Your Excellency Dr. Ahmed Shaheed,
The United
Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran
Your
Excellency,
I appreciate your humanitarian figures, particularly the third special report on
the terrible situation of human rights in Iran and would like to attract your kind
attention to the following points:
As it is well noted in your
report, people and
all political prisoners in Iran suffer
from extensive, permanent and systematic human rights violations. Here, what is important is the root of all these problems
that is surely the "involvement
of religion in government".
So, it is suggested that it has to be clearly stated and emphasized in such
reports.
Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives nations
the right of fundamental changes to the nation's constitution and religious
authoritarian regime. Religious tyranny is the worst kind of dictatorship. Any
dissenting voices and ideas are considered as “waging war against God, and are
suppressed vigorously.
To change the anti-human rights orientation
because of the future of the country, the root of these crimes of the religious
state should be eliminated. People have
the right to call for "the establishment of a free referendum to determine
the type of government in Iran". We believe that this is the people’s
right, and we should insist on it.
Therefore, we kindly request His Excellency, the special rapporteur on
human rights in Iran, to consider in your next report and emphasize this principle,
which is that one of the fundamental rights of the Iranian nation and has been
violated.
It should be noted
that Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi, as an independent leader who is now spending his
seventh year in detention, believes in separation of religion and state and
wants to hold a referendum for determining the type of the government. And that
is exactly the reason that he has been imprisoned
and tortured. He suffers from a range of diseases because of the pressures and
tortures, and his life is in danger. Also, he was denied legal representation and
medical treatment. Although he has spent
more than 2,200 days under tortures in prison and 400days in solitary
confinement by now, he has not had even one hour off or leave.
Dear Dr.
Shaheed, as you are well aware, all of the "human rights violations"
and "crimes against humanity" in Iran are the best examples of “forced
religion". In fact, the regime is trying to hide them, and prevents the
entry of "Reporters and international human rights observers" to
Iran.
Dear Dr.
Shaheed, our nation is well-informed that you have made many efforts to enter Iran to visit the
well-known protest leaders and political
prisoners during the two years of your responsibility for monitoring the human rights situation, but you have still not
been permitted to do so by the authorities.
So in this
short letter, again I express my appreciation of you and your respectful
colleagues in trying to restore human rights in Iran, and to echo the voice of
the oppressed nation so that it may be
heard by the authorities in the United Nations
Roya Araghi
Mr.
Boroujerdi’s Deputy
October 2012
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