Free
Azita
Help
To Free Azita Shafagghat &
Her
Husband Ahmad-Reza Shafaggat
from the Turkish prison.
.
Turkish
authorities are about to
send them to Iran.
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Azita and
Ahmad-Reza must not be returned to Iran.
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Azita & Ahmad-Reza Shafaggat were two Iranian
student
activists. In 1999, they were arrested
for their opposition to
the Mullahs regime and were subjected to all
kinds of
physical and psychological torture in
RAJAYI-SHAHR
PRISON,
west of Tehran. After escaping Mullahs prison,
Azita and her husband spent 4 years in
hiding until May,
2006, when they managed to escape from
Iran.
After a difficult and arduous journey on foot
through Iraq
and Turkey and on their way to be reunited with
their
familles in Greece, on June 18th, 2006,
the Greek border
police spotted Azita, her husband and 10
other would be
Iranian refugees in woods close to the Turkish
border.
Before they were returned to Turkey, Azita, her
husband
Ahmad-Reza and other Iranians were beaten up by
the
Greek arresting officers in the most appalling
way.
While in their custody, (48 hours),
the Greek officers
denied food or medical attention. They also
refused to
process their application for asylum or
investigate their
background as why they had to escape from Iran.
It is understood that the Greek border Guards
routinely
hands over the asylum seekers to the Turkish
authorities
and the Turkish Government is not only
notorious for
their mistreatment of the asylum seekers but
they are
known for regularly sending the refugees back
to Iran.
Ever since June 18th, 2006, Azita and
Ahmad-Reza and
10 other Iranian political activists are
imprisoned under
the most applying conditions in turkish prison
pending
deportation to Iran.
I have spoken to Azita in prison and according
to her
testimonies, The Turkish prison lacks the most
basic necessities. There is no hygiene and adequate clothing.
They sleep on floors with no bedding. They are
denied
basic food and there is no access to day light
and fresh
air and sanitation. The prisoners are subjected
to daily
physical punishment and they are beaten up
daily which
is routine in that environment.
Azita and her husband are in
detention at:
YABANJI YINI EMARAT
FACILITY in EDIRNEH
which is a
Turkish border town close to Bulgaria.
Both Azita and Ahmad-Reza endured physical as
well as psychological torture while in Mullah's prison. Azita who
is 27, is
currently suffering from dislocated knees due to
been tortured, kicked and beaten by the Iranian
revolutionary Guards while in
RAJAYI-SHAHR PRISON.
Apart from been an active
members of the student
movements of 1999, both
Azita and Ahmad-Reza were
converted to
Christianity which under the current
Islamic
law in Iran, is
punishable by death.
Azita and her husband and 10 other
Iranians are due to
be handed over to the Mullahs regime and we
must do
everything in our power to prevent this.
Azita's father who was an officer of the
'Iranian Imperial
Guards' was also imprisoned for several
years, tortured
and condemned to death by the Mullahs but
managed
to escape Iran recently.
Please write to Miss.
Louise Arbour of the 'United
Nations
High Commissioner form
Human Rights' at:
to register your concern.
Also contact the
'Human rights watch' in New York at:
00 1212 216 1233
Please forward this information to any human
rights
organisations, local tv, media and press
offices in the
country of your residence and abroad. Please
circulate
this amongst your list.
Azita and Ahmad-Reza
must not
be returned to Iran.
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