Sozialgericht Lüneburg: Absenkung der Leistungen des AsylbLG unter keinem rechtlichen Gesichtspunkt zulässig

So lautet es im Beschluss vom 13.Dezember 2012 Sozialgericht Lüneburg – S 26 AY 26/12 ER-

Die Leistungen in der vom BVerfG ausgesprochenen Höhe entsprechen dem soziokulturellen Existenzminimum. Eine Unterschreitung dieses Existenzminimums verletzt den Antragsteller in seinen Grundrechten und insbesondere die in Artikel 1 GG garantierte Menschenwürde. Die Menschenwürde des Antragstellers ist gemäß Artikel 1 Absatz 1 Satz 1 GG unantastbar und darf durch staatliches Handeln nicht verletzt werden.

Für eine Absenkung der Leistungen des AsylbLG unter das vom BVerfG gebilligte Grundniveau existiert unter keinem rechtlichen Gesichtspunkt eine Rechtfertigung, die mit der Verfassung im Einklang stehen würde. Eine fehlende Mitwirkung bei der Passbeschaffung – wobei offen bleiben kann, ob sie vorliegend tatsächlich gegeben ist – kann in keinem Fall zum Anlass genommen werden, das Existenzminimum des Antragstellers zu beschneiden, um ein bestimmtes Verhalten zu erreichen bzw. zu erzwingen. Denn der Antragsgegner ist als staatliches Organ der Exekutive gemäß Artikel 20 Absatz 3 GG an die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung gebunden und daran gehindert, eine gesetzliche Regelung, soweit sie verfassungswidrig ist, umzusetzen. Dass das Unterschreiten des Existenzminimums nicht damit gerechtfertigt werden kann, dass der Betroffene nicht seinen ausländerrechtlichen Mitwirkungspflichten nachkommt, hat das SG Altenburg mit Beschluss vom 11. Oktober 2012 (S 21 AY 3362/12 ER) zutreffend erkannt und eine verfassungskonforme Auslegung vorgenommen. Eine andere Sichtweise würde zu der unerträglichen Folge führen, dass die Gewährung eines menschenwürdigen Existenzminimums als Druckmittel in die Dispositionsfreiheit des Leistungsträgers gestellt werden und der Betroffene somit zum Objekt staatlichen Handelns würde. Anders als im Falle von Sanktionen nach § 31 Sozialgesetzbuch Zweites Buch (SGB 11) – Grundsicherung für Arbeitssuchende – hat der Betroffene keinen Anspruch auf Erteilung von Wertgutscheinen, um zumindest den Grundbedarf an Nahrungsmitteln decken zu können. Zudem sieht die Gewährung gekürzter Leistungen keine Befristung vor und erscheint überdies im vorliegenden Sachverhalt als unverhältnismäßig, weil sie dauerhaft seit dem Jahre 2004 erfolgt.

HRW: Why They Left

Why They Left

Stories of Iranian Activists in Exile

Summary

Recommendations

Methodology

I. Background

• The Rise of Civil Society in the Khatami Era
• Targeting of Civil Society Activists During Ahmadinejad’s First Term..
• Crackdown on Protest and Civil Society After the June 2009 Election

II. Attacks on Civil Society

• The “Iran Proxy” Affair and Local Rights Groups
• Minority Rights Activists
• Women’s Rights Activists
• Student Activists
• Journalists and Bloggers
• Human Rights Lawyers

III. Refugees’ Stories

• Protesters
• Minority Rights Activists
• Student Activists
• Journalists and Bloggers
• Others

IV. Their Lives as Refugees

• Turkey
• Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• Acknowledgments

Map of Iran

Summary

Security forces arrested Rebin Rahmani on November 19, 2006, in Kermanshah, the capital of the western Iranian province of the same name. He had been researching the prevalence of drug addiction and HIV infections in Iran’s Kurdish-majority areas. Rahmani spent two months in detention facilities run by the Intelligence Ministry, and was interrogated by intelligence agents in both Kermanshah and Sanandaj, the main city in the adjacent Iranian province of Kurdistan. During his time in detention, he was subjected to several rounds of interrogation accompanied by physical and psychological torture. In January 2007, a revolutionary court sentenced Rahmani to five years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” and “propaganda against the state.” The sentence was handed down after a 15-minute trial during which Rahmani had no access to a lawyer.

