Appeal: Stop Hanging of Three More Baloch in Iran

announcements <img style="float: left;" title="BPP_LogoTra_large.gif" src="/images/442.gif" alt="BPP_LogoTra_large.gif" width="60" height="58" />The world is very much engaged in defending the human rights and the freedom of Iranian people demonstrating against election fraud in big cities such as Teheran and else where. Overshadowed by these events, the regime is slaughtering in hidden the political prisoners who have been arrested long time ago in Balochistan. In the afteermath of the presidential election 19 Baloch prisoners have been executed after short trials in closed-door court rooms without having access to defence lawyers. Three people were hanged on Sunday 31st of May, three days after an explosion in Zahidan, the provincial capital of Balochistan, Iran. Their alleged charges were planning the attack and carrying out the explosion in the “Hosseiniye” adjacent to “Amirulmumeneen Mosque”. We have already disclosed these unjust killings in a comunique part of which is replicated here: The following is quoted from BBC’s Persian language service: “Iranian Official News Agency (IRNA) has quoted a  judge, whose name has not been disclosed, saying that the executed were not involved directly in the explosion but they had been arrested two days before the explosion occurred. However, the accused were interrogated and trialled the night between the 30th and 31st of May, and were executed immediately after being charged for facilitating the explosion<a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn1" target="_blank">[1]</a>”. This rapid trial shows the unjust treatment of the Baloch people by the Islamic Republic of Iran. After this announcement, IRNA on the first of july quoted Ebrahim Hamidi, chief justice of Sistan and Balochistan: that 13 people were under trial charged for drug smuggling, hostage taking and rebellion against the <a name="_ednref2">government</a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn2" target="_blank">[2]</a>. It specifically mentioned Mr Abdul Hameed Rigi who has been tortured to confess to have committed different kinds of crimes ranging from having had contact with Western countries to manslaughter and hostage-taking. His confessions were shown on the state run TV. For the second it was annoced that he would be trialed and executed. On 14th of July 13 of them were hanged in the prison in Zahidan and the regime aonnoced that Mr Abdul Hameed Rigi will also be executed later within some days. Twenty people were hanged in Rajai Prison in Karaj city on 2nd June 2009. According to Radio Balochi FM, three of them named Jamshed Khaleghdadi son of Gholam Mohammad, Najibullah Dardkashedeh Son of Mullah Safar and Khudabaksh Rigi were Baloch<a name="_ednref4"> </a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn4" target="_blank">[4]</a>. According to “Hamoun” TV, local government TV station in Balochistan, two persons were hanged in central jail of Zahedan on 20th June. They were charged for drug smuggling and were trialled in closed court sessions without having access to defence lawyers. Furthermore, their names were not announced as it is usual in cases where the victims are political prisoners but have been trialled as criminals. On 18th of July Ebrahim Hamidi, Chief Justice cleric of Sistan and Balochistan annonced that two people were under trial and would be executed on charges of being members of Jundullah. He further said that they will be executed together with Abdul Hameed Rigi[5]. For the third time the regime has anounced that Mr Abdul Hameed Rigi, either has been executed or will be executed. The Iranian government is playing with a man’s life and putting his family in constant disarray and agony. This act shows the unlimited desire of hatret of the Iranian government towards the Baloch people.    These executions are indications of the discriminating and, possibly a racism-like policy of Iranian government in Balochistan. We believe that Islamic Republic of Iran is committing seriuos crimes against the Baloch people that are equal to crimes against humanity. We therefore appeal to the international community and the human rights organizations to urge the government of Iran to: - Stop discrimination and racism-like treatment of the Baloch people, - Hold open trials with access to defense lawyers for prisoners. - Stop taking forced confessions under inhumane tortures. Notably, Mr Abdul Hameed Rigi has been shown on TV confessing to have committed crimes such as man slaughter, hostage taking, rebellion against the state and connections with western countries such as USA and the UK. - Free all political prisoners in Balochistan and else where in Iran. - Hold responsible the leaders of Islamic Republic for committing crimes against the Baloch which is also equal to crimes against huamanity. - To investigate the crimes of the leaders of Islamic Republic in an the Hague Internationa court.   Nasser Boladai Spokes person of the Balochistan Peoples Party   <a name="_edn1">References:</a> <a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> http://www.bbc. co.uk/persian/ iran/2009/ 07/090701_ alia_jonddollah_ rigi.shtml <a name="_edn2"></a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref2" target="_blank">[2]</a> http://www.radiofar da.com/content/ F7_Jundollah_ AbdolHamid_ Rigi/1767602. html <a name="_edn3"></a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref3" target="_blank">[3]</a> Web address to Balochistan Human Right activists weblog: http://bhrw. blogspot. com <a name="_edn4"></a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref4" target="_blank">[4]</a> Web address to Radio Balochi FMs news: http://www.radiobal ochi.org/ BH_Rights/ 3tanAzEdamiyaneR ajaeiShahrBaloch Bodand090704. html <a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref4" target="_blank">[5]</a> http://www.radiobalochi.org/BH_Rights/3jawanehbalochDarAstaneEdam090718.html

