Mr. Ebrahim Moini got freed from Naghadeh prison after 40 lashes
Urmu News (Translated by Oyrenci News): 
Mr. Ebrahim Moini got freed from Naghadeh prison after enduring 40 lashes.
He is civil engineer and is one of primitive Azerbaijan national movement activists in Naghadeh. He had been detained in demonstrations of Naghadeh people on 25 May, 2005 (in which 4 people were killed by police shoots) because of attending in demonstration, and got freed by paying pawn 2 months later. He had been arrested on early May 2006 before the anniversary of previous demonstration and was sentenced to 10 months jail as well as 40 lashes.
Hassan Aziz-zadeh, Azerbaijani activist, was condemned to three months jail
Savalan Sesi (Translated by Oyrenci):
Hassan Aziz-zadeh, Azerbaijani officer of Iranian police services, was condemned by the first military court of north-western city of Urmu (Oroumiyeh) to 3 months jail on charge of pan-Turkism and separation activities and propagation. From the other side he also was condemned to pay 500,000 Rials (about 60 USD) as a penalty on charge of watching satellite TV programs.
It is worthy to say that Mr. Aziz-zadeh had been arrested in April 2007 because of his national activities in Maku city and he had been deported from his job by Iranian police commission in the West Azerbaijan providence.
He was under torture of Iranian intelligence services and they tried to comply him for taking some lie confessions under intense spiritual and physical pressures.
Report of Mrs. Fakhte Zamani, head of association for defending Azerbaijan political prisoners, in Persian section of VOA TV
"Azerbaijani activists in Evin prison for giving false and fabricated confessions have been tortured."
Savalan Sesi (Translated By Oyrenci): news and comments- news program of Persian section of VOA (1/1/2008)
In recent days a number of Azerbaijani activists have been released on heavy bail. They were kept in solitary confinement and they say that in order to confess obligatorily they were under mental and physical pressures.
Mrs. Fakhte Zamani, head of association for defending Azerbaijan political prisoners, in an interview with VOA about recent situation of these prisoners has said:
We have received reports about recently released prisoners and also about families of other prisoners who are presently in jail. These reports indicate that all of prisoners have been kept in solitary confinements under severe and harsh physical and mental tortures.
Because of straight blows on the faces and mouths of the prisoners, tympanum of ear of one of them has been damaged and teeth of some of them have broken. However, they have high morale but mentally and physically have been severely offended. At present some of them are under treatment of medics. They also were under mental pressures, interrogators with their contemptuous behavior and words have insulted them, their families and Azerbaijan nation.
If possible please point to the situation of some of the prisoners.
Mr. Saleh Kamerani, lawyer and defender of human rights, after undergoing four months prison has been released, during this detention he was under repeated physical and mental tortures for about three weeks. His wife has been frequently threatened and even in his presence has been interrogated. Under these frequent tortures and after long term solitary confinement now he is under supervision of several specialists. Before detention he had heart disease that because of tortures it deteriorated. His lawyer, Mr. Riyahi, has not managed to study the case yet and he said although they have accused him verbally but nothing has been given in written form yet.
Mr. Engineer Abdollah Abbasi Javan, professor of Tehran universities, also after undergoing 4 months long prison has been released that about 80 days he was in solitary confinement. He was accused of acting against national security, and having relation with foreigners.
Mr. Mohammmad Nosrati, student of Ankara University, had been arrested in borderline while entering in Iran in order to visit his ill mother. He has recently set freed on bail.
Five Azerbaijani activists who have been released from Evin prison from beginning were under severe torture and offense of interrogators in order to make TV confessions.
How is the situation of some of other Azerbaijani prisoners who are in prison now?
At present, Mr. Saiid Matinpoor, Ali Reza Matinpoor, Jalil Ghaniloo, Behrooz Safari and his wife Leila Heidari are in very worrying situation un Evin prison. Among these situation of Mr. Saiid Matinpoor is the most critical. Despite of passage of more then seven months from their detention no clear information has been given about their accusation.
After seven months his wife has visited him and reported his physical condition as very weak and critical.
According to the statements of released prisoners, Mr. Saiid Matinpoor has been tortured more than others.
