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IRAN NATIONAL FRONT

Founded by Doctor M. Mossaddegh

 (Organizatioans Abroad)

Press COMMUNIQUE

We Condemn the Hostage Taking by the Iranian Government

In the previous few days, media have reported the arrest of two German journalists in Iran. The main charge leveled against these journalists is that they interviewed the son of Ms. Sakineh Ashtiani who was sentenced to stoning. The arrested foreign nationals in the Islamic Republic are usually threatened with long prison sentences or executions. Usually the Islamic Republic arrests foreign nationals in order to use than as a tool to put pressure on their governments rather than for the punishment of a violation of the laws. The ruling regime in Iran wants to force the foreign governments to submit to its demands. According to its own judicial codes, the Islamic Republic provides the state a maximum of two months to evaluate an alleged violation of the law and decide whether or not to prosecute the accused. However, the government holds those who are arrested, especially foreign nationals, for prolonged time in order to extract advantageous price from the arrested -- or to use a more accurate termed “the hostages.” Last month, when one of the officials of the regime was asked why the other two American hikers were not released along with Ms. Sarah Shourd, the official said something to the effect that “if we release them, what will we get in return?”

The people and the governments of the United States, Germany, France, and other countries whose citizens are regarded as hostages of the regime ruling Iran, should distinguish the hostage-taking government of Iran from the people of Iran who strongly condemn the behaviour of the government in Iran. The people of Iran, themselves, are hostages of this government of terror and horror. For more than three decades, the regime of the Islamic Republic has used such tactics to grossly violate the basic rights and liberties of the Iranian people. The political prisoners in Iran do not even have the right to have lawyers. Those lawyers who under such harsh conditions stand up and defend the rights of the victims of this brutal dictatorship themselves become victims of this repressive regime. For example, few days, Ms. Nasreen Sutoodeh, Esq. and Mr. Mohammad Oliyaee-Far, Esq. two prominent defense attorneys of political prisoners, were themselves arrested and put in the prisons of the Islamic Republic. These prominent defense attorneys solely because of defending their clients, but are now themselves victims of the regime and have no other source to demand justice and due process.

The Organizations of Iran National Front-Abroad, which struggles for the establishment of freedom, democracy, and separation of religion and the state in Iran, strongly condemns the taking of foreign nationals as hostages by the government in Iran. We regard these hostage takings as severe violations of human rights and international law by the Islamic Republic regime. We demand from the international community that they express their solidarity with the Iranian people in their struggles to free themselves from this oppressive regime, which has repeatedly shown its utter disregard toward human rights and international norms of conduct. We demand from the international community to defend those who defend human rights, democracy, and freedom in Iran, and do not ignore those women and men who have placed their lives to defend the rights of their compatriots and have stood up against the repression and oppression in Iran and are currently in prisons and being tortured. We believe that the global community’s support for citizenship rights in Iran as well as condemnation of executions of political dissidents and stoning in Iran, are significant steps towards putting an end to this tyrannical regime.

 

Executive Committee of the Organizations of Iran National Front - Abroad
Engineer Kambiz Ghaemmagham, Engineer Bahman Mobasheri, Dr. Homayoun Mehmaneche
13 October, 2010

Contact Europe: Dr. Homayoun Mehmaneche, Tel. 00498974029525, Germany

Contact USA: Mr. Kambiz Ghaemmagham, Tel. 0019092449425, CA, USA

E-Mail Address: info@iranazad.info

Internet: www.iranazad.info

Address: Organizations of Iran National Front – Abroad (OINF-A); P.O. Box 136, Audubon Station, New York City, N. Y. 10032, USA

Original document in Farsi

 
 
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