2009-07-20T18:07:19-06:00

For the third time the regime has anounced that Mr Abdul Hameed Rigi, either has been executed or will be executed. The Iranian government is playing with a man’s life and putting his family in constant disarray and agony. This act shows the unlimited desire of hatret of the Iranian government towards the Baloch people 236 true

2009-07-20T18:07:19-06:00

BPP BPP Appeal: Stop Hanging of Three More Baloch in Iran

2010-03-11T11:29:46-07:00

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announcements <img style="float: left;" title="BPP_LogoTra_large.gif" src="/images/71.gif" alt="BPP_LogoTra_large.gif" width="60" height="58" />Three people were hanged on Saturday 30st of May, only two days after an explosion in Zahidan, the provincial capital of Balochistan, Iran, on 28th May 2009. They were charged for planning the attack and carrying out the explosion in the “Hosseiniye” adjacent to “Amirulmumeneen Mosque”. The following is quoted from BBC’s Persian language service: “Iranian Official News Agency (IRNA) has quoted a  judge, whose name has not been disclosed, saying that the executed were not involved directly in the explosion but they had been arrested two days before the explosion occurred. However, the accused were interrogated and trialled the night between the 30th and 31st of May, and were executed immediately after being charged for facilitating the explosion<a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn1" target="_blank">[1]</a>”. This rapid trial shows the unjust treatment of the Baloch people by the Islamic Republic of Iran. After this announcement, IRNA quoted Ebrahim Hamidi, chief justice of Sistan and Balochistan, saying that 13 people were under trial charged for drug smuggling, hostage taking and rebellion against the <a name="_ednref2">government</a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn2" target="_blank">[2]</a>. According to “Balochistan Human Rights Activists” one of the persons who is being trialled is Mulavi Abed Goramzahi. Mulavi Goramzahi along with 4 other religious scholars and activists had been arrested on 16th June <a name="_ednref3">2008</a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn3" target="_blank">[3]</a>. One of these arrestees, Mulavi Salahuldin was executed on 3rd March 2009. According to “Hamoun” TV, local government TV station in Balochistan, two persons were hanged in central jail of Zahedan on 20th June. They were charged for drug smuggling and were trialled in closed court sessions without having access to defence lawyers. Furthermore, their names were not announced as it is usual in cases where the victims are political prisoners but have been trialled as criminals. Twenty people were hanged in Rajai Prison in Karaj city on 2nd June 2009. According to Radio Balochi FM, three of them named Jamshed Khaleghdadi son of Gholam Mohammad, Najibullah Dardkashedeh Son of Mullah Safar and Khudabaksh Rigi were Baloch<a name="_ednref4"> </a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_edn4" target="_blank">[4]</a>. We believe that Islamic Republic of Iran by announcing the trial of the 13 Baloch behind closed doors and without access to defense lawyers, is clearing the way to execute them. We therefore appeal to the international community and the human rights organizations to urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to: 1. Hold open trials with access to defense lawyers for prisoners. 2. Stop taking forced confessions under inhumane tortures. Two prisoners Mr Abdul Hamed Rigi and Mulavi Abed Goramzahi have been shown on TV confessing to have committed crimes such as man slaughter, hostage taking, rebellion against the state and connections with western countries such as USA and the UK. 3. Free all political prisoners in Balochistan and else where in Iran.   Nasser Boladai Spokes person of the Balochistan Peoples Party <a name="_edn1">References:</a> <a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> http://www.bbc. co.uk/persian/ iran/2009/ 07/090701_ alia_jonddollah_ rigi.shtml <a name="_edn2"></a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref2" target="_blank">[2]</a> http://www.radiofar da.com/content/ F7_Jundollah_ AbdolHamid_ Rigi/1767602. html <a name="_edn3"></a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref3" target="_blank">[3]</a> Web address to Balochist Human Right activists weblog: http://bhrw. blogspot. com <a name="_edn4"></a><a href="http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=0&.tm=1246893222&.rand=fn96cebd54lc0#_ednref4" target="_blank">[4]</a> Web adress to Radio Balochi FMs news: http://www.radiobal ochi.org/ BH_Rights/ 3tanAzEdamiyaneR ajaeiShahrBaloch Bodand090704. html