Mohammadreza Faghihi, attorney of Abbas Lisani: Mr. Lisani has been called to attend at Tabriz revolutionary court
Savalan Sesi:
Mohammadreza Faghihi, attorney of Abbas Lisani, Azerbaijani civil activist, announced that he has received subpoena asking Mr. Abbas Lisani to attend at revolutionary court of Tabriz on 20th January. This news announces in such a time that now Mr. Lisani is in Prison of north-western city of Ahar illegally.
According to the mentioned report, it is planned Mr. Lisani, Azerbaijani political activist, be trialed at court on charge of attendance in sepulcher of Sattarkhan on 5th August 2004.
Death Sentence in Iran Border of Wildness: Law Observer
11.01.08 11:00
Azerbaijan, Baku 10 January /corr. Trend D.Khatinoglu / The law observers are concerned with the implementation of the death sentence in Iran. “The death sentence in Iran, is the border of the wildness,” said the law observer Amirhossein Movahhedi, the Secretary General of Iran’s Crisis Committee. In the first days of 2008, the punishments began with regard to the13 people in Iran, BBC reports. In addition, the sentence was given by the Revolution Court to cut off the right arms and left legs of the five imprisoned people in Zahedan city. According to the unofficial information, the Iranian Court sentenced two people to be thrown off from the mountain. Movahhedi confirmed the implementation of the final sentence, in his conversation with Trend from Tabriz on 10 January. According to him, such a kind of punishment is inhuman. “The cases of human rights violations in Iran have reached to a critical point and the international organizations should give reaction to the official Tehran,” he said. Mohammadreza Fagihi, Iranian politician and lawyer, reported to Trend by telephone that the punishments ‘cutting off right arm and left leg’ and ‘throwing from the mountain’ found their reflections in the articles of the Criminal Code of Iran and is the Islamic measures in their kinds. “These kinds of punishments are applied to the people who opposes the Islamic religion and revolution,” Fagihi.
26 December 2007
Azerbaijani Iranian Activists Threatened (MP3)
Human rights monitors say a number of Azerbaijani-Iranian human rights activists remain imprisoned by the Iranian regime. Fakhteh Zamani is Director of the Association for the Defense of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran. She says Abbas Lisani [ah-bahs lih-sahn-ee] is one of them:
“Abbas Lisani, a prominent Azerbaijani-Iranian activist, has been in Ardibil prison since 2006. In addition to a sentence of fifty lashes, he has been given an additional sentence of twelve months to be served in Ahar prison. He has written several open letters, protesting unlawful treatment by prison officials and the violation of his rights and those of other Azerbaijani-Iranian human rights activists.”
Mr. Lisani has conducted several lengthy hunger strikes to protest mistreatment by Iranian authorities. Ms. Zamani says his life is in danger:
“As a result of hunger strikes and torture, he is suffering from a number of medical problems. We have reports that the torture he is receiving from prison authorities exceeds even the brutality of flogging, which is common in Iran.”
Other Azerbaijani-Iranians imprisoned for human rights activities include Behruz Seferi and his wife Leyla; Sa’id Metinpour and his brother Elirza; Ilqar Merendli, Jelil Qenilu, Mehemmed Nusreti, Mir Qasim Seyyendinzadeh, and Ebdullah Abbassi Javan. Relatives of Sa’id Metinpour and Ebdullah Javan say both men are in poor health because of ill-treatment.
Human rights lawyer Saleh Kamrani is still being held in Evin prison. The human rights monitoring group Amnesty International says that Mr. Kamrani was “detained solely in connection with his activities as a lawyer defending Iranian Azerbaijanis and others and for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression and association in support of greater rights for the Iranian-Azerbaijani community.”
Earlier this year, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack reaffirmed the U.S. call for the Iranian government “to cease the systematic oppression of its citizens, respect the human rights of all Iranian people and to release those arrested and imprisoned for insisting on their universal rights.”
http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2007-12-26-voa4.cfm
Changiz Bakhtavar, Azerbaijani Proletarian and national activist, was recognized innocent in Tabriz
Oyrenci News:
Finally, Houshang Gharebaghi and Hosein Hafezan, counsellors in the 7th branch of East Azerbaijan^s revision court, recognized Mr. Changiz Bakhavar, Azerbaijani Proletarian and national activist, as innocent. It is worthy to say that Mr. Bakhtavar has been arrested and jailed several times on charge of unproved charges. Attorney of Mr. Changiz Bakhtavar was Mr. Hassan Azimzadeh, one of the most repute attorneys in north-western city of Tabriz.
