Take Action: Hold Iran to Obligations not to Deny Rights of #HumanRights Defenders

Please take a minute to read through this description of the current situation of human rights defender Shiva Nazar Ahari. You will find two actions included in the body of the text, including a sample letter as well as emails and addresses. Thank you for your support.

Dear friends,

Shortly after the disputed presidential elections on 12 June 2009, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a young human rights activist and a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), was arrested and kept for months in solitary confinement and subjected to extreme methods of interrogation. In September 2009, after spending more than 100 days in prison, she was released on a $200,000 bail. Nazar Ahari, who had re-started her activism immediately upon her release from prison, was arrested once more on 20 December 2009 along with other members of CHRR when a bus taking several political and civil activists to Ayatollah Montazeri’s funeral in Qom was stopped by security forces in Tehran’s Enghelab Square. Shiva Nazar Ahari has just spent her 28th birthday in prison.

14/6/2010
UPDATE: Iran: Revolutionary Court agrees to integrate 2 cases brought against Nazar Ahari
In an interview with the news agency, Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran on 12 June 2010, Shiva Nazar Ahari's lawyer, Mohammad Sharif, said: "After two different cases brought against Nazar Ahari were integrated, the [new date for the court] session has not yet been declared to us." Sharif announced that his client had been officially accused of 'Moharebeh' (enmity against God), and acts against national security through collective action and participation in the demonstrations. International Solidarity Network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) is deeply concerned that such charges attract very severe sentences under Iran's Penal Code and Nazar Ahari and could face the death penalty. Please continue to write to/telephone the Iranian authorities calling for Iran to abide by its commitments under international laws and its own constitution.

Follow the link to see an attached sample letter: http://www.wluml.org/node/6406

ADDRESSES:

Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani
Head of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh (Office of the Head of the Judiciary)
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri,
Tehran 1316814737,
Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: via website: http://www.dadiran.ir/tabid/75/Default.aspx
(put given name in first starred box, family name in second starred box, and email address in third. Paste appeal in large box)
Salutation: Your Excellency

General Public Relations Office
Tel: 0098 21 66407070 (Extension: 220-227)
Email: info@dadiran.ir

Tehran Prosecution Office (which the Revolutionary Court prosecutor is part of)
Tel: 0098 21 33948785
Fax: 0098 21 33948887
Answering Machine: 0098 21 33111027
Email: info@dadsara.ir

High Council for Human Rights (Larijani's bureau)
Email: info@humanrights-iran.ir

General Office of International Affairs (in Judiciary):
Emails: bia.judi@yahoo.com; bia.judi@yahoo.com

General Prosecutor's Office
Email: info@dadsetani.ir

Women Living Under Muslim Laws
International Solidarity Network
http://www.wluml.org/
wluml@wluml.org

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