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TO ALL FREEDOM-LOVING PEOPLE, AND TO ALL LABOUR, STUDENT, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE WORLD As you may be informed, in a pre-emptive attack on independent student organizations the Islamic regime in Iran arrested dozens of politically active students prior to the Student’s Day (December 7), practically a day of protest against the status quo during decades of student struggles. However, despite the said arrests, the students celebrated their day by holding protest actions in different forms on a national level. In the course of those actions more students were arrested. At present there are forty-odd student activists from various parts of the country held in detention in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, as well as in other known and unknown places across the country. The detained students have been subjected to torture and cruel treatment. The news of torture has gravely alarmed their families and the people at large. The trumped-up charges brought against the students have aggravated the widespread concerns for their lives. Among other things, the Ministry of Intelligence has released a communiqué with regards to the Leftist students claiming that “the troublemakers had already obtained slingshots, collected rocks, and made sonic hand grenades” or “the detainees were found in possession of a considerable amount of alcoholic beverages, immoral literature, heretical books, and leaflets with sacrilegious content.” Also, the state-run Raja-news website has published reports stating “following extensive nation-wide investigations of the universities, the core communist cell, with connections abroad (read: connections with opposition organizations abroad), has been discovered and arrested. The said communist cell plotted to raise riots at universities on December the 7th through violent provocations, using incendiary devices such as Molotov cocktails and hand grenades ... etc.” The fake and fabricated nature of such reports is obvious to all. However, these are heavy accusations used by the regime throughout its 30-year-long existence to line up thousands of freedom-seeking people against its firing squads. Today, it resorts to the same accusations against the students. This has, naturally, caused grave worries for the lives of the detained students among their families and the people at large. We simply have to thwart this conspiracy of the régime and free the imprisoned students by means of our international solidarity. There is presently a massive protest movement underway for the release of the students at family, university, and town levels in various parts of Iran. However, what is needed for a powerful fight for their immediate and unconditional release, as well as the release of all other political prisoners in Iran, is an extended global solidarity. We, therefore, call upon all individuals, institutions and organizations defending human rights to join our international campaign for the release of the recently arrested students and all other political prisoners languishing in the dungeons of the Islamic regime in Iran. It should also be noted here that besides the detained students a large number of labor activists - among them the internationally well-known Mahmud Saalehi, Mansur Osaanlou and Ebraahim Madadi - as well scores of women who have resisted the regime’s current wave of mass intimidation on the pretext implementing its Hijab and other Islamic codes are in jail too. An immediate demand of Iranian people is the unconditional release of the recently arrested students, as well as all other political prisoners. Lend them your extensive international support so that they can open the prison gates, release their political prisoners, and take their just struggles against the barbaric Islamic regime one step further. 1- Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Iran Contact: Shahla Daneshfar shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com 2- International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran Contact: Bahraam Soroush bahram.soroush@googlemail.com 3- "Equal Rights Now" An Organization for Women`s Rights – Iran Contact: Mahin Alipour mahin_alipour@yahoo.se 4- International Federation of Iranian Refugees Contact: Farshad Hoseini farshadhoseini@yahoo.com 5- International Committee against Execution Contact: Mina Ahadi minaahadi@aol.com 6- International Committee against Stoning Contact: Mina Ahadi minaahadi@aol.com December 17, 2007 Endorsed by: 1- Iran Civil Rights Committee Contact: Susan Ahmadi irancrc@yahoo.ca 2- Kaanoon Khaavaraan - Organization for Defense of Political Prisoners Contact: Babak Yazdi babakyazdi@yahoo.com 3- Communist Youth Organisation Contact: Navid Minaee navidminay@gmail.com Please send your protest letters to: Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Seyed
Ali Khamenei Islamic Republic Street Shahid Keshvar
Doust Street
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection Tehran, Iran
The Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroudi |