Immediate release Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zitani. Letter sent to the Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar Ja'afari - 30/06/2014

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

Iran - Immediate release of Mahnaz Mohammadi. Letter sent to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran –13/06/2014

Link Petition:
http://freedom-dignity-respect.blogspot.it/2014/06/iran-immediate-release-film-maker-and.html

Iran - Immediate release film maker and women's rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi

URGENT ACTION

Mahnaz Mohammadi wrote and directed her first film in 2003, "Women Without Shadows" produced by Amir Samavati. This film, depicting the lives of homeless and abandoned women in a state-run shelter, has been shown and awarded in several international film festivals. After that, she wrote, directed and produced herself various documentaries, including "Travelogue" another award-winning film. Shot in the train between Tehran (Iran) and Ankara (Turkey), the director met and questioned passengers about the reasons that lead them to leave their country. This film was shown in 2010 at the event "A Day in Tehran" created by the Cinematheque in Paris (France) in presence of the director Mahnaz Mohammadi. Subsequently, as both private and professional, Iranian authorities have refused her to leave the country, including when she was invited at Cannes for the film "Wedding Ephemerals" directed by Reza Serkanian, in which she plays the main character.

Mahnaz Mohammadi has also contributed to famous filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's documentary "We Are Half the Iranian Population" talking about the demands of Iranian women in the disputed presidential elections of 2009 which gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. In 2011 the film was screened at the Viennese film festival this human world in presence of Mahnaz Mohammadi.

Her arrest on 26 June 2011 was the third since 2007. She was arrested for the first time in March 2007 along with 32 other women's rights activists while peacefully protesting the trial of five of her fellow women's rights activists in front of a Teharan court.[citation needed] She stayed in jail for 3 weeks. Mohammadi was also arrested in August 2009 at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery as she laid a wreath on the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a sniper during the crackdowns on protests against the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She was arrested with a lot of people including famous director Jafar Panahi They were released after 1 day.

Link News:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahnaz_Mohammadi  

Link Petition:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-mahnaz-mohammadi.html

LETTER

Object: Immediate release of Mahnaz Mohammadi

Your Excellency,

I wish to appeal to you on behalf of Mahnaz Mohammadi who is the subject of my deepest concern.

Mahnaz Mohammadi wrote and directed her first film in 2003, "Women Without Shadows" produced by Amir Samavati. After that, she wrote, directed and produced herself various documentaries, including "Travelogue" another award-winning film. Subsequently, as both private and professional, Iranian authorities have refused her to leave the country, including when she was invited at Cannes for the film "Wedding Ephemerals" directed by Reza Serkanian, in which she plays the main character.

Her arrest on 26 June 2011 was the third since 2007. She was arrested for the first time in March 2007 along with 32 other women's rights activists while peacefully protesting the trial of five of her fellow women's rights activists in front of a Teharan court. She stayed in jail for 3 weeks. Mohammadi was also arrested in August 2009 at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery as she laid a wreath on the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan. She was arrested with a lot of people including famous director Jafar Panahi They were released after 1 day.

Mahnaz Mohammadi has been sentenced to 5 years in prison.

I ask the Iranian government the his immediate release. 

Ms Mahnaz Mohammadi is an innocent woman.

Thanking you in advance for your time on this important and urgent matter.

I am respectfully.

(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

Immediate release Ethiopian journalists Reeyot Alemu, Woubshet Taye, Eskinder Nega, Yusuf Getachew and Solomon Kebede. Letter sent to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights - 09/06/2014

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

Immediate release of Saudi blogger Raef Badawi. Letter sent to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - 20/05/2014

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-saudi-blogger-raef-badawi.html

Immediate release Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zitani. Letter Alexandre Ziegler (Director of Cabinet of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius) - 12/05/2014

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

Pakistan - Immediate release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter sent to the Asian Human Rights Commission - 12/05/2014

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 the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - 28/04/2014

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

Immediate release Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah and Mohammad Seifzadeh. Letter sent to the Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani (Chief Justice of Iran) - 28/04/2014

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

Immediate release of twenty innocent activists of the Bahrain. Letter sent to the Embassy of Germany in Bahrain - 14/04/2014

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

Immediate release of 16 Iranian journalists. Letter sent to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Portugal - 14/04/2014

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

Immediate release Syrian activists Mazen Darwish, Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zitani. Letter sent to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Laurent Fabius - 07/04/2014

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

Pakistan - Immediate release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter sent to the Provincial Assembly of The Punjab - 07/04/2014

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

Iran - Immediate release student activist Maryam Shafipour. Letter sent to the Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani - 31/03/2014

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

Iran - Immediate release of political prisoner Arjang Davoodi. Letter sent to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran - 31/03/2014

Link Petition:
http://freedom-dignity-respect.blogspot.it/2014/03/iran-immediate-release-of-political.html

Iran - Immediate release of political prisoner Arjang Davoodi

URGENT ACTION

HRANA News Agency - 22nd March, 2014

HRANA News Agency – Arjang Davoodi, the political prisoner of central Bandar Abbas prison, has been kept in a room alone since four months ago.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Arjang Davoodi has been transferred from special political prisoners’ ward to suit number 5 of this prison, on November 13, 2013, and kept alone since that time.
He is kept in a 12 square meter within suit number 5 of prison which has one toilet and one bathroom.
This political prisoner is absolutely cut off from other prisoners and do not have any contact with them. Even during the rest, he is alone.
An informed source said to HRANA’s reporter, “Arjang Davoodi is exiled to Bandar Abbas prison and kept at isolated detention. All of these authorities’ actions are because Arjang Davoodi has refused to send a letter to Mr. Khamenehei and request for pardon”.
He added, “Even when Arjang Davoodi becomes sick he is not allowed to go to clinic and physician would go to his room and visit him. About one month ago, a physician visited him and ordered for his transfer to a medical center outside of prison, but authorities did not allow”.
Need to be mentioned, during last four months an agent specifically has been assigned for him during 24 hours and even during the common transfer private cars are used.
Arjang Davoodi has been sent to court two times during this period, first time on February 18, 2014, on branch number 3 of revolutionary court of Bandar Abbas, governed by judge Damsaz, for his charge regarding Fight against God’s will, but due to absence of attorney, court was halted.
Second time, on March 8, 2014, he was transferred to branch number two of revolutionary court of Bandar Abbas, on charge of insulting supreme leader for which he was already interrogated in ward 209 of Evin prison.
This senior political prisoner who has been deprived of furlough was transferred from ward number 12 of Rajai Shahr to solitary confinements of Evin prison, on July, 2013, and after 127 days in solitary confinement, exiled to Bandar Abbas prison.
Need to be mentioned, Arjang Davoodi has served his first ten years sentence but due to profiling, he is sentenced to 20 years and 8 months in prison.

Link News:
https://hra-news.org/en/political-prisoner-isolated-since-4-months-ago

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/39101.html

LETTER

Object: Immediate release of political prisoner Arjang Davoodi

Your Excellency,
I wish to appeal to you on behalf of Arjang Davoodi who is the subject of my deepest concern.
Mr Davoodi was arrested in October 2003 for participating in a documentary, Forbidden Iran, in which he spoke out about human rights violations in Iran. Mr. Davoodi has been subjected to torture and ill-treatment.
Mr. Davoodi has served his sentence in a number of different prisons in Iran.
He has also spent lengthy periods of time in solitary confinement in Evin Prison since his arrest and has had no contact with his family since his transfer to Section 209.
After 127 days under excruciating torture in solitary confinement in ward 209 of Evin prison, political prisoner Arjang Davoodi, was transferred to exile in Bandar Abbas prison in the south of Iran.
Mr. Davoodi has been isolated since 4 months ago.
This political prisoner is absolutely cut off from other prisoners and do not have any contact with them. His health is worsening.
I ask the Iranian government the his immediate release.
Thank you for your attention.

(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

Pakistan - Release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter the Supreme Court of Pakistan - 27/03/2014

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 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - 27/01/2014

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

Immediate release of 16 Iranian journalists. Letter sent to the 3rd Standing Committee (Foreign Affairs) of the Senate of the Italian Republic - 24/03/2014

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

Immediate release of Saudi blogger Raef Badawi. Letter sent to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Rome - 17/03/2014

Link Petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-saudi-blogger-raef-badawi.html

Immediate release Ethiopian journalists Reeyot Alemu, Woubshet Taye, Eskinder Nega, Yusuf Getachew and Solomon Kebede. Letter sent to the Embassy of Ethiopia in Berlin - 17/03/2014

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 - Release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter Jennifer Kraft (Civil Society Network website of the United Nations Secretariat) - 14/03/2014

Hello Ms. Ribecco.

We thank you for your communication on the Asia Bibi case. I attach two files that may be of interest to you. One is the public summary of the letter that the Special Procedures mechanism sent to the Government on the case, and here is the link to the High Commissioner's statement during her visit to Pakistan in 2012.  No reply has been sent to the Special Procedures- letter.
http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=12223&LangID=E
https://spdb.ohchr.org/hrdb/21st/public_-_UA_Pakistan_22.03.12_(3.2012).pdf
We hope you will be able to continue to follow these matters closely.

With best regards,

Jennifer
Civil Society Network website of the United Nations Secretariat

Pakistan - Release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter the office of Jean Lambert (Chair of Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia -European Parliament) - 12/03/2014

Dear Maria Carmela,

Thank you for your email and apologies for the delayed reply. Jean is very aware and active on the situation of the blasphemy laws, having raised this a number of times in meetings with the Pakistani Ambassador to the EU, NGOs and other individuals.
As you would be aware, the blasphemy laws have been, and have the potential to be abused in convicting innocent civilians. More worrying is the death penalty that these convictions can carry. Jean is concerned about the continuing case of Asia Bibi, as well the numerous other Muslims, Hindus, Christians and other religions that are susceptible to these laws.
The European Parliament recently adopted a report on Pakistan's regional role where it:
"27.  Reiterates its deep concern that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws – which can carry the death sentence and are often used to justify censorship, criminalisation, persecution and, in certain cases, the murder of members of political and religious minorities – are open to a misuse that affects people of all faiths in Pakistan; underlines that the refusal to reform or repeal the blasphemy laws creates an environment of persistent vulnerability for minority communities; calls on the Pakistani government to implement a moratorium on the use of these laws, as a first step towards revising or revoking them, and to investigate and prosecute, as appropriate, campaigns of intimidation, threats, and violence against Christians, Ahmadis, and other vulnerable groups;"
You can find the full text of the report attached. Thank you again for raising this important issue.

Best regards,

Poonam Datar
Office of Jean Lambert, Green MEP for London
European Parliament

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A7-2014-0117&format=XML&language=EN

Immediate release Iranian lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah and Mohammad Seifzadeh. Letter sent to Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov - 10/03/2014

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

Immediate release of twenty innocent activists of the Bahrain. Letter sent to the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs of Bahrain - 10/03/2014

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

Pakistan - Immediate release of Asia Bibi and the review of the norms on the blasphemy. Letter sent to the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan - 04/03/2014

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