To: His Excellency Ban ki-mon, Secretary
General of United Nations
CC:
Her Excellency Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights
Dr. Ahmad
Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur for
Human Rights in Iran
The mothers
of four Arab minority young men, who are sentenced to hang after unfair trials
in Iran, are seeking for justice and asking the whole world and International
Organizations to be heard and stop the execution of their children:
We are the
mothers of Ghazi Abbasi (son of Ahmad and born on 1982),
Abdolreza Amir-Fanakhereh (son of Younes and born on 1987), Abdolamir Majdami (
son of Hooshang and born on 1970) and Jassem Moghadam-Panah ( son of Saied and
born on 1985); who have been accused
of "Enmity against God and spreading
corruption on earth".
After
four years of anxiously waiting with tears in our eyes, last week we received
the news of the affirmation of the death sentences, previously issued for our
four young sons.
From the moment of their arrest till the day of their
show trial, we were kept in the dark about their extreme psychological and
physical tortures and the security office of the city of Ahvaz denied us any
news about them. They were forced to confess to the crimes they had not committed.
The confessions were written by special agents in a language that in not their
mother tongue.
Four years ago, the security agents broke into our
homes, which are in a remote and poor section of Shadegan, and in front of our
eyes, covered our sons’ heads with bags and took them to an unknown location.
After months of being kept in secret and years of imprisonment, they were
charged with bogus accusations on the base of shaky and unreliable evidence.
The security forces fabricated accusations and charged them with them with
these accusations, for the sole purpose of matching the punishment for these
crimes under the law and then send their cases to shameless judges, Ali
Farhadvand (first division of the revolutionary court of Ahvaz) and later to
Reza Farajollahi (thirty second division of the supreme court). These puppet
judges in turn, in a brief show trial, condemned our sons to the death machine
of the Islamic Republic.
Everybody,
especially human rights activists, know that our beloved sons are going to be
hanged in a country that public hanging from cranes is a common practice and
has the highest number of executions in the world after China. Our sons‘only
crime is participation in poetry nights which are meant to preserve Arabic,
their mother tongue.
We,
the four mothers, who have suffered four years of sleepless nights and other
miseries alongside our husbands and other children, are praying for our own
deaths before witnessing our sons’ executions. Like all other mothers in the
world, we believe that it is better for us to die before receiving the news of
our children’s execution.
By
this letter, we ask the whole world, especially all the mothers who understand
the love of one’s child, for help and assistant in saving the lives of our
beloved children. We are asking all international organizations to try to
prevent the execution of our sons and we thank you for that.
Shadegan,
The mothers of the four young men waiting
for execution
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