Saiid Matinpoor undergoes very critical conditions.
Oyrenci:
Said Matinpoor, human rights activist and activist against linguistic and ethnical discrimination of Azerbaijan, spends very miserable and hard time.
It is more than seven monthes that Said Matinpoor, a blogger and collaborator of Azerbaijan local newspapers and magazines, is in solitary confinement and under torture. Regime^s security forces try to break tolerance and resistance of Said Matinpoor and take him before TV screen to confess to an uncommitted and ascribed and claimed crime. Following failures of security forces in suppressing Azerbaijan National Movement, these forces try to force Said Matinpoor to artificial and forged confessions and through broadcasting that connect antidiscrimination Movement of Azerbaijan, which entered a new phase since may 2006, to foreign countries and pave the way for wide suppression and detention of Azerbaijan civil and cultural activists.
Although some of Azerbaijan activists released last week some of bails so high that prisoners families faced numerous problems in providing bail and they have been forced to supply these huge sums with assistance of relatives and friends. For instance, in order to release saleh kamerani, first-ranking lawyer and human right activist, regime has determined 150 millions tumans as bail. According to the statements of activists and analysts of Azerbaijan political and national issues regime intends to suppress theoreticians and activists of Azerbaijan National Movement with determining huge sums of bail.
Furthermore, makes attempts with determination of uncustomary punishments weaken and break the spirit and humiliate Azerbaijani activists. Abbas Lesani, poet, writer and civil activist of Azerbaijan, despite being imprisoned has been sentenced to 50 lashes. Although according to the court verdict Abbas must be freed immediately after completing the period of conviction, it is predicted that Revolution Court of Ahar (a city east Azerbaijan) will put forward a new case to prevent Abbas Lesani from being released.
At the moment, tens of Azerbaijani student and national activists are in jails or they are awaiting court orders, in a way that within six days six national activists have been summoned to Revolution Court.
It is necessary that human rights activists without any discrimination among human and political activists in Iran and in coordination with Azerbaijani human rights activists take suitable measures to set these prisoners free.
Ehsan Tabrizli- Azerbaijan student activist.
Mr. Abbas Lisani^s jail will finish on 31 December 2007
In a telephone call with Hassan Ark, journalist in Tabriz, Abbas Lisani congratulated Ghadir anniversary to Azerbaijan nation and informed Mr. Hasani that his 18 months jailings will finished on 31th December 2007.
Mr. Hasan Arak in an interview with Azgala internet site said: Now it is 18 months that Mr. Lisani, Azerbaijani warrior, is in prison. He added: from our viewpoint Mr. Lisani is innocent and his real charge is defiant Azerbaijanis rights. According to his method, Mr. Lisani tries hard to defy these rights.
Mr. Ark also said: Mr. Lisani also has been condemned to 50 strikes lash and it is scheduled to be done on 31th December. Mr. Lisani also has said to Mr. Arak that he will resist against this sentence and Iranian official maybe run this savage sentence on him by force. Mr. Lisani has pointed that this sentence is apparent scorn of humankind in the modern era we live.
From Mr. Lisani^s view, all of sentences, especially lashing, against Azerbaijani Turks are illegal, tyrannous and scornful.
Mr. Ark added: there are other sentences against Mr. Lisani, but none of them has been approved yet. We hope revision court resist against Iranian anti-Turk chauvinists and judge with justice. We hope Iranian official free him tomorrow and allow him to come back to his nation and family.
Mr. Ark emphasized that with regard to reality that his jailing time will finish tomorrow, so keeping him in prison is tyrannous and illegal.
Hasan Asadi^s family is under pressure of Iranian intelligent services (Ettelat)
Friday, December-28-07
Savalan Sasi:
Acording to the received news from north-western city of Tabriz, family and spouse of Mr. Hasan Asadi, Azerbaijani activist from Tabriz, are under intense pressure by Iranian intelligent services (Ettelat).
According to the mentioned report, Iranian intelligent services have referred to Hassan Asadi^s home to arrest him, but after they found he is not at home, they threatened his family and spouse with intensified scorns.
