Iran: signal

Abdullah al-Mansouri is still in prison, somewhere in Iran.
He got permission to telephone with his family and told them he's still alive.
December last year Amnesty Nederland launched a big action to get a lifesign from Al-Mansouri.
May 2006 Syria extradited Dutch national Al-Mansouri to Iran, since then nothing was heard about him, not even the grounds for his arrest or the charges brought up against him.
Here is an article in English language.
December was told by the Dutch government that they received promises by the Iranian government that Al-Mansouri should have a fair trial en that familymembers could visit him.
Since then, except above mentioned telephonecalls, nothing happened.
Therefore his son asks Dutch government to intensify and persist their efforts.


In Kurdistan province more then 1500 teachers and professors have been laid off on religious grounds.
334 from Sanandaj, 281 from Meriwan, 230 from Bana, 244 from Saghaz, 116 from Kamyaran, 119 from Diwandarrah, 176 from Karway, and 10 from Bijar.
They wrote an open letter to Iranian government and are calling international organizations and human rights organizations to do the same.


In Kermanshah, same province, are four fingers from the right hand of
F. Hosseini, 46, amputated.
The man was accused of safe robbery.







Amnesty International has published a statement in which she expresses her great concerns about ethnic minorities, like Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Baluchis, and Arab(ahwazi) facing a new wave of human rights violations.
Last week hundreds of Azerbaijani have been arrested in peaceful demonstrations on and round International Mother Language Day(February 21) .


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl