giovedì 19 settembre 2013

Iran - Immediate release student activist Maryam Shafipour

URGENT ACTION

theguardian.com, Monday 3 March 2014

An Iranian court has sentenced a leading student activist and human rights campaigner to seven years in prison for peaceful political activism.
Maryam Shafipour, 29, who is being held in a women's wing of Evin prison in Tehran, was found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "gathering and colluding" against the ruling system. She was arrested in July after being summoned for questioning and was kept in solitary confinement for more than two months without access to her lawyer.
The opposition website Sahamnews reported on Sunday that her sentence was issued by Abolghasem Salavati, a judge at the Islamic revolutionary court. He has handed down heavy sentences to activists and campaigners in recent years, especially in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election in 2009. It was not clear if Shafipour had access to legal representation in the court.
Maryam Shafipour
Maryam Shafipour was jailed 'merely for peacefully expressing her views', says Amnesty.
In 2009, Shafipour, a student of agricultural engineering from the Imam Khomeini International University in Qazvin, a province west of Tehran, campaigned for the opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, and was a member of the women's committee for his campaign. She was first arrested in 2010 and subsequently given to a one-year suspended prison term. She has since been barred from continuing her education and expelled from university. Other student activists imprisoned in Iran include Majid Tavakkoli, Bahareh Hedayat, Seyyed Zia Nabavi, Majid Dori and Navid Khanjani.
A relative of Shafipour told the opposition website Kaleme that the activist had been under pressure from her interrogators to confess and had been mistreated and tortured in jail.
In December, the Committee of Human Rights Reporters in Iran (CHRR) reported that Shafipour's health was deteriorating in Evin.
"In the past week her high blood pressure reached dangerous levels rendering her unconscious and she was transferred to the prison's infirmary," CHRR reported.
"Despite the recommendation by the prison's doctor that Shafipour immediately receive an MRI, the prison authorities did not comply. In addition during the past weeks Maryam Shafipour has been suffering from extreme toothache but she has not been seen by a dentist nor been allowed to receive medical attention for her teeth."
Amnesty International has also said that Shafipour reportedly passed out in December after experiencing an irregular heartbeat.
The charity's Middle East and north Africa deputy director, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, said on Monday: "Maryam Shafipour's conviction is a chilling reminder of how little Iran's human rights record has changed since 2009, when students were arrested in droves during postelection unrest.
"That a student could be jailed for seven years merely for peacefully expressing her views or supporting an opposition politician defies belief.
"Maryam Shafipour should be immediately and unconditionally released, and allowed to continue her studies. She should not spend the next seven years languishing in Evin prison."

Link News:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/mar/03/iran-sentences-student-activist-seven-years-prison-maryam-shafipour  

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-maryam-shafipour.html  

LETTER

Object: Immediate release student activist Maryam Shafipour

Your Excellency,
I am writing to you at this time to seek your assistance in the situation of student activist Maryam Shafipour.
Ms Maryam  Shafipour has been arrested on Saturday July 27.
According to a report by Advar News, the intelligence agents have gone to her house and taken some of her personal properties including her laptop, 2 mobile phones and her personal notes.
After the interrogations the agents have arrested and transferred Ms Maryam Shafipour to Evin prison.
She was kept in solitary confinement for more than two months without access to her lawyer.
An Iranian court has sentenced Maryam Shafipour to seven years in prison. Was found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "gathering and colluding" against the ruling system. 
Maryam Shafipour is in critical health condition.
I ask the Iranian government the his immediate release.
Ms Maryam Shafipour is an innocent woman.
In awaiting your reply, be assured of my most respectful sentiments.
Yours sincerely.
(your name)

Address:

Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
Salutation: Your Excellency
The Office of the Supreme Leader
Islamic Republic Street – End of Shahid
Keshvar Doust Street,
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info_leader@leader.ir
Twitter: "#Iran Leader

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Salutation: Your Excellency
His Excellency Hassan Rouhani
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani
Salutation: Your Excellency
[care of] Public relations Office
Number 4, 2 Azizi Street
Vali Asr Ave., above Pasteur Street intersection
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

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mercoledì 11 settembre 2013

Interrogators of Imprisoned Iranian Blogger Hossein Maleki Threatened To Let Him Die From Medical Neglect. Letter sent to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed -11/09/2013

John Burke's letter that I sent today to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed

Link:
Your Excellency Dr. Shaheed,
I am contacting your office to convey my extreme alarm over the deteriorating health of imprisoned Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki. His jailers have deliberately withheld critically needed medical care from him, which is in gross violation of both international law and Iranian prison regulations. Furthermore, it has recently come to light that his interrogators have threatened that they will let him die from medical neglect in prison if he continues to refuse to "cooperate" with them. Hossein's father has appealed directly to your office for your intercession to save the life of his son. I am writing to you to urge you to hear this father's desperate appeal.
The office of Tehran's prosecutor has officially denied medical furlough for Hossein Maleki. To read more about his condition and the background of his case, please see:
I ask you to urgently contact the prosecutor's office and all levels of the Islamic Republic judiciary and prison administration to insist that they comply with both international law and their own regulations. Iran’s State Prison Organization regulations also provide that prison inmates be transferred to hospital outside the prison facility, when necessary. The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners require that authorities transfer all those held needing specialist treatment to specialized institutions, including civilian hospitals.
On behalf of Hossein Ronaghi and his family, I thank  you for your urgent attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Mariacarmela Ribecco


venerdì 6 settembre 2013

Immediate release Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer, Hani al-Zitani and Bilal Ahmed Bilal. Email sent to Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov – 06/09/2013

Your Excellency,
We want to take the opportunity to call your attention to the case of Syrian
activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer, Hani al-Zitani and Bilal Ahmed Bilal.
Mazen Darwish is director of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of expression.
Hussein Ghrer is blogger and graduate at the Faculty of Information Engineering.
Hani Zitani is a graduate of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sociology and university teacher.
The process of Mazen Darwish, Hussein Gharir and Hani Zaitani is resumed on August 21st.
Arrested on 6 February 2012 because of their peaceful commitment to freedom of expression, they are facing up on 15 years of imprisonment with forced labour on a charge of “publicising terrorist actions” under article 8 of an anti-terrorism law that President Assad signed in 2012.
Bilal Ahmed Bilal is graduate of Arts and Humanities at the University of Damascus. Worked as a television journalist and filmmaker in Syria. Bilal has been held for over a year incommunicado.
Bilal Ahmed Bilal was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a military court on 12 June because of his coverage of events in the west Damascus district of Mo’damieh Sham in 2011.
We call for a strong diplomatic pressure. Their detention is unlawful and their lives are in danger.
Thanking you in advance for your time on this important and urgent matter.
Mariacarmela Ribecco (Italy), Maribel Lafuente (Spain), Gabriele Datzer (Germany), Maria Luisa Crosina (Italy), Soror Irani (Canada), Giuseppe Di Bella (French Polynesia), Anette Meyer (Sweden), Margaret Buyukkurt (Turkey), Isabella Rossi (Germany), Emerald Dove (Germany), Shary Faramarzi (Germany), Laurence Meylemans (France), Farzaneh Irandoost (Sweden), Bernard Durning (France), AnnaMaria Livolsi (Italy), Oliver Butenuth (Germany), Siyamack Sohrabmanesh (Italy), Larissa Bender (Germany), Louis Richard (Canada), Dominik Bender (Germany), Ruth Olafsdottir (USA), Sophie Caymaris (France), Elisabeth Scott (USA), Vu Nguyen (USA), Joanna Kozanecka (Poland), Paolo Merolla (Italy), Abier Bushnaq (Germany), Filippo Angileri (Italy), Sonja Jo (Syria), Elisabeth Millet (France), Markella V (Greece), Elisa Cassinelli (Italy), Michelle Crosslin (USA), Shahriar Imam (Italy), Petra Becker (Germany), Neiry Jacob (UK), Cordula Giewald (Germany), Bilal Breigheche (Italy), Fadia Foda (Germany), Emilio Diaz (Spain), Mary Rizzo (Italy), Markella Valsa (Greece), James Kubik (USA), Stelios Bardas (Greece), Enrica Del Gaudio (Italy), Heinz Leitner (Austria), Nader Moavenian (USA), Giuseppe Di Bella (France), Anita Hunt (UK), Chris Crowstaff (UK), Teresa Rosiak-Bolewska (Poland), Michael John Smith (Slovenia), Steinar Strandheim (Sweden), Joan Cove (UK), Nico Nissen (Germany), Fara Tah (Greece), Coy Falcon (Canada), Joanna Laude (France), Vanessa Marzullo (Italy), Lorenzo Querzola (Italy), Kurt Alleyne (UK), Elena Gennaro (Italy), Nabil Bushnaq (Germany), Thaddeus Hutyra (Belgium), Jim Kubik (USA), Fátima Coutinho (Brazil), Madell Scudder (USA), John Burke (USA), Niulis Targino (Brazil), Janet Beck (Canada), Gunn Vigdis Værnes (Norway), Siriaamor Siriaamor (Austria), Beverly Harris (USA), Madell Scudder (USA), Johannes De Ruiter (Netherlands), Patrick Peronne (France), Sophie Benali (Europe), Annalisa Roveroni (Italy), Max Rafii (USA), Siria Niviano (Italy), Christina Andersson (Sweden), Maria Sophia Quine (UK), Sergio Zucchi (Jamaica), Bronwen Griffiths (UK), Pi Overgaard (Denmark), Fariba Zivehe (Germany), Ray Safar (Canada), Rien Shaw (Canada), Irene Capelli (Italy), Sonja Jo (Syria), Germano Monti (Italy), Bronwen Griffiths (UK), Tommy Bäck (Switzerland), Margaret Lynd (Canada), Wynn M ChapmaN (France), Ana Lourdes León Melero (Spain), Mohssen M (Iran), Jutta Steller (Germany), Aidee Ugarte (USA), Erin LeGresley (Canada), Ali Soho (Philippines), Cornelia Toelgyes (Italy), Attika Toumi (France), Elizabeth McDonald (Canada), Josef Johnson (USA), Peggy Lynd (Canada), Higari Kaga (USA), John Ennis (USA), Marcello Luciano (USA), Ali Soho (Philippines), Ruj Rbk (France), Nasi Payghambarian (Sweden), Annabelle Gabriel (France), Marine Herrenschmidt (France), Amy Poll (Netherlands), Sallie Martin (USA), Patrizia Vampa (Italy), Deidre Kellogg (USA), Shohreh Ghasemi (USA), Pete Klosterman (USA), Jonathon Tingey (Canada), Marina Bondas (Germany), Blake Parker (USA), Rana Sammani (USA), Paie Hooper-Reichbart (USA), Emad Mahou (USA), Giorgio Galli (Italy), Pamela Damiana Cito (Italy), Bronwen Griffiths (UK), Alam Georgette (France), Terry White (Canada), Jeremy Fleming (Canada), Kurt Alleyne (UK), CM Esteve (France),  Francesca Frascaroli (Italy), Allen Dusablon (USA), Carole Vila (USA), Penina Sarah (USA), Chiara Costanzo (Italy), Ruth Leahy (Australia), Lise Aubin (Canada), David Mark (UK) and Azita Malek (Australia).