Upon his release from prison in the latter part 2008, Rahmani learned that he had been dismissed from university and could no longer continue his education. He became active with a local rights group, but was forced to leave the country in 2011 and apply for refugee status in Iraqi Kurdistan due to mounting pressure against him and his family.

Rahmani is one of scores of journalists, bloggers, human rights activists, and lawyers who have fled Iran since the government embarked on a major campaign of repression following the widespread popular demonstrations against alleged vote-rigging in the June 2009 presidential election, which handed a second term of office to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The government’s repression has involved a range of serious and intensifying human rights violations that include extra-judicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, and widespread infringements of Iranians’ rights to freedom of assembly and expression.

This report gathers evidence of this campaign of repression from some of its principal victims: Iranian civil society activists. Because Human Rights Watch is unable to work in Iran, most of documentation presented in the report is based on interviews with activists like Rahmani who fled the country to seek refugee status in neighboring Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan following the 2009 post-election crackdown. The report focuses on four groups: human rights activists, journalists and bloggers, human rights lawyers, and protesters or persons who volunteered for the presidential campaigns of opposition members Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and were targeted by security and intelligence forces. This report discusses why they left and some of the challenges they face in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan as asylum seekers and refugees.

Although most of the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets to protest the June 2009 presidential election result had not been political or civil society activists, they nonetheless found themselves targets of security and intelligence forces.  After public protests came to an end, the authorities continued their relentless assault on all forms of dissent, targeting civil society groups and activists who had little if any connection to the protests themselves but whom they deemed to be supporters of a “velvet revolution” working to undermine the foundations of the Islamic Republic.

Along with members of the political opposition, human rights activists, journalists and bloggers, and rights lawyers bore the brunt of these attacks. Security forces arrested and detained scores of activists, including those advocating on behalf of ethnic minorities, women, and students, and subjected many to trials that did not meet international fair trial standards. Dozens remain in prison on charges of speech crimes such as “acting against the national security,” “propaganda against the state,” or “membership in illegal groups or organizations.”

In addition to the several show trials that authorities convened before television cameras where civil society activists and members of the opposition were indicted for attempting to bring about a “velvet revolution,” one of several landmark events which cast a chilling shadow over Iranian civil society in the months following the June 2009 election was the so called “Iran Proxy” affair. In March 2010, the public prosecutor announced they had arrested 30 or so persons involved in what the authorities said was a plot by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to destabilize the government. The prosecutor accused those arrested of implementing a plot code-named “Iran Proxy” under the cover of several local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Revolutionary courts tried, convicted, and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences several of those arrested on national security charged based largely on forced confessions.

The post-2009 crackdown has had a profound impact on civil society in Iran. No truly independent rights organizations can openly operate in the country in the current political climate. Many of the most prominent human rights defenders and journalists are in prison or exile, and other activists are subjected to constant harassment and arbitrary arrest. An indication of the lengths to which the government has gone to stifle civil society and dissent is its targeting of lawyers who have chosen to defend activists and dissidents arrested and charged by the authorities. In recent years, the pressure on rights lawyers defending activists has been unprecedented. Several prominent lawyers, like Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, traveled to European countries and stayed there after it became clear they could not go back without facing harassment, arrest or imprisonment on politically motivated charges.

