His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary-General
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Fax: (212) 963-4879
Phone: (212) 963-4475

December 23, 2007

Dear Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moo,

I trust you are aware that Islamic of Republic of Iran continues to suppress the people’s struggles for their inalienable rights. A recent moment of such suppression has been the arrest and incarceration of dozens of university students both in the course of their organizational efforts to hold The Student Day (December 7) and in the wake of their courageously holding it despite the state’s persecutions, arrests, and even kidnappings. Now, the widespread news of torture, cruel and degrading treatment of the detainees, and even denying them the right to meet with their families and lawyers, has created a most severe situation for the families as well as the people at large which has gravely alarmed both. Besides, the Ministry of Intelligence has just recently made such allegations against the detained students whose fake and fabricated character is obvious not only to Iranian people but to any one only slightly acquainted with the Islamic state. All of this is occurring, however, within the context of an ongoing reign of terror caused and indicated by a drastic increase of executions, harsher persecution of women for not capitulating to inhuman or degrading rules and regulations, suppression of workers struggles and constant persecution and imprisonment of their leaders, heavy prison and other sentences for demonstrating and striking teachers seeking better life conditions, and so on, and so forth.

Under such circumstances, it is only natural to expect UN, and Your Excellency personally, to react against such practices, condemn the Islamic Republic for its atrocities, and demand the immediate cession of the systematic use of torture in the case of the recently arrested students as well as all political prisoners languishing in the dungeons of the regime. So far, the student community in Iran, their families, and scores of organizations, institutions, as well as the European Union, have condemned the Islamic Republic, and demanded the release of the students and all other political prisoners. We certainly hope that UN will take an active, urgent step along the same path.

I thank you very much in advance for your sympathetic and expeditious co-operation in these matters of life and death.

Respectfully yours,

Asghar Karimi

For Worker-communist Party of Iran