mercoledì 4 settembre 2013

Letter Martin Schulz (Chair of Delegation to the UfM Parliamentary Assembly (European Parliament)) for Right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists - 04/09/2013

Dear Ms Ribecco, Dear All,

Thank you for your email and for your vigilance. I follow the situation in Tunisia closely, both as President of the European Parliament and as Chair of the European Parliament Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.
During my visit to Tunisia last December, I highlighted the capital role that free media must play in laying the foundation for a successful transition in the country and the creation of a genuine, stable and pluralist democracy respecting fundamental freedoms and human rights.
In this framework, I thank you for highlighting the case of the head of Ettounsiya TV Sami Fehri. I have already instructed the relevant members of my cabinet to follow the case closely and consult with the EU delegation in Tunisia to react appropriately.

Best regards,
Martin Schulz


-----Original Message-----
From: mariacarmelaribecco@libero.it [mailto:mariacarmelaribecco@libero.it]
Sent: 02 September 2013 21:43
To: SCHULZ Martin, President
Subject: Right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists

Dear Chair of Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean,
We would like to take the opportunity to call your attention to on right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists.
The Tunisia must give voice to his people. The freedom of information is a right. We read about journalists censored and threatened.
We are concerned about the arrest and the hunger strike of TV producer and director of television Ettounsiya Sami Fehri.
We are asking a strong diplomatic pressure for protect the job of journalists. A free journalist allows the change and growth of a nation.
In awaiting your reply, be assured of our most respectful sentiments.