Others, like Mohammad Mostafaei and Mohammad Olyaeifard, sought refuge abroad. Mostafaei fled Iran after authorities repeatedly summoned him for questioning and detained his wife, father-in-law, and brother-in-law. He is currently residing in Norway. More recently, Olyaeifard, another prominent Iranian lawyer who represented many high profile cases before Iran’s civil and revolutionary courts, was forced to leave the country after serving a one year prison sentence for “propaganda against the state,” imposed by the authorities because he spoke out against the execution of one of his clients during interviews with international media.

The targeting of civil society began well before 2009. The election of Ahmadinejad to his first term as president in 2005 signaled the rise of a populist conservative force, headed by Revolutionary Guards and the associated Basij forces (a paramilitary volunteer militia closely linked with the Revolutionary Guards), with the blessing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his allies.

Under Ahmadinejad’s presidency, the attitude of the government shifted from the cautious encouragement of NGOs that had characterized the approach under Ahmadinejad’s predecessor, Mohamed Khatami, to one of suspicion and open hostility. The government increasingly applied a “security framework” in its approach to NGOs, often accusing them of being “tools of foreign agendas.” Authorities also suppressed the work of activists by denying permits to NGOs to operate, often refusing to provide written explanations when rejecting applications, as required by Iranian law.

The increased pressures on civil society activists under Ahmadinejad led some to seek refuge abroad. Since 2009, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of civil society activists who have applied for asylum and resettlement to third countries. According to statistics compiled by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 44 industrialized countries that conduct individual asylum procedures, there were 11, 537 new asylum applications from Iranians to these 44 countries in 2009; 15,185 in 2010; and 18,128 in 2011. The largest number of new asylum applications was lodged in neighboring Turkey, which saw a 72 percent increase in the number of Iranian asylum seekers between 2009 and 2011.

The majority of Iranian activists fleeing persecution or the threat of persecution registered refugee claims with the offices of UNHCR in Turkey or Iraqi Kurdistan. The Turkish government has only been willing to provide temporary asylum to Iranian refugees, contingent on UNHCR’s commitment to try to resettle them in third countries. Some activists, especially members of the Kurdish minority, have sought refuge in neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan. Many Iranian refugees there said they did not feel fully secure and were desperate to resettle to a third country as soon as possible.

Human Rights Watch calls on Iran to end its repression of protesters and civil society activists. Iranian activists, government critics, and dissidents should not face the stark choice of risking imprisonment or abandoning their country because they chose to exercise their rights to free speech, peaceful assembly, or association.

Human Rights Watch calls on the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to protect the safety and welfare of Iranian refugees and refrain from threats or harassment against those who continue to pursue nonviolent political or rights activities during their time as refugees, and the Turkish government to create conditions that will allow registered refugees and asylum seekers to live and work comfortably while they are waiting for resettlement to a third country. Turkey should also allow Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, access to the country in his official capacity so that he may meet with Iranian refugees and document cases of rights abuses per his mandate.

Finally, Human Rights Watch calls on countries outside the region to speedily process claims of Iranian refugees who urgently need to leave the region and to offer generous numbers of resettlement places for refugees with no other options for durable asylum.

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Dr. Ahmed Shaheed presents report on situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

–      Member states welcome Dr. Ahmed Shaheed’s latest report, criticize challenges placed in his way by not being permitted to travel freely in Iran

–      Member states express concern with violations of the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and restrictions on access to information

–      Member states alarmed by rate of executions in Iran

–      Criticism by other states of continued “politicization” of the UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate

NEW HAVEN — On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, introduced his latest report to the eighth meeting of the third committee of the General Assembly. Dr. Shaheed registered concerns of a “deeply troubling” state of affairs, noting the imprisonment of over 40 journalists and at least 32 lawyers and human rights defenders, along with continued repression of religious and ethnic minorities. Dr. Shaheed’s full report can be read here and a brief summary of the report’s findings by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center can be read here.