His detention after pawn issuance and without any official subpoena is illegal and reversal of the provisions.
It is worthy to note that Mr. Hasan Asadi had been arrested on 9th February 2006 in a demonstration against Abbas Lisani jailing and torture in front of Ardabil prison, then he had passed 5 months in detention at Ettelat prison located in Ardabil and Tabriz. He had been sentenced to be member of South Azerbaijan independence Party (GAIP) and he had been freed with 70 Million Tomans (About 70 thousands USD) as a guaranty.
Ebrahim Jafarzadeh^s condemnation to jail and Exile was approved
Reconsideration court of western Azerbaijan province approved Ebrahim Jafarzadeh^s condemnation to one year jail and two years exile.
Seyyed MohammadReza Faghihi, attorney of Mr. Jafarzadeh, announced this news and added: My client had been condemned to 1 year jail and 2 years exile on charge of propagation against Iranian government. We asked for reconsideration on this sentence, but our request was rejected by reconsideration court of the western Azerbaijan province and they approved the mentioned sentence.
He added: My client had been detained in one of the Khoy^s streets on world mother day. Firstly, official said that his charge is racial, but they changed my client^s charge later and announced that his charge was propagation against Iranian government.
Mr. Faghihi said also that: we will try to ask again reconsideration on this sentence.
Moral Pressure Put on Arrested National Azerbaijani Activists in Iran: Law Observer
25.12.07 20:18
According to the information provided by the Committee for Protection of the Rights of Political Prisoners, the family of the arrested national activist of South Azerbaijan, Abdulla Abbasi, paid more than $80,000 to the court as security to free Abbasi, but the activist has not been released yet. The punishment of other national activist, Abbas Lisani, who was sentenced to 50 blows of lash, was postponed up to new year. Many national activists in Iran incur physical tortures, the Secretary General of the Committee, Javanbekht, reported to Trend during conversation from Ankara on 25 December. “50 blows of lash to Lisani in new year is the small part of the pressure put on him and his family,” Javanbekht said. Since 2006 Lisani has been detained in prison in Iran’s city of Ardebil, with accusations of breaking national security. In addition, Lisani’s former lawyer Saleh Kamrani was arrested. Amnesty International stated in its final report that the lawyer was arrested for protecting national activists. The Amnesty International condemned the pressure on the national activists in Iran. Lisani’s spouse reported to Trend by telephone from Iran that the punishment to Abbas is of inhuman character. “Abbas has been detained in prison since 2006 for his national-cultural activities and will stay there for one more year. Official Tehran repeatedly tried to prolong the period of his arrest. Lisani was sentenced to the fine, punishment with lash and currently efforts are being made to prolong the period of his arrest with new accusations,” she said. According to unofficial information, 35mln Azerbaijanis reside in Iran. 
Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend D.Khatinoglu / Moral pressure is being put on the arrested national Azerbaijani activists in Iran, said the Iranian law observer, Alirza Javanbekht , who is working in Turkey.
AFTER COUPLE OF MONTHS, 3 AZERBAIJANI ACTIVISTS FREED FROM EVIN PRISON
Savalan Sesi:
Saleh Kamrani, human right activist and repute attorney, and Mirghasem Seyyedinzadeh, former student activists and Azerbaijani journalist, were freed yesterday from Evin prison of Tehran with 10 Million and 40 million pawn respectively.
Saleh Kamrani and Mirghasem Seyyedinzadeh were detained on 18th August and 2nd of November respectively and have been kept in Evin prison.
Both of them passed almost all of their detention in sporadic cells of number 209 where they were there under direct and continuous supervision of Iranian intelligent services.
They were not allowed access to the attorney in their detention period.
From the other side, Mohammad Nosrati, master student of Ankara University, whom had been detained in early October in his entrance to Iran from Turkey, has been freed.