Mariacarmela Ribecco (Italy), Marcos Zacariades (Brazil), Louis Richard (Canada), Maria Luisa Crosina (Italy), Maria Sophia Quine (UK), Diana Nardella (Italy), Shahriar Imam (Italy), Isabel Costa (Spain), Siyamack Sohrabmanesh (Italy), Milesi Gherardo (Germany), Anita Hunt (UK), Elena Gennaro (Italy), Maribel Lafuente (Spain), Anette Meyer (Sweden), Uli Vsanden (Germany), Mohssen M (Iran), Cordula Giewald (Germany), Gunn Vigdis Værnes (Norway), Vasudeva Nayak (Germany), Iver Neumann (Norway), Amy Poll (Netherlands), Dianne Wells (USA), Mona Bentzen (Norway), Elisabeth Millet (France), Khadija Chaouachi (Tunisia), Steinar Strandheim (Sweden), Ali Soho (Philippines), Wynn M Chapman (France), Attika Toumi (France), Sherry Breznicki (USA), Teresa Masia Perales (France), Joanna Kozanecka (Poland), Arati Ganguly (India), Jaya Chakraborty (India), Indranil Chakraborty (India), Peter Walther (Germany), Ahmed Semine (Canada), Cécile Bourreau (France), Jonathon Tingey (Canada), P. Winston Fettner (USA), Isabella Summers (Australia), Sue Fellows (UK), Thaddeus Hutyra (Belgium), Nona Simons (USA), Carole Vila (USA), Higari Kaga (USA), Sunny Bangar (India), Nasi Payghambarian (Sweden), Fátima Coutinho (Brazil), Natalia Lourenzo (Brazil), Saeed Khan Falahi (India), Jaya Chakraborty (India), Arati Ganguly (India), Sophie Caymaris (France), Randy Kling (USA), Lesley Dove (UK), Bruno Santos Ribeiro (Portugal), Maria Guia Alix (Spain), Angelito Roño (Philippines), Loredana Zecca Vinciguerra (USA), Terry White (Canada), Therese Rickman-Bull (USA), Steve Berry (Australia), Mouna Dhaoui (Tunisia), Massimiliano Zecca Vinciguerra (USA), Sunny Bangar (India), Eva De Vor (Netherlands), Charls Dixi (USA), Julie Harris (USA), Allen Dusablon (USA), Jean-Jacques Girard (France), Jaya Chakraborty (India), Jagmohan Singh (India), Arati Ganguly (India), Mansour Alomari (Turkey), Allen Dusablon (USA), Rune Moen (Norway), Joanna Laude (France), Christine Mikolaitis (France), Rinki Banerji (India), Sophie Caymaris (France), Solmaz Dezhparvar Derakhshan (Iran), John Burke (USA), Lesley Dove (UK), Bjarne Kim Pedersen (Denmark), Dale Williams (USA), Joanna Cove (UK), Peymaneh Shafi (USA), Shiva Nojo (Germany), Moni Kashef (USA), Thomas Ah Yee (USA) and Samantha Cummings (UK).

Petition
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-tv-producer-and-director-sami-fehri.html


domenica 1 settembre 2013

Immediate release Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer, Hani al-Zitani and Bilal Ahmed Bilal. Email sent to Ministers and Governors G20 – 01/09/2013

