Immediate release of blogger Raef Badawi. Letter sent to Crown Prince and Minister of Defence & Aviation –30/12/2013

Immediate release Ethiopian journalists Reeyot Alemu, Woubshet Taye, Eskinder Nega, Yusuf Getachew and Solomon Kebede. Letter sent to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia – 16/12/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ethiopia-immediate-release-ethiopian-journalists-reeyot-alemu-woubshet-taye-eskinder-nega-yusuf-getachew-and-solomon-kebede.html

 

Pakistan - Immediate release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter sent to Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights of Pakistan - 09/12/2013

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/letter-for-minister-of-human-rights-of-pakistan-for-imm.html

 

Iran - Immediate release Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah and Mohammad Seifzadeh. Letter sent to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran - 09/12/2013

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-iranian-lawyers-nasrin-sotoudeh-javi.html

Syria - Immediate release Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zitani. Letter sent to the Comité de défense des libertés démocratiques et des droits de l'Homme en Syrie (CDF) - 25/11/2013

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-mazen-darwish-hussein-ghrer-hani-al.html

Iran - Immediate release of 16 Iranian journalists. Letter sent to Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran - 25/11/2013

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/liberation-of-16-journalists-iranians.html

 

Tunisia - Immediate release of Jabeur Mejri. Letter sent to Ligue Tunisienne pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme - 18/11/2013

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-jabeur-mejri.html

Pakistan - Immediate release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter sent to President of Pakistan - 18/11/2013

Link Petition: 

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/letter-for-minister-of-human-rights-of-pakistan-for-imm.html

Bahrain - Immediate release of seventeen innocent activists. Letter sent to the Embassy of Bahrain in France - 11/11/2013

Link Petition: 
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-fourteen-innocent-activists.html  

Tunisia - Right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists. Letter sent to Tunisian Embassy in Washington - 11/11/2013

Immediate release Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zitani. Letter sent to the Embassy of China in Damascus - 28/10/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-mazen-darwish-hussein-ghrer-hani-al.html 

Tunisia - Immediate release of Jabeur Mejri. Letter sent to the Organization against Torture in Tunisia (OCTT) - 28/10/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-jabeur-mejri.html

Iran - Immediate release of 16 Iranian journalists. Letter sent to Embassy for Italy in Tehran - 21/10/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/liberation-of-16-journalists-iranians.htmlWebRepOverall%20rating

Pakistan - Immediate release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter sent to Minister of the Interior of Pakistan Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan - 21/10/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/letter-for-minister-of-human-rights-of-pakistan-for-imm.html

Immediate release Syrian journalist Bilal Ahmed Bilal. Letter sent to John Kerry (United States Secretary of State) - 14/10/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/diplomatic-pressure-for-the-immediate-release-for-bilal-ahmed-bilal.html

Bahrain - Immediate release of sixteen innocent activists. Letter sent to Gulf Cooperation Council Building - 14/10/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-fourteen-innocent-activists.html

Letter Andrew Kennedy (Campaigns and Communications Officer International Federation of Journalists) for Right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists - 09/10/2013

Thank you for your concern regarding the social and professional rights of Tunisian journalists.

The IFJ is continuously supporting Tunisian journalists, their union and their right to work freely without threats and intimidation.

Please see the statement we issued on 13 September demanding the immediate release of Tunisian journalist Zied El Hani http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-calls-for-immediate-release-of-tunisian-journalist

And the statement we issued on Friday, 7 October, giving our full backing to journalists at Tunisian Radio Station Radio Kalima and calling on the stations' management to pay their salaries and support the journalists' right to have fair contracts: http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-calls-for-management-of-tunisian-radio-station-to-pay-staff-wages

We continue to work closely with our member union in Tunisia, the Syndicat national des journalistes tunisiens (SNJT), in monitoring developments in the case of Ettounsiya Sami Fehri.

Regards,

Andrew Kennedy

Campaigns and Communications Officer

International Federation of Journalists

-----Original Message-----

From: mariacarmelaribecco@libero.it [mailto:mariacarmelaribecco@libero.it]

Sent: lundi 7 octobre 2013 22:16

To: Administration IFJ

Subject: Right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists

Dear International Federation of Journalists,

We would like to take the opportunity to call your attention to on right to freedom of information for Tunisian Journalists.

The Tunisia must give voice to his people. The freedom of information is a right. We read about journalists censored and threatened.