Dr. Shaheed’s presentation was welcomed by several member states in the dialogue that followed, with support from the United States, the European Union (EU), and the United Kingdom, among others. The report received praise for its breadth despite the IRI’s continued refusal to allow Dr. Shaheed to visit the country. Member states shared concerns regarding the status of political prisoners (Norway), human rights defenders (Czech Republic), and imprisoned attorneys (UK). Dr. Shaheed was “deeply concerned” about the situation of imprisoned attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on hunger strike since October 17 due to denials of visitation with her family and the travel ban on her 13-year old daughter. Brazil called for the IRI to view cooperation with the UN Special Rapporteur as a confidence-building measure.

Several member states including Brazil, Norway, the UK and the Czech Republic joined Dr. Shaheed in expressing concern regarding the conditions faced by human rights defenders. The delegation from the Czech Republic highlighted the intimidation of family members and friends of human rights defenders as a particular source of concern and argued that legislation inconsistent with Iran’s human rights obligations, widespread impunity and insufficient adherence to the rule of law contributed to the dire human rights situation. The UK also decried the IRI’s failure to implement the 123 accepted suggestions from its Universal Periodic Review, reiterating its criticisms from the UN Human Rights Council’s 19th session.

Canada, meanwhile, also welcomed the report and further inquiry into human rights violations in Iran, emphasizing the opacity and restrictiveness of the electoral process in the IRI. In his response, the UN Special Rapporteur underscored the vetting of candidates by unelected officials, the persecution of journalists, the gender ban on women running for president and other indirect causes as contributing to the obstacles to free and fair elections in Iran.

The Canadian delegation also criticized the treatment of religious minority communities and violations of the right to education, especially with regards to recent discrimination against women in higher education and the criminalization of education for Baha’i youth.

While there were calls by Dr. Shaheed and the delegation from the EU for the IRI not to view the UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate as a punitive measure, comments from the IRI and China during the dialogue with Dr. Shaheed indicate that obstacles to cooperation from the IRI persist.

The IRI and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) criticized the process. The IRI expressed the belief that the UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate was motivated by the political goals “of the United States and its European allies” and that the report lacked independence and objectivity. It complained that its substantive responses to the report had not been adequately registered.

Furthermore the IRI disputed the report’s depiction of internet restrictions in Iran, countering that the IRI’s recent “cybersecurity measures” were not an attack on the freedom of expression, as the report and several member states suggest. The IRI’s representative did not respond directly to paragraph 17 of the report, which points out that the IRI has 19 netizens in prison and four on death row.

The representative of the PRC rejected the use of country-specific mandates on the grounds that it politicized the UNSR system, and supported the IRI’s response while the Maldives joined the IRI in urging the UN Special Rapporteur to examine the impact of recent sanctions on the human rights situation in Iran. Dr. Shaheed once again expressed a willingness to do so, but explained that such a study would require a different methodology–the Special Rapporteur currently focuses on witness testimony, and an analysis of the impact of sanctions would require broader sets of data–and would require cooperation from the IRI, which has not as of yet been forthcoming.

The delegation from the EU also expressed interest in learning whether or not the IRI’s recently revised Islamic Penal Code eliminated the most violent punishments, as claimed by the IRI, and drew attention to the recent executions of 10 prisoners for drug-related crimes and the frequency of executions in the IRI.

For more on the issues raised in Dr. Shaheed’s report and by member states at the third committee of the General Assembly, see:

Abuses against human rights defenders:

On the Margins: Arrest, Imprisonment and Execution of Kurdish Activists in Iran Today

Abuses against members of religious minority groups:

The witness statement of Danial Shahri

Crimes Against Humanity: The Islamic Republic’s Attacks on the Bahá’ís

Restrictions on access to information:

The witness statement of Sara

Forced Confessions: Targeting Iran’s Cyber-Journalists

Restrictions on the rights to free assembly and expression:

Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran

Executions:

IHRDC’s Chart of Executions to date in 2012

URGENT: Mass Arrest of 60 Iranian Labour Activists in Karaj

On Friday 15th of June at 12 noon 60 members of the Coordinating Committee to Help Forming Workers’ Organizations and a number of labour activists were arrested by the intelligence forces in Karaj, a city near Tehran. The detainees were transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj and until now no further news is available.