Dear Ministers and Governors,

We want to take the opportunity to call your attention to the case of Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer, Hani al-Zitani and Bilal Ahmed Bilal.
Mazen Darwish is director of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of expression.
Hussein Ghrer is blogger and graduate at the Faculty of Information Engineering.
Hani Zitani is a graduate of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sociology and university teacher.
Bilal Ahmed Bilal is graduate of Arts and Humanities at the University of Damascus.
Worked as a television journalist and filmmaker in Syria. Bilal has been held for over a year incommunicado. It was reported by a released prisoner that Bilal was taken from the capital’s Mezzeh airport to Sednaya prison and has not been seen since April 2012.
We call for a strong diplomatic pressure. Their detention is unlawful and their lives are in danger.
Thanking you in advance for your time on this important and urgent matter.
Mariacarmela Ribecco (Italy), Maribel Lafuente (Spain), Gabriele Datzer (Germany), Maria Luisa Crosina (Italy), Soror Irani (Canada), Giuseppe Di Bella (French Polynesia), Anette Meyer (Sweden), Margaret Buyukkurt (Turkey), Isabella Rossi (Germany), Emerald Dove (Germany), Shary Faramarzi (Germany), Laurence Meylemans (France), Farzaneh Irandoost (Sweden), Bernard Durning (France), AnnaMaria Livolsi (Italy), Oliver Butenuth (Germany), Siyamack Sohrabmanesh (Italy), Larissa Bender (Germany), Louis Richard (Canada), Dominik Bender (Germany), Ruth Olafsdottir (USA), Sophie Caymaris (France), Elisabeth Scott (USA), Vu Nguyen (USA), Joanna Kozanecka (Poland), Paolo Merolla (Italy), Abier Bushnaq (Germany), Filippo Angileri (Italy), Sonja Jo (Syria), Elisabeth Millet (France), Markella V (Greece), Elisa Cassinelli (Italy), Michelle Crosslin (USA), Shahriar Imam (Italy), Petra Becker (Germany), Neiry Jacob (UK), Cordula Giewald (Germany), Bilal Breigheche (Italy), Fadia Foda (Germany), Emilio Diaz (Spain), Mary Rizzo (Italy), Markella Valsa (Greece), James Kubik (USA), Stelios Bardas (Greece), Enrica Del Gaudio (Italy), Heinz Leitner (Austria), Nader Moavenian (USA), Giuseppe Di Bella (France), Anita Hunt (UK), Chris Crowstaff (UK), Teresa Rosiak-Bolewska (Poland), Michael John Smith (Slovenia), Steinar Strandheim (Sweden), Joan Cove (UK), Nico Nissen (Germany), Fara Tah (Greece), Coy Falcon (Canada), Joanna Laude (France), Vanessa Marzullo (Italy), Lorenzo Querzola (Italy), Kurt Alleyne (UK), Elena Gennaro (Italy), Nabil Bushnaq (Germany), Thaddeus Hutyra (Belgium), Jim Kubik (USA), Fátima Coutinho (Brazil), Madell Scudder (USA), John Burke (USA), Niulis Targino (Brazil), Janet Beck (Canada), Gunn Vigdis Værnes (Norway), Siriaamor Siriaamor (Austria), Beverly Harris (USA), Madell Scudder (USA), Johannes De Ruiter (Netherlands), Patrick Peronne (France), Sophie Benali (Europe), Annalisa Roveroni (Italy), Max Rafii (USA), Siria Niviano (Italy), Christina Andersson (Sweden), Maria Sophia Quine (UK), Sergio Zucchi (Jamaica), Bronwen Griffiths (UK), Pi Overgaard (Denmark), Fariba Zivehe (Germany), Ray Safar (Canada), Rien Shaw (Canada), Irene Capelli (Italy), Sonja Jo (Syria), Germano Monti (Italy), Bronwen Griffiths (UK), Tommy Bäck (Switzerland), Margaret Lynd (Canada), Wynn M ChapmaN (France), Ana Lourdes León Melero (Spain), Mohssen M (Iran), Jutta Steller (Germany), Aidee Ugarte (USA), Erin LeGresley (Canada), Ali Soho (Philippines), Cornelia Toelgyes (Italy), Attika Toumi (France), Elizabeth McDonald (Canada), Josef Johnson (USA), Peggy Lynd (Canada), Higari Kaga (USA), John Ennis (USA), Marcello Luciano (USA), Ali Soho (Philippines), Ruj Rbk (France), Nasi Payghambarian (Sweden), Annabelle Gabriel (France), Marine Herrenschmidt (France), Amy Poll (Netherlands), Sallie Martin (USA), Patrizia Vampa (Italy), Deidre Kellogg (USA), Shohreh Ghasemi (USA), Pete Klosterman (USA), Jonathon Tingey (Canada), Marina Bondas (Germany), Blake Parker (USA), Rana Sammani (USA), Paie Hooper-Reichbart (USA), Emad Mahou (USA), Giorgio Galli (Italy), Pamela Damiana Cito (Italy), Bronwen Griffiths (UK), Alam Georgette (France), Terry White (Canada), Jeremy Fleming (Canada), Kurt Alleyne (UK), CM Esteve (France),  Francesca Frascaroli (Italy), Allen Dusablon (USA), Carole Vila (USA), Penina Sarah (USA), Chiara Costanzo (Italy), Ruth Leahy (Australia), Lise Aubin (Canada), David Mark (UK) and Azita Malek (Australia).