mercoledì 2 dicembre 2020

Enough with the deaths of men, women and children at sea. Letter sent to Ms. Michelle Bachelet (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) - 02/12/2020

Link Petition

https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-migrants-and-refugees-to-detention-centers-in-libya.html








Support and protection for Anas Al Mustafà. Letter sent to Ms Alice Mogwe (President FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights) - 02/12/2020

 

Letter text:

Dear President,

I am writing to you at this time to seek your assistance in the situation of Anas Al Mustafà.

Mr. Anas Al Mustafà, a refugee in Turkey, has been a volunteer in Konya since 2016 to help Syrian refugee families fleeing the war who make it to Turkey.

Mr. Anas Al Mustafà started the “A friend Indeed” Non-Profit Association and assisted more than 175 very poor families and about 400 orphaned children. Anas has collaborated with the Italian organizations “Crescere insieme” and “Mani di Pace” as well as with the Romanian organization “Help and care trust”.

On May 15, 2020, the Turkish police broke into his home. Anas was arrested and could not defend himself from the charges. The policemen tore up the original Turkish document that legitimized him to reside in Konya and the photocopy of the Syrian one he kept in his wallet. The Turkish police jailers said he was being held in prison to check the regularity of the residence cards. One evening Anas and other Syrian prisoners were forcibly forced to sign a document. The Turkish police tore up all their documents and with a van they took Anas and the other prisoners to a Syrian prison in an isolation center in Idilib. For several months Anas was held captive in Syria but managed to escape.

I ask for support and protection for Anas Al Mustafà, who is currently in Turkey but risks a new arrest and deportation to Syria.

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

Yours sincerely.

Enough with the deaths of men, women and children at sea. Reply to the letter sent to Ms Ylva Johansson (European Commissioner for Home Affairs) - 2/12/2020

Link to the letter sent on August 31, 2020

https://freedom-dignity-respect.blogspot.com/2020/08/enough-with-deaths-of-men-women-and.html

Link Petition

https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/immediate-release-of-migrants-and-refugees-to-detention-centers-in-libya.html



Letter text:
Dear Mrs. Mariacarmela Ribecco,
Thank you for your letter of 31 August 2020 to Commissioners Ylva Johansson were you express your concern regarding the death of migrants in the Mediterranean sea and call for an expansion of humanitarian corridors to the European Union.
The European Commission shares your concerns and strongly regrets any loss of life in the Mediterranean. To save lives at sea and prevent dangerous journeys, the Commission wishes to ensure that vulnerable refugees can find shelter in the EU without having to resort to migrant smuggling networks. The Commission is fully supporting the expansion of safe and legal pathways to the EU, such as resettlement, humanitarian admission and complementary pathways of admission for persons in need of international protection.
The European Commission Recommendation on legal pathways to protection in the EU, issued on 23 September 2020, calls on Member States to continue and expand resettlement efforts and develop humanitarian admission and other forms of complementary pathways for persons in need of international protection, with the overarching objective of increasing the overall number of places for legal and safe admission.
More than 70,000 persons have already been resettled in the EU since 2015 and for 2020, Member States pledged collectively 30 000 places, for which the implementation period has been extended until the end of 2021 due to the pandemic. In addition, member states have developed at the national level, humanitarian admission programmes, such as humanitarian corridors in Italy and France. Those programmes have provided additional safe places of admission to the EU and the EU encourages their expansion.
To address the specific situation of refugees stranded in Libya, especially those in the dentention centers, the EU is committed to provide life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable refugees by funding humanitarian evacuations from Libya to the Emergency Transt Mechanisms (ETM) in Niger and Rwanda. From those countries, UNHCR in collaboration with Member States and other resettlement states are seeking durable solutions for those refugees, mostly through resettlement.
Allow me to give you some recent data on resettlement and humanitarian evacuations via the Emergency Transit Mechanisms in Niger and Rwanda:
 On 29 November 2020, 51 persons of concern left for resettlement to Sweden;
 As of 23 November, 5,929 persons have been evacuated from Libya to third countries since 2017, including 1,437 persons through direct resettlement from Libya; 808 persons for humanitarian evacuations to Italy; 3,318 persons to ETM Niger; and 385 persons to ETM Rwanda.
 On 19 November, UNHCR operated an evacuation flight of 79 persons to ETM in Rwanda. The composition of the evacuees was as follows: 33 Eritreans, 4 Somali and 42 Sudanese individuals, including four children;
 On 15 October, UNHCR operated an evacuation flight of 153 vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers out of Libya to the Emergency Transit Mechanism in Niger. This UNHCR-chartered flight marks the resumption of life-saving evacuations from Libya, ending a seven-month long suspension. A further humanitarian evacuation flight to Niger is planned to take place before the end of the year.
Resettlement has been and will continue to focus on providing solutions to the dire situation of refugees along the Central Mediterranean route.
Yours faithfully,
Laura CORRADO
Head of Unit

martedì 1 dicembre 2020

Immediate suspension of the death sentence of the Ahmad Reza Jalali

Addresses and letters to send:

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

media@rouhani.ir, infopack@irimlsa.ir, iran@un.int

Your Excellency,

I ask for the immediate suspension of the death sentence of the Iranian-Swedish doctor, professor and researcher in disaster medicine Ahmad Reza Jalali. Thank you for your attention.

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The Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran

https://www.leader.ir/en/letter

Your Excellency,

I ask for the immediate suspension of the death sentence of the Iranian-Swedish doctor, professor and researcher in disaster medicine Ahmad Reza Jalali. Thank you for your attention.

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Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Rome

iranemb.rom@mfa.gov.ir

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Brussels

secretariat@iranembassy.be

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vienna

public@iranembassy-wien.at

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Zagreb

Iran.embassy@zg.t-com.hr

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Helsinki

embassy@iran.fi

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Budapest

Iranemb.bud@mfa.gov.ir

Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

rusembiran@mid.ru

Dear Ambassador

I ask for the immediate suspension of the death sentence of the Iranian-Swedish doctor, professor and researcher in disaster medicine Ahmad Reza Jalali. Thank you for your attention.

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European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iran

D-IR@europarl.europa.eu

Dear Chair of Delegation for relations with Iran,

I ask for the immediate suspension of the death sentence of the Iranian-Swedish doctor, professor and researcher in disaster medicine Ahmad Reza Jalali. Thank you for your attention.