- Target:
- Amnesty ,Ahmed Shaheed, UN, State Department, EU, Navi Pillay, Ban Ki-Moon, European Parliament
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
Anwar Hossein Panahi is now FREE
An Open letter From the Family of Anvar Hussein Panahi to Dr. Shaheed
TUESDAY, 06 DECEMBER 2011;
http://www.en-hrana.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=588%3Aan-open-letter-from-the-family-of-anvar-hussein-panahi-to-dr-shaheed&catid=2%3Astatements&Itemid=4
Anwar Hossein Panahi is a Kurdish political activist who has been sentenced to death by the revolutionary court. After protests from human rights organizations, his sentence was changed to 16 years of detention.
Therefore, his brother Ashraf Hossein Panahi tried to prove Anwar’s innocence. Two years ago, he set off to Teheran with a petition signed by 5000 people and on the way he was killed in a false accident.
Due to the protests against Anwar’s verdict, the other brother Afshin Hossein Panahi has also been arrested and sentenced to one year of prison in the city of Ghorveh, where he is still held in custody. According to family members he has lost 50% of his sight in the prison of Ghorveh because of torture.
On November 6th 2007 Anwar Hossein Panahi has been arrested and spent the following 6 months left in complete ignorance about the charges. One of the fellow inmates reports that Anwar Hossein Panahi had been tied naked to an iron pole in the middle of winter after having had broken a rib and suffered from inflammation of one kidney. After a certain amount of time he lost his conscience and was brought back to his cell. According to his fellow convict this torture was repeated several times a month.
In accordance with his lawyers Anwar Panahi has not commited any crime that would justify keeping him in prison for even one day.
In accordance with his lawyers Anwar Panahi has not commited any crime that would justify keeping him in prison for even one day.
Anwar Hossein Panahi is a civil rights activist and the confidant of the farmers in the Dehgolan region. He has also established a program for drug addicts, that is being practiced in the Sanandaj prison. The prisoners can attend courses, which should prevent drugs from spreading in jail. Over 200 convicts participate in his program. Because of this Anwar Panahi is often not allowed to receive visitors; a week ago he was not permitted to see his family.
The Committee of Human Rights Reporters strongly disapproves of such a treatment of convicts and demands the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners.
From ParsDaliNews
http://parsdailynews.com/80236.htm
Letter from
Anwar Hossein Panahi’s Children Ask for Support for Their Father
The children of Anwar Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish civil rights activist who has been in prison for years, have written a letter to the international human rights organizations asking for help.
Mahtab’s (daughter 15 years old), Milad’s (son, 12 years old) and Mahshid’s (daughter, 6 years old) letter:
Everybody knows that our father is being held in prison without any evident reasons for 4 years. In these 4 years our family has been put under pressure by many occurrences, such as the death of one of our uncles, the arrest of our other uncle and many other problems that have been caused for us.
Our father had been suffering from inflammation of one kidney as well as bleeding in this area. The prison doctor told him that he needed to go to the hospital and be treated there. His application for a leave of absence to be hospitalized was not granted. After some human rights organizations protested, our father was brought to the hospital and received basic treatment.
Our Mother is also very sick and needs to go to the hospital sometimes because of her illness. But she taught us to have endurance and she reminds us that our father is in prison because of his fight for justice.
Over 4 years we have been denied our father and his love. For over 4 years we have been looking up this high and cold wall waiting and hoping that our father dreams of us on the other side of this wall.
We heard that the 30th of Khordad is the international day of political prisoners. Due to this we, the children of Anwar Hossein Panahi, ask for the help and support of every individual that stands up for human rights and loves man.
We need everybody’s help to free our father and have him back in our family.
Mahtab, Milad and Mahshid, the children of Anwar Hossein Panahi
1) We the undersigned demand the immediate and unconditional release of Anwar Hossein Panahi !
2) We demand for Anwar Hossein Panahi to receive urgently needed medical care for the torture wounds inflicted by prison authorities.
3) We demand the prison authorities, all government forces, agents, police, and basij to stop the inhumane torture of Iranian citizens in prison in Iran!
The FREE Anwar Hossein Panahi petition to Amnesty ,Ahmed Shaheed, UN, State Department, EU, Navi Pillay, Ban Ki-Moon, European Parliament was written by Anette Meyer and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.