6 Azerbaijani national activists were called to revolutionary court of Tabriz
Savalan Sesi:
According to the received news from north-western city of Tabriz, 6 Azerbaijani national activists have been called to the revolutionary court. List of the people mentioned in this report:
1- Taher Mahdavi Chizigh. Jailed on 4th April 2007 and freed on 7th May 2007
2- Yousef Lotfi. Jailed on 10th March 2006 and freed on 19th April 2007
3- Khosro derakhshi. Jailed 4th april 2007 and freed 7th May 2007
4- Mohammad Ali Javadi. Jailed on 5th April 2007 and freed on 6th May 2007
5- Mehdi Afsari. Jailed on 10th March 2006 and freed on 19th April 2007
6- Javad Kanani. Jailed on 24th April 2007 and freed on 27 May 2007
Official have asked from the above mentioned activists to attend in revolutionary court of Tabriz on 13 January 2008. These people have been condemned on charge of membership in south Azerbaijan independence party (GAIP) and all of them had been jailed in the last year and passed about 1 month in prison and had been freed with 40 Million Tomans (About 40 thousands USD) pawn.
Iran: Arrest of journalist and human rights defender Yaghoub Saleki Niya
Front Line is deeply concerned following the arrest of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Yaghoub Saleki Niya (also known as Ilqar Merendli) at his home in Tehran on 31 October 2007. Yaghoub Saleki Niya is one of the founders of the Committee for the Defence of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners (ASMEK). He also writes for a number of banned blogs.
Further Information
Posted 21/12/2007 On 31 October 2007, at approximately 7.00pm, officials from the Etelaat security service arrived at Yaghoub Saleki Niya's home and proceeded to search it for two hours. The officials arrested Yaghoub Saleki Niya and removed his books, camera and papers. He was taken to Evin prison in Tehran, where his wife was allowed to visit him on 5 November, on condition that his arrest and detention were not spoken about. On 10 November 2007, Yaghoub Saleki Niya's home was searched by security services for a second time and personal items were taken. Yaghoub Saleki Niya is currently detained without access to legal representation.
Yaghoub Saleki Niya has not been formally charged with any offence and the reason for his arrest remains unknown, yet Front Line believes that it is directly related to his contributions to media sites and activities in defence of human rights. He was previously arrested on 22 April 2004, when he enquired after a detained female Azerbaijani human rights defender, and was detained and interrogated for six days, after which he was released but called in for questioning. Since that time, he has been threatened by authorities and warned not to participate in any activities related to non-governmental organisations. Since 2004, Yaghoub Saleki Niya has been questioned at regular intervals.
Front Line fears for the safety of Yaghoub Saleki Niya and believes that his arrest may form part of an ongoing campaign against journalists and human rights defenders in Iran. There are currently ten journalists imprisoned in Iran. The Authorisation and Surveillance Commission has shut down a number of Azerbaijani independent publications including Dilmanj, a monthly newsletter that Yaghoub Saleki Niya wrote for. The focus of its next edition was to be Democracy and Azerbaijan but its publication was halted by the authorities on 25 September 2007.
On 25 October 2007, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the situation of human rights in Iran, recognising that “the situation in the Islamic Republic in relation to civil rights and political freedoms has deteriorated in the last two years.” The European Parliament also called for the “unconditional release of prisoners of conscience, particularly journalists.”
http://frontlinedefenders.org/node/1310
Jalil Ghanilou and Saeid Matinpour, 2 Azerbaijani activists, among 12 detained journalists in Iran
Saeed Metinpour, Yarpagh
IMPRISONED: May 25, 2007
The Committee to Defend Azerbaijan’s Political Prisoners (ASMEK) reported that authorities seized Metinpour, 32, an editor for the Azeri-language weekly Yarpagh, and his wife, Atiyeh Taheri, in the northwestern city of Zanjan. They jailed Metinpour, transported his wife home, and searched the couple’s property. The officers confiscated Metinpour’s personal computer, books, and other personal belongings. They cut the telephone lines and warned Taheri not to tell anyone about the incident.
The charges against Metinpour remained undisclosed. Defense attorney Mahmoud Faghihi was denied access to his client beginning in October.
Metinpour, who contributed to the daily Mardom-e No and other local papers, frequently criticized Iran’s social and political system and the regime’s harsh treatment of Azerbaijani activists. In his last piece before his arrest, he described Iranian police carrying out missions for the Security and Intelligence Ministry. Local journalists who spoke with CPJ said they believed his articles were behind his imprisonment.
