One Year of imprisonment in accusation of acting against national security

Three of Master Eliya’s students, are sentenced to one year of imprisonment recently. The court has accused them of “acting against national security by distributing Eliya’s pictures and also lack of cooperation with security interrogators of the Religions Department in Ministry of Intelligence”.

After being arrested by security police in May 2009, Abbas Bayat, Saeed Shahbazi and Hamed Navazani, have spend more than one month in solitary confinement. They have been subjected to severe mental tortures to confess to the interrogators dictated offense. They have also been requested to bring in their potential friends who were involved in publishing Master Eliya’s pictures.

This verdict has been ordered in a while that the terror machines of Anit-Religions Department has been active in universities, Internet (and other media institutions affiliated to these mysterious agents) for brain washing of public opinion. It meant to complete its puzzle of cultural terror of El-Yasin Community and preparing the ground for heavier verdicts for other members in the near future.

It is worth to mention, the Department of Religions in Ministry of Intelligence, have had declared that “the advice and the key to the judge’s brain are under our authorities and we can easily convince the public through mass media and news delicate as we want to justify.”

Despite of this claim, El-Yasin Community persistently asking the judiciary institutions for a just investigation in the case of these 3 members by and looking forward to see revise rulings.

Iran must release activist Emadeddin Baghi

Amnesty International

8 January 2010

Call on Iran to release activist Emadeddin Baghi

Prominent Iranian Journalist and human rights activist Emadeddin Baghi was arrested on December 28, 2009, the day after massive protests were held in Tehran and other cities to mark the Shi'a religious observance of Ashoura.
He is not known to have been charged with a crime. He is in poor health stemming from his previous imprisonment, and Amnesty International is concerned that he could be subjected to ill-treatment and medical neglect while in detention.
Emadeddin Baghi was the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for human rights activists, although Iranian authorities prevented him from going to Geneva to attend the award ceremony on November 9, 2009. It was the first time in the award's 18-year history that the recipient was denied the opportunity to receive the award in person.
Emadeddin Baghi is the founder of the Association for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights, which had been compiling information on torture and other abuses of detainees. He has focused attention on Iran's appalling record of executing juvenile offenders, as well as the execution, following grossly flawed legal proceedings, of a number of Iranian Arabs accused of politically motivated crimes.
In the late 1990s he exposed the mysterious serial murders of Iranian intellectuals. His books Right to Life and Right to Life II argue for the abolition of the death penalty using Islamic texts and jurisprudence. They have been banned by Iranian authorities - who had previously shut down his newspaper Joumhouriat in 2003 - and Mr Baghi has served years in prison on charges of "endangering national security" and "printing lies."
In December 2007, during his last imprisonment, he suffered three seizures and a heart attack and remained in poor health without adequate medical care until his release in October 2008. Officials closed down the office of the Association for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights in September 2009.
The Martin Ennals award, named after the first secretary-general of Amnesty International, is a collaboration of ten of the world's leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International. It is "granted annually to someone who has demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous and innovative means." The Chairman of the Jury of the MEA, Hans Thoolen, described Emadeddin Baghi as "an exceptionally brave man defending human rights despite imprisonment and poor health."

http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/call-iran-release-activist-emadeddin-baghi

Picture: Poster for the Martin Ennals award featuring Emadeddin Baghi. Copyright: Amnesty International