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.