2009-07-07T09:34:05-06:00

We believe that Islamic Republic of Iran by announcing the trial of the 13 Baloch behind closed doors and without access to defense lawyers, is clearing the way to execute them. We therefore appeal to the international community and the human rights organizations to urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to: 221 true

2009-07-07T09:34:05-06:00

Balochistan Peoples Party BPP Appeal: urge the Iranian Regime to Stop Arbitrary Arrests and Killings in Balochistan

2010-03-11T02:10:16-07:00

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announcements   Many faces of Human Right violation in Iran                        And CNFI’s Solution For a transition to Democracy and Federalism   Presented by Nasser Boladai in a meeting in the Swiss Parliaments on behalf of Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran on 4th June 2009 Iran is a multi-national country, with several other major nationalities in addition to the Persians; namely the Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani, Baloch, Kurd and Turkmen. These nations constitute more than 50% of Iran's total population, yet they continue to experience cultural, social and political discrimination.  The Iranian centralized government has effectively denied the country's many religious minorities and nationalities their cultural, linguistic, social rights, religious freedom. Thereby creating a system in which non-Persians and non-Shiites are discriminated against.  Ethnic and religious minorities, along with women, suffer marginalization and systematic discrimination, as successive governments have ensured their exclusion from power in the constitution. The recent years have been witness to increased and extensive human rights violations in non dominant nationalities regions. The suppression of none dominant nationalities in Iran are manifold.  One of the grim faces of suppression is physical insecurity, which is manifested by the continued execution of members of none dominant nationalities particularly in Balochistan, Kurdistan and Ahwaz. Suppression of the civil society and non governmental organizations is an integral policy of the current regime. One of its victim was Voice of Justice.  Its leaders were arrested and two of them, Mr. Yaghob Mehrnihad and Abdul Nasser, were executed after imprisonment and torture.  Some of the leaders are still in prison.  One of the imprisoned is Mr. Ibrahim Mehrnihad, the younger brother of Mr. Yaghob Mehrnihad, who spent his eighteenth birthday in the prison. He has been sentenced to five years in prison for giving information to the media about his brother and other prisoners. Another face of regime injustice is religious workers. Two religious workers were executed on the 9th of April 2008, in Balochistan. Hundreds of other religious activists have been arrested and are still in prison in Iran. In the last two years two mosques and religious schools were destroyed and religious worker arrested.  "Abu Hanifa Mosque," in Azimabad a suburb of the city of Zabol, was attacked and demolished on the 27th of August 2008 and its students and staff were arrested. On the 27th of October 2007, another mosque in the same district was attacked and destroyed by associates of the Revolutionary Guard in the Zabol area of Balochistan. The mosque was closed and its Imam, Hafez Mohammad Ali Shahbkhsh was arrested. Members of Baha’i faith are particularly targeted, their basic human right are violated and they marked as traitor, blamed to have connection with foreign government hence are under constant persecution, by Iranian security forces. To achieve a federal Iran the Congress of nationalities, while organizing itself internally, is also trying to build an alliance for a transition to democracy and secularism; and the creation of a federal system based on parity of constituent part.  Iran, as theocratic and patriarchal society, discriminates against women. Discrimination against women is institutionalized, and enshrined in the constitution.  Women activists are harassed and imprisoned. The current Iranian regime does not allowing workers to freely build unions, in order to struggle for their class and social rights. Workers leaders are harassed and some are in prison, most notably Mansor Usanloo, Ebrahim Madadi and Mahmood Salhi.  Beside these sections, there are other groups, most notably student movements and organizations, who are struggling to achieve their rights.   