Tell Iranian Leaders to Allow Freedom of Expression and Association for those Protesting the Results of the Elections

by Danny Fisher

This from Amnesty International:

    After President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in the June 12 elections in Iran, there were widespread protests against the contested election results. The Iranian authorities responded with violence and repression.

    The Iranian authorities have arrested hundreds of journalists, students, opposition politicians and human rights activists. Prominent detained “reformist” politicians include Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Mohsen Aminzadeh and Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, who served under former President Mohammad Khatami and who supported candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in the June 12 presidential election.

    Amnesty International is very concerned that these “reformist” political figures who are being held in incommunicado detention are at serious risk of being torture, especially in order to force them to make televised “confessions.” These confessions could then be used against them in trials for the crime of “moharabeh” or Enmity with God, which could result in death sentences.

To send letters to Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi asking them to allow freedom of expression and association for those protesting the results of the elections in Iran, follow this link.