December 10 2008

Request for sending an international, non-governmental

Group to Investigate human right situation in Iran

Translation of the request of a group of Iranian human right activist’s organizations on the occasion of December 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 Rights Defenders' International Committee!

 Iranian Governmental authorities have 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 right is violated in a Widespread, planned and systematic way.

According to the number of cases in the 2008 report (see the annexe), which are gathered mainly of the authorised inside of Iran’s sources, human right was violated more severely than last year, in different ways such as:

Increased number of death penalties, execution sentences for people under 18, increased 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 ethical groups and ….

Here by, we ask humbly from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Mrs Navanethem Pillay   and Human Rights Defenders' International Committees, to make a serious attempt on sending an international, non-governmental  group to investigate human right situation in Iran, so subsequently ways on judging human right situation in Iran would become more even and making decisions for 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.

Azerbaijan’s Political Prisoners’ Defense Committee (ASMAK)

Human Rights Reporters’ Committee

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

Iranian Political Prisoners Association

Kurdistan’s Human Right’s Defense Organization (RMMK)

Political Prisoners Defense Organization

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

·        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

·        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