Authorities have transferred Metinpour among several jails, including Tehran’s Evin prison, ASMEK reported. Taheri was able to speak with him a few times by phone for short periods, ASMEK reported. The journalist’s mother was allowed to visit him once.
Metinpour was previously arrested on February 21 along with other Azerbaijani journalists during a protest in Zanjan on International Mother Language Day. They had been demonstrating against government restrictions that prohibited them from writing and publishing Azeri-language material. Metinpour was released on bail after 10 days in solitary confinement, ASMEK reported.
Jelil Ghanilou, freelance
IMPRISONED: June 27, 2007
Security officials seized Ghanilou, 30, from his home in Zanjan, the capital of northwestern Zanjan province, on June 27, his brother, Tavakol Ghanilou, told CPJ. They held Ghanilou for nearly four months at the Ministry of Intelligence and Security jail in Zanjan before transferring him on October 21 to another prison, Tavakol Ghanilou said.
Ghanilou had not been tried when CPJ conducted its December 1 census, and the charges against him had not been disclosed. Tavakol Ghanilou told CPJ that he believed Ghanilou’s articles about the civil and cultural rights of Iran’s ethnic Azerbaijani minority were behind his current detention.
Authorities had arrested Ghanilou earlier in the year as well. On February 21, he was seized while attending a protest in Zanjan organized by Azeri journalists and cultural activists for International Mother Language Day. They were demonstrating against government restrictions prohibiting them from writing and publishing material in their native language. He was released on bail after spending 26 days in solitary confinement. Tavakol Ghanilou told Advar News, which is affiliated with the Office for Fostering Unity, a pro-reform student organization, that Ghanilou was subjected to physical and psychological torture during that detention. That case remained pending in late year, Tavakol Ghanilou told CPJ.
Ghanilou worked as a freelancer for several local newspapers, including the daily Mardom-e No, the weekly Farday-e Roushan, the now-defunct weekly Omid-e Zanjan, and the monthly magazine Payk-e Azerbaijan, according to Alireza Javanbakht, spokesman for the Committee to Defend Azerbaijan’s Political Prisoners.
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2007/imprisoned_07/imprisoned_list_07.html#iran
An article of Mrs. Atiyye Taheri in defense of his husband Mr. Saiid Matinpour
Whereas more than 200 days have passed since solitary detention of Mr. Saiid Matinpour, Azerbaijan nationalist human rights activist, his wife Mrs. Atiyye Taheri in an article protested to violation of citizenship rights of him.
Advar news: according to the constitution of the Islamic republic of Iran an accused without understanding of accusation can be kept in detention only for a night and day, whereas my husband Mr. Saiid Matinpour has passed 200 th day of solitary confinement alongside severe and harsh tortures which aimed at compulsory confession to an uncommitted crime. Hajjis who have not circumambulated trample all the norms and principles of the constitution and all the human and ethical rules in Saiid^s case.
I am surprised why no voice of protest is raised. Unfortunately enlightenment movements and political parties in Iran several steps are distant from identity seeking movements like movements of women, ethnic groups, workers and …. . If authoritarian state frequently translates democracy seeking of intellectuals and politicians to unrestrainedness, then by the same motivation they will charge women movement with propagation of polygamy and labor movement with Marxist intentions and ethnicities movement with secession.
Defective and venomous and immature mentality of the pretenders of reformism has caused to their silence against the most repugnant oppressions and injustice and by this action they support violators of human rights. Secretary of the most pompous political party without any mental disturbance toward chaotic and worrying conditions of the ever increasing number of political and belief prisoners and wide and unprecedented human rights violations, perpetually observes ballot –boxes and the most serious speech of him makes any body ashamed: " with each new position of Ahmadinejad, Iranian president, votes of reformists increases." I blame myself that why we were so naïve and simple-hearted when we believed their words and bestowed our confidence upon them!!?
You gave cloth to a foreigner to darn holes. Fie upon darner, holes multiplied!
Most of the human rights defenders in Iran defend rights of those people that in return are advantageous to them, but defending the rights of those associated with identity seeking movements which indeed is the pure meaning of human right, has no place in the program of the most defenders of the freedom of expression and entire reformists.
