawye

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در دوشنبه ششم آذر 1385 | موضوع:
Zainab Payghambarzadeh 

Student committee of

human right reporters 

Number: 2006-162

 

Zainab Payghambarzadeh, a University of Tehran student, who protested to a 2-term suspension from studies, has been investigated again and that sentence confirmed.

 

This student was given the sentence from the disciplinary committee for allegedly insulting Islamic values, using headscarf (on the grounds of not observing proper Islamic cover), and taking part in the gatherings of last May and June, especially at a student-only gathering at the ladies dormitory of Fatemieh, which was to demand for a change in the time of coming-in and going-out of the dormitory as well as providing welfare needs for students.

 

After confirmation of her sentence, Zainab Payghambarzadeh announced that she would take her case to the Administrative Justice Tribunal. Currently, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has taken up her defence.

 

Also, the Administrative Justice Tribunal overruled the suspension sentence from studies of Payman Aref, a PhD student in Political Science, which was given directly on the order of the Ministry of Information. Despite this overrule, the Selection Commission of the Ministry of Science, in a strange action, refrained from accepting this ruling.

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در دوشنبه ششم آذر 1385 | موضوع:
Ahmad Batebi  

Student committee of

human right reporters 

Date:11-11-2006

Number: 2006-166

 

 

After almost 3 months of his detention in section 209 of Evin prison, Ahmad Batebi situation is still uncertain.

 

His wife Somayeh Baninat after meeting him last week   said that Ahmad physically situation is not good .she objected to whom that had  promised about releasing student prisoners .

Somayeh , Batebi’s wife has been threaded to arrest  by the ministry of Information  for her interviews about Ahmad’s situation .

 

Although Ahmad requested to transfer in to section 350 (Section of political prisoners) , he still keeps  in section 122 (public section ) with Saeed Masouri , Reza Malek , Dr. Alireza Sasani etc .

 

He couldn’t meet his lawyer until now .It is necessary to say that he was arrested 2 days  before Akbar Mohamadi death at prison ( 7th Mordad / August 2006) in his house in Tehran during his sick leave period  .He went on strike for 20 days after arresting

 

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در دوشنبه بیست و دوم آبان 1385 | موضوع:
Asgar Akbar zadeh  

 Student committee of

human right reporters 

Date:10-11-2006

Number: 2006-165

 

Asgar Akbar zadeh , a political prison who was kept at Ardebil (one of Iran’s state )prison ,transferred to the uncertain place  which called house of detention of  ministry of Information

According to the news from Ardebil prison, his family attempts to find the place of transferring him have not had any result.

Although the prison in charge says that the ministry of Information got him, that ministry announces its unawareness about him.

 

Although his family have done every thing for finding a trace of him, they consider probable that they want to vanish him

It must say that other prisoners in his section are worried about him

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در شنبه بیستم آبان 1385 | موضوع:
Kianoush Sanjari  

Student committee of

human right reporters 

Date:8-11-2006

Number: 2006-164 

 

According to the news from section 209 of Ewin  prison , the situation of Kianoush Sanjari a

 politican activist and a member of the Students United Front  is too worrisome.

 

Sanjari who was arrested in front of Ayatollah Boroujerdi's house in Tehran, is under  so many mentally and physically torturing that everyday he is questioned by investigators in prison for several times .

 

His loudly  shout in section 209 clearly shows that Ahmadi nejad ‘s  ministry of Information  has  been started a new rough way for  investigating of prisoners .

 

It is said that many times  heard that Sanjari shouted “ They want to kill me “

 

Sanjari has the experience of many  times arresting in section 209 , 325 & 59 (Sepah sections ) and public sections .His mother is so anxous about the physically situation of his son in prison .

 

Dr . Nemat  Ahmadi accepted to be his lawyer

 

Student committee of human right reporters announces its worried about Kianoush   and want to know his real situation in section 209 .

 

It is clear that the ministry of Information is responsible about every problem which may be happen for him .

 

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در جمعه نوزدهم آبان 1385 | موضوع:
Dr. Saeed Masouri-Mojahedin Khalgh Organization  

Student committee of

human right reporters 

Date:29-10-2006

Number: 2006-159

 

Dr. Saeed Masouri, who was arrested in 2000 for being a member of the People's Mojahedin Khalgh Organization (MKO) and involved in an operation and was sentenced to death on charges of being a "combatant" by the Section 6 of the Revolutionary Court, is currently detained in Section 122 of the Penitentiary 209.

 

Before being transferred to Section 209, he was kept in Hall 1 of Evin Prison (section of political prisoners) and in 2004, unexpectedly, transferred to Security Section 209 by the prison's securities. After enduring one year in solitary confinement, he was transferred to the semi-general section of this penitentiary.