In this political environment each group is struggling to achieve its aim without any systematic and tangible cooperation. Their lack of unity has made the regime’s job, to suppress each group, easier without having to confront them. In turn, this has made progress towards a transition to democracy difficult. Our solution calls for a systematic and intensive political dialogue to develop a common agenda; in order to build a broad based democratic opposition committed to democracy, federalism, the allowance for secularism, self determination, sovereignty, gender equality, as well as the freedom of religion and speech. Such a broad based opposition should make democracy, gender equality, secularism, republican federal system based on parity of constituent part as its ground values.  The Federal structure should put an end to all kind of discrimination against non-dominant nationalities. The commitment should accommodate nationalities right so that it can build their confidence that the new structure will end all discrimination them based on nationality and religion. The majority of the political parties of non dominant nationalities have joined together to build the Congress of Nationality for a Federal Iran.  It is the largest political entity in Iran.  Some opposition groups among the Persian nationality have built several active organizations while other Persian groups have less active alliances; this indicates their different approaches and ideological differences.  All of these alliances will be ineffective if they do not find a common ground to unite. Building a broad based alliance is the biggest challenge for the liberal, democratic and social democratic forces in the opposition. Building this alliance is essential to give confidence to people to join to a popular and peaceful uprising against dictatorship and economical hardship that people are facing in Iran. Although the various groups have different ideas on the scope of a federal system or how to adopt it to Iran’s particular situation, there are more similarities which make them natural allies against the current theocratic and absolutist regime in Iran. Each is committed to democracy, in the form of a liberal democratic system and some kind of federal structure, equality between genders and freedom of speech and religion. The lack of culture of political discourse in Iran, in the absence of systematic dialog between different alliances, has caused suspicion among the groups regarding the ultimate aim of the other one.  To overcome their suspicions and to build a viable democratic alliance, group representatives have to start a systematic dialogue in the form of conference with the joint resolution and a time frame to come to some understanding and a political framework which unites them in pursuit of a  liberal democratic political system based on people sovereignty and self determination and a non-centralized power structure which accommodates non-dominate nationalities’ aspiration for shared sovereignty and self rule. In conclusion, Iran as a multinational country, comprised of several nationalities, the democratic alliance should put the different nationalities on an equal footing.  Together, they should decide upon the future of Iran and how to solve the chronic internal crisis brought about by successive dictatorships. To chart the future course of Iran and both encourage and strategize non-violent change towards a peaceful, stable and secure country and a democratic, secular civil society CNFI sees  it as vital to strengthen relations among the various national and religious groups within Iran; to promote democracy, social justice, federalism, rule of law, human rights, equal rights for women and protection of the rights of all ethnic and religious minorities including Baha'is, Christians, Jews, and Sunnis.   Presented by Nasser Boladai On behalf of Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran At  a meeting in the Swiss parliament 4th June 2009

2009-06-16T07:49:49-06:00

In conclusion, Iran as a multinational country, comprised of several nationalities, the democratic alliance should put the different nationalities on an equal footing. Together, they should decide upon the future of Iran and how to solve the chronic internal crisis brought about by successive dictatorships. To chart the future course of Iran and both encourage and strategize non-violent change towards a peaceful, stable and secure country and a democratic, secular civil society CNFI sees it as vital to strengthen relations among the various national and religious groups within Iran; to promote democracy, social justice, federalism, rule of law, human rights, equal rights for women and protection of the rights of all ethnic and religious minorities including Baha'is, Christians, Jews, and Sunnis. Speech in Swiss Parliament June 4, 2009 205 true

2009-06-16T07:49:49-06:00

Many faces of Human Right violation in Iran, By Nasser Boladai

2010-03-11T01:13:39-07:00

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