For such action and measure one should completely understand identity seeking movement and also have pure and perfect belief in defense of human rights. But such people are immaculate and at the same time rare in a time that innocent and fair-playing persons like Mrs. Maryam Hoseinkhoh, Mrs. Jelve Javaheri, Mr. Mansoor Osanloo, Madadi, Mrs. Leila Heydari, Mr. Abdollah Abbasi, Mr. Behrooz Safari, Mr. Jalil Ghaniloo, Mr. Alireza Matinpour, Mr. Abbas Lesani and…just because of pondering into roots are kept in solitary confinement with severe and harsh mental and physical tortures and authorities force them to record a film in which they have confessed to an uncommitted crime. With tolerating the most shameless oppressions and persecutions in prison and like Abdollah Momeni (a political prisoner who died several years ago in Evin prison) with sincere defense of human rights they irrigate out of breath and weak roots of the humanity tree hoping that it will regain life.
Peace and praise to these lovesick heroes.
O^god it is 200th day that my husband Saiid is in solitary confinement, he is tortured, suffers sleeplessness, humiliated, does not see sun, is forced to confess to an uncommitted crime, record an ordered film,…it is 200 th day that I am unaware of him I do not know how he is treated, I do not know what they want.
O^god keep him safe and witness ethnical loneliness and shelterlessness and indifference and winter sleep and consciencelessness of other ethnical groups.
I have steadfast belief in that: Any imprisoned eventually will be released and his or her injuries will be healed.
Mrs. Atiyye Taheri (Saiid Matinpour^s wife)
Elyaz Yekanli and Ali Shadi, two Azerbaijani national activists, were freed from apartheid prison
Oyrenci News:
Milli-Shura’s internet site announced that two Azerbaijani national activists, Elyaz yekanli and Ali Shadi, freed from apartheid prison.
Milli-Shura added: Elyaz Yehanli, one of the long-term prisoners activists of the Azerbaijan national movement, was freed from apartheid prison in north-western city of Urmu (Oroumiyeh). He have high moral and shortly after his freedom attended in a ceremony on memorial of the 21-Azar, and announced that prison and torture will not able to alter Azerbaijanis intention to achieve their civil wantings.
Also, Milli-Shura says: Ali Shadi, one of the resistant Azerbaijani activists that he was kidnapped in 2007 May demonstrations in Tabriz and was jailed, freed in north-western city of Sarab after tolerating 27 days jail, but judge has condemned him to added 3 months jail and 50 strokes lash, but this sentence has not yet approved. It is worthy to say that he had been jailed for 6 months before on charge of national activities.
Azerbaijani student movement congratulate their freedom and hope to free other Azerbaijani national prisoners as soon as possible.
Disciplinary sentence to inform student after 3 semesters, in university of Urmia
Oyrencinews:
Yashar Shanli, Chemistry student in university of Urmia, poet and student activist, who has been sentenced to prevention from education for one term because of reading a poem in ceremony of “Night of Poem” in first semester of last academic year, and was prevented from education in last term, The disciplinary committee informed his sentence after 3 semesters.
In recent sentence, Shanli was convicted because of “insulting national unification” and “propagation of Ataturk’s beliefs”. He has been sentenced prevention from education for 1 term, which was suspended and written notification to record in his file.
Mohammad-Reza Avaz-Pour, 16 years old Azerbaijani student, was condemned to 9 months jail
Urmu-News: (13th December 2007)
Mohammad-Reza Avaz-Pour, 16 years old student from Tabriz city, was condemned to 5 months jail by the 118th branch of Iranian courts in Tabriz (Judge Niyakar) on charge of membership in anti-national security groups. Mr. Avaz-pour had been condemned to 4 months jail in other case, so with the new case he must spend 9 months in jail. Mohammd-Reza Avaz-Pour had been arrested on May 2007 by Basij forces and spent 40 days in detention and freed with pawn from Tabriz prison. He also had detained twice in other cases in accompany of his brothers, Mostafa and Morteza.
Amnesty international organization has announced in a report on May 2006 that: Mostafa and Mohammad-Reza detention was because of some chants writing, for example, “I am not Persian, I am Turk and my language is Turkish” on city walls. Also it comes in this report that according to what Mohammad-Reza has said, he has been tortured in his detention and even he hanged by his legs for 24 hours and interrogated. In this period he has not received any food and water and also he was not allowed to go washroom.