 

Saeed Masouri has now been under threat of being sentenced to death for 6 years. This sentence still standing despite the continuous efforts of human rights activists and former members of Majlis (parliament) like Mr. Mousavi-Khoeini and Mrs. Fatemeh Haghighatjou.

 

It should be mentioned that in March last year, Hojjat Zamani, the Mojahed prisoner under a death sentence, was executed in the month of Moharram in Rejaie Shahr Prison in Karaj. Valiollah Fayzemahdavi, another Mojahed prison under a death sentence, after 9 days on hunger strike, died in the same prison.

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در دوشنبه هشتم آبان 1385 | موضوع:
Reza Malek 

 Student committee of

human right reporters 

Date:25-10-2006

Number: 2006-156

 

Reza Malek, investigation expert at the Ministry of Information, who was arrested, charged

with publishing an 80-page pamphlet in connection with the infamous "chain killings" and revealing the documents about those killings, has now spent six years in the semi-general wing 122 of the Section 209 of the Ministry of Information prison. Although he was sent to 12 years imprisonment, after spending half of his term, he is still detained in the high security wing of the Evin Prison and not allowed to be transferred to the general wing of the prison.

 

Reza Malek, in protest to his uncertain condition, not being allowed a lawyer and being deprived of all basic human rights, for the last 1½ years has refused to go for fresh air in the prison courtyard. Also, because the authorities in Section 209 are toatally ignoring him he is not getting any medical attention; he has lost most of his teeth during his detention in a way that he is no longer able to eat food properly. His food intake is by moistening the bread in water and grinding the fruits before eating them and he is unable to ingest a lot of other foods. 

 

During his detention in Section 209, he developed various kinds of ailments such as migraine and diminishing vision. The lack of attention of the authorities at prison is so much that he is even denied having spectacles and that has forced him to collect the broken pieces of glasses from other inmates in order to assemble a pair for his failing vision.  

 

Under these conditions, Reza Malek has been denied visits by his two children.

 

Previously, Malek in an open letter addressed to human rights organizations and bodies revealed about the severe mental and physical tortures that he had to endure during his detention and sought their help.

 

Reza Malek in this shocking letter points to a few types of torture that they tried on him. For example, he talks about "engineering torture" in which he was thrown completely naked into a room with a trained Russian dog, so being terrified to death, he could confess. Also, according to him, the authorities trried several times to obtain confession by giving him mood-changing drugs.

 

Also, in the same letter, Reza Malek requested that Shirin Ebadi (the Nobel Peace Laureate) takes his defence.However, until now, there has been no response or reaction from Mrs. Ebadi or other lawyers to accept his case.

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در پنجشنبه چهارم آبان 1385 | موضوع:
Kianoush Sanjari 

Student committee of

human right reporters 

 

Date:23-10-2006

Number: 2006-155

 

Kianoush Sanjari, the weblog writer and member of the Students United Front, who was arrested in front of Ayatollah Boroujerdi's house in Tehran, is currently detained at Section 209 of the Ministry of Information. Based on the reports received from Tehran and despite the authorities denying knowing his whereabouts, Sanjari is kept in solitary confinement at Section 209 of the Ministry of Information.

 

Prior to his latest arrest, the political activist Kianoush Sanjari, was previously detained on various charges and spent time in prison. His last detention was in June 2005, when the security forces stormed his house, arrested him and sent him to 4 months solitary confinement.

 

It is worth mentioning that all the people, who were arrested in the gathering in front of Ayatollah Boroujerdi's house, are now detained at Section 209

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در چهارشنبه سوم آبان 1385 | موضوع:
Kayvan Rafiie 

 

Student committee of

human right reporters 

 

Date:22-10-2006

Number: 2006-154

 

The human rights activist, ,Kayvan Rafiie who was arrested on 9th July 2006 in front of the University of Tehran, after three months is still kept in solitary confinement in section 209 of Evin Prison.

 

According to reports from Evin Prison, Kayvan Rafiie was only allowed two visits by his family and only in presence of security officers. Also, based on confirmed reports from inside the prison, Rafiie is under severe pressure by the authorities.

 

In protest to his treatment at prison, Kayvan Rafiie has been on continuous hunger strike for the past three weeks. In view of the special restrictions in section 209 of Evin Prison that ban any leaking of news to the outside world, there is no report available on his health. Some political prisoners, who have recently been freed from this section, have expressed their concern about his health and asked the human rights organizations to pay more attention to this matter and the condition under which he is kept at section 209.

 

Kayvan Rafiie had previously been given a two-year suspended sentence by the Division 26 of the Revolutionary Court. It should also be mentioned that his case is currently under

 investigation by Judge Rassekh at Division 14 of the Revolutionary Court

 

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|+| نوشته شده توسط schrr در دوشنبه یکم آبان 1385 | موضوع: Articles of association
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