We are concerned about the arrest and the hunger strike of TV producer and director of television Ettounsiya Sami Fehri.

We are asking a strong diplomatic pressure for protect the job of journalists.

A free journalist allows the change and growth of a nation.

In awaiting your reply, be assured of our most respectful sentiments.

Mariacarmela Ribecco (Italy), Marcos Zacariades (Brazil), Louis Richard (Canada), Maria Luisa Crosina (Italy), Maria Sophia Quine (UK), Diana Nardella (Italy), Shahriar Imam (Italy), Isabel Costa (Spain), Siyamack Sohrabmanesh (Italy), Milesi Gherardo (Germany), Anita Hunt (UK), Elena Gennaro (Italy), Maribel Lafuente (Spain), Anette Meyer (Sweden), Uli Vsanden (Germany), Mohssen M (Iran), Cordula Giewald (Germany), Gunn Vigdis Værnes (Norway), Vasudeva Nayak (Germany), Iver Neumann (Norway), Amy Poll (Netherlands), Dianne Wells (USA), Mona Bentzen (Norway), Elisabeth Millet (France), Khadija Chaouachi (Tunisia), Steinar Strandheim (Sweden), Ali Soho (Philippines), Wynn M Chapman (France), Attika Toumi (France), Sherry Breznicki (USA), Teresa Masia Perales (France), Joanna Kozanecka (Poland), Arati Ganguly (India), Jaya Chakraborty (India), Indranil Chakraborty (India), Peter Walther (Germany), Ahmed Semine (Canada), Cécile Bourreau (France), Jonathon Tingey (Canada), P. Winston Fettner (USA), Isabella Summers (Australia), Sue Fellows (UK), Thaddeus Hutyra (Belgium), Nona Simons (USA), Carole Vila (USA), Higari Kaga (USA), Sunny Bangar (India), Nasi Payghambarian (Sweden), Fátima Coutinho (Brazil), Natalia Lourenzo (Brazil), Saeed Khan Falahi (India), Jaya Chakraborty (India), Arati Ganguly (India), Sophie Caymaris (France), Randy Kling (USA), Lesley Dove (UK), Bruno Santos Ribeiro (Portugal), Maria Guia Alix (Spain), Angelito Roño (Philippines), Loredana Zecca Vinciguerra (USA), Terry White (Canada), Therese Rickman-Bull (USA), Steve Berry (Australia), Mouna Dhaoui (Tunisia), Massimiliano Zecca Vinciguerra (USA), Sunny Bangar (India), Eva De Vor (Netherlands), Charls Dixi (USA), Julie Harris (USA), Allen Dusablon (USA), Jean-Jacques Girard (France), Jaya Chakraborty (India), Jagmohan Singh (India), Arati Ganguly (India), Mansour Alomari (Turkey), Allen Dusablon (USA), Rune Moen (Norway), Joanna Laude (France), Christine Mikolaitis (France), Rinki Banerji (India), Sophie Caymaris (France), Solmaz Dezhparvar Derakhshan (Iran), John Burke (USA), Lesley Dove (UK), Bjarne Kim Pedersen (Denmark), Dale Williams (USA), Joanna Cove (UK), Peymaneh Shafi (USA), Shiva Nojo (Germany), Moni Kashef (USA), Thomas Ah Yee (USA), Samantha Cummings (UK), Paolo Merolla (Italy), Teus Kon (Netherlands), Elisabeth Scott (USA), Rbka Ruj (Canada), Kathleen White (Canada), Bonnie Newman (UK), Susanne Kayser-Schillegger (Marshall Islands), Bersabeh Bagheri (USA) and Sean Anderson (USA).

Syria - Immediate release Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zitani. Letter sent to Islamic Human Rights Commission - 30/09/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-mazen-darwish-hussein-ghrer-hani-al.html

Immediate release of 18 Iranian journalists. Letter sent to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani - 30/09/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/liberation-of-16-journalists-iranians.htmlWebRepOverall%20rating

Tunisia - Immediate release of Jabeur Mejri. Letter sent to Tunisian Foreign Minister M. Othman Jirandi - 23/09/2013

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-jabeur-mejri.html

Iran - Immediate release student activist Maryam Shafi`pour. Letter sent to Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei - 23/09/2013

Link Petition:

http://freedom-dignity-respect.blogspot.it/2013/09/iran-immediate-release-student-activist.html

