- Target:
- Iranian Government
- Region:
- United Kingdom
Writers expressing themselves in Azeri are deprived of linguistic freedom consisting of freedom of speech and freedom to write in their mother tongue and face perpetual problems having their work published in Azeri.
The arrested writers are being held in solitary confinement in Evin prison in Tehran, and are at risk of torture and other ill treatment.
We, the undersigned, call on the Iranian Government to free the Iranian Azerbaijani writers:
Alireza Sarrafi, Hasan Rasedi, Akbar Azad, Saeid Muganli, Mehdi Neemi and Hamid Arghish.
These writers are now in solitary confinement in Evin prison having been arrested on 10 September 2008.
Writers expressing themselves in Azeri are deprived of linguistic freedom consisting of freedom of speech and freedom to write in their mother tongue and face perpetual problems having their work published in Azeri.
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The Release the imprisoned Iranian Azerbaijani writers and poets petition to Iranian Government was written by Exiled Writers Ink and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.