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Interrupted Lives: Portraits of Student Repression in Iran

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Two Iranian Kurdish Political Prisoners on Death Row Appeal to Dr. Ahmad Shahid UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran

Dr. Ahmad Shahid

The honorable representative of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations

This letter is the expression of the pain and torment that we, Zanyar and Loqman Moradi, two innocent brothers, have suffered since we were detained in Iran’s Reja’i Shahr prison nearly a year ago. At the writing of this letter we stand condemned to be executed on the basis of false and trumped up charges. We implore international and human rights organizations to come to our help and save our lives.

In this letter, we will describe only some of the barbaric tortures and abusive treatments visited upon us by the security agents of the Islamic republic of Iran. The tortures included- but were not limited to – brutal beatings often aimed at sensitive parts of the body: face, knees, neck and back. We were also subjected to unbearable sexual tortures, including insertion of soda bottle in the anus. Furthermore, the interrogators constantly used obscene language and routinely threatened to torment and persecute our relatives. We were often kept blindfolded, and incommunicado, in horrendous solitary detention.

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A Story from the Memorial

Inayatu'llah Ishraqi

Age: 62

Occupation: government Employee

Religion: Baha'i

Nationality: Iran

Ayatollah Khomeini, Founder of the Islamic Republic.* “The Qur’an recognized only the People of the Book as religious communities. Others are pagans. Pagans must be eliminated.” Iranian Attorney General, Seyed Moussavi-Tabrizi.** ... (read more...)

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