Immediate release Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu. Letter sent to Minister of Justice Getachew Ambaye – 23/09/2013

Link Petition:

http://freedom-dignity-respect.blogspot.it/2013/08/ethiopia-immediate-release-journalist.html

Iran - Immediate release student activist Maryam Shafipour

URGENT ACTION

theguardian.com, Monday 3 March 2014

An Iranian court has sentenced a leading student activist and human rights campaigner to seven years in prison for peaceful political activism.
Maryam Shafipour, 29, who is being held in a women's wing of Evin prison in Tehran, was found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "gathering and colluding" against the ruling system. She was arrested in July after being summoned for questioning and was kept in solitary confinement for more than two months without access to her lawyer.
The opposition website Sahamnews reported on Sunday that her sentence was issued by Abolghasem Salavati, a judge at the Islamic revolutionary court. He has handed down heavy sentences to activists and campaigners in recent years, especially in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election in 2009. It was not clear if Shafipour had access to legal representation in the court.
Maryam Shafipour
Maryam Shafipour was jailed 'merely for peacefully expressing her views', says Amnesty.
In 2009, Shafipour, a student of agricultural engineering from the Imam Khomeini International University in Qazvin, a province west of Tehran, campaigned for the opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, and was a member of the women's committee for his campaign. She was first arrested in 2010 and subsequently given to a one-year suspended prison term. She has since been barred from continuing her education and expelled from university. Other student activists imprisoned in Iran include Majid Tavakkoli, Bahareh Hedayat, Seyyed Zia Nabavi, Majid Dori and Navid Khanjani.
A relative of Shafipour told the opposition website Kaleme that the activist had been under pressure from her interrogators to confess and had been mistreated and tortured in jail.
In December, the Committee of Human Rights Reporters in Iran (CHRR) reported that Shafipour's health was deteriorating in Evin.
"In the past week her high blood pressure reached dangerous levels rendering her unconscious and she was transferred to the prison's infirmary," CHRR reported.
"Despite the recommendation by the prison's doctor that Shafipour immediately receive an MRI, the prison authorities did not comply. In addition during the past weeks Maryam Shafipour has been suffering from extreme toothache but she has not been seen by a dentist nor been allowed to receive medical attention for her teeth."
Amnesty International has also said that Shafipour reportedly passed out in December after experiencing an irregular heartbeat.
The charity's Middle East and north Africa deputy director, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, said on Monday: "Maryam Shafipour's conviction is a chilling reminder of how little Iran's human rights record has changed since 2009, when students were arrested in droves during postelection unrest.
"That a student could be jailed for seven years merely for peacefully expressing her views or supporting an opposition politician defies belief.
"Maryam Shafipour should be immediately and unconditionally released, and allowed to continue her studies. She should not spend the next seven years languishing in Evin prison."

Link News:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/mar/03/iran-sentences-student-activist-seven-years-prison-maryam-shafipour  

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-maryam-shafipour.html  

LETTER

Object: Immediate release student activist Maryam Shafipour

Your Excellency,
I am writing to you at this time to seek your assistance in the situation of student activist Maryam Shafipour.
Ms Maryam  Shafipour has been arrested on Saturday July 27.
According to a report by Advar News, the intelligence agents have gone to her house and taken some of her personal properties including her laptop, 2 mobile phones and her personal notes.
After the interrogations the agents have arrested and transferred Ms Maryam Shafipour to Evin prison.
She was kept in solitary confinement for more than two months without access to her lawyer.
An Iranian court has sentenced Maryam Shafipour to seven years in prison. Was found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "gathering and colluding" against the ruling system. 
Maryam Shafipour is in critical health condition.
I ask the Iranian government the his immediate release.
Ms Maryam Shafipour is an innocent woman.
In awaiting your reply, be assured of my most respectful sentiments.
Yours sincerely.
(your name)

Address:

Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
Salutation: Your Excellency
The Office of the Supreme Leader
Islamic Republic Street – End of Shahid
Keshvar Doust Street,
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info_leader@leader.ir
Twitter: "#Iran Leader

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Salutation: Your Excellency
His Excellency Hassan Rouhani
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani
Salutation: Your Excellency
[care of] Public relations Office
Number 4, 2 Azizi Street
Vali Asr Ave., above Pasteur Street intersection
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Send letter official website of the office of the Supreme Leader of Iran
http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=letter   

Send letter official website of the President of Iran
http://rouhani.ir/contactus.php