Iranian National Front in the United State
Sep/15/2009
His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary General of the United Nations
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Your Excellency,
We are addressing this letter to you, because as the Secretary General of the United Nations, you have become the ultimate resort for those people around the world who are suffering under tyrannical regimes that violate their human rights and subject them to cruel and degrading punishments.
You are certainly well aware of the recent events in Iran in the wake of the presidential elections of the June 12th of this year. The Iranian people showed up massively at the polls in the hope of bringing about democratic and peaceful change in the way their country is governed. Alas, the anti-democratic elements that have increasingly monopolized the power in Iran since the 1979 revolutions and have deprived the people of their most basic rights under the guise of religion were determined to prevent this change at any price. They grossly rigged the election and when the deeply shocked and disappointed people peacefully protested, they savagely attacked them. A large number among them were killed or injured, several thousands were arrested, imprisoned and subjected to most inhumane treatments, including torture and rape.
In addition to the mass detention of peaceful protesters, the regime seized the opportunity to round up prominent figures of all pro-democracy groups, placing most of them in solitary confinement, without access to legal counsel or contact with their families. The detainees were then forced under torture and harsh interrogatory methods to come up with self-incriminatory confessions destined to be used against them in dreadful Stalinist show trials that the regime has staged during the recent weeks One of those prominent political detainees is Mr. Kourosh Zaim, a senior member of Iranian national Front, Iran’s oldest secular political formation that has been at the forefront of the struggle for democracy in our country since its creation in the 1940s.
It is now more than two months since Mr. Zaim was imprisoned without any formal charges. More than half of this time he has been held in solitary confinement and subjected to various forms of maltreatment. Mr. Zaim‘s only sin like many other Iran’s prisoners of conscience is his firm belief in democracy, freedom and human rights and his courage to loudly express his attachment to these universally recognized values. In particular, Mr. Zaim had called on the Islamic Republic on several occasions to respect its international human rights obligations.
It is worth remembering that Iran was among the first signatories of both the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore is duty-bound to honor its obligations under those international compacts. But the acts of the Islamic Republic from its very first day of establishment have been in outright violation of those obligations. The theocratic government of Tehran has brazenly trampled the most basic rights of Iranian citizens during the whole three decade of its existence. But the violation of human rights, freedom of expression and freedom of press has dramatically and increasingly worsened since the advent of Mr. Ahmadi Nejad’s government four years ago, reaching its climax in the weeks following the presidential elections.
Under the present leadership in Iran thousands of peaceful, freedom loving propels, like Mr. Zaim are unlawfully held in the regime’s dungeons, without due process and any semblance of. This is why the intervention of the Secretary General of the United Nations on behalf of the prisoners of conscience in the countries like Iran has become so vital and critical. This intervention on the eve of the annual session of the UN General assembly, to which a delegation led by Mr. Ahmadi Nejad from Islamic Republic will attend, becomes more timely and significant than ever.
We are presenting your Excellency our deep appreciation in advance for a vigorous call to the Islamic Republic to immediately release Mr.Zaim and all other prisoners of conscience and observe the human rights of Iranian citizens in compliance with Iran’s obligations according to the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Right.
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