According to the committee, 9 of detainees are still in custody but the rests were released by bail. The name of 9 detainees are: Mitra Homayooni, Reyhaneh Ansari , Cyrus Fathi, Alireza Asgari, Maziar Mehrpour, Faramarz Fetrat Nejad, Jalil Mohammadi, Saeed Marzban, Masoud Salimpour and Maziar Mehrpour.

Iran must not execute five Arab minority prisoners: Amnesty International

Source: Amnesty International

The Iranian authorities must immediately overturn the death sentences of five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority who were tried unfairly and may face imminent public execution, Amnesty International said after the prisoners were moved to an unknown location at the weekend.

The men were transferred out of the general section of Karoun Prison in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Saturday, prompting concerns their death sentences may be about to be carried out.

The group includes three brothers, Abd al-Rahman Heidari, Taha Heidari and Jamshid Heidari, their cousin Mansour Heidari and Amir Muawi.

All five were arrested in April 2011 amid unrest in Khuzestan province – where most of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority lives – and were later convicted of moharebeh (“enmity against God”) for killing a law enforcement official.

“Iran must urgently halt any plans to execute these five Ahwazi men. The death sentences of all who languish on death row in Iranian prisons should be overturned or commuted,” said Ann Harrison, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International.

“Their families must be informed immediately of their whereabouts and fate, and they should be allowed access to lawyers of their choice. While held, they must be protected from all forms of torture or other ill-treatment and granted all necessary medical care.”

Death row prisoners are generally transferred to solitary confinement shortly before their executions take place.

Iran:Taxifahrerstreik in iranisch-Kurdistan

90 Taxifahrer in iranisch-Kurdistan, die regelmäßig auf der Strecke zwischenSanandadsch und Mariwanfahren, haben ihre Arbeit niedergelegt. Es ist für sie kein wirtschaftliches Überleben mehr möglich, seit die Benzin, Öl und andere Kostenfaktoren stark im Preis gestiegen sind, ohne dass die staatlich regulierten Fahrpreise ebenfalls angehoben wurden.

Auf einer Kundgebung vor dem Gouverneursgebäude von Sanandasch forderten sie die Erhöhung der Fahrpreise in einer Größenordnung, die den gestiegenen Kosten entspricht. Falls dieses Problem in den nächsten Tagen nicht gelöst würde, würden sich auch die etwa 60 Minibusfahrer der Strecke an dem Streik beteiligen.

Source: Ali Schirasi

Iran Moves to Bolster Iraq’s Beleaguered Premier Maliki

Press Roundup provides a selected summary of news from the Farsi and Arabic press and excerpts where the source is in English. 

6:15 a.m. IRDT, 17 Khordad/June 6 Amid a surge of bombings and assassinations in Iraq carried out by Sunni militants and moves to hold a no-confidence vote in parliament that could unseat Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Iran has been taking steps to support his embattled administration. (In the accompanying photo, taken in Tehran in April, Maliki is seen between Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.) The Associated Press reports,

On Monday, one of the linchpin partners in al-Maliki’s government, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, traveled to Iran for talks, government officials said. A day earlier, al-Sadr urged al-Maliki to “do the right thing” and resign, but it remains unclear whether al-Sadr will bow to Iranian pressure in the end. [...]In April, al-Maliki was given a red carpet welcome during a visit to Tehran, where he had spent some time as an anti-Saddam activist. Iran delivered an even bigger reward to al-Maliki in May: bringing the nuclear talks with world powers to Baghdad as a symbol of the city’s slow rebound from war and as a showcase of Iran’s close ties. [...]

“There is some Iranian pressure on [Iraqi] President [Jalal Talabani] not to send the letter to parliament [requesting the no-confidence vote] and to support al-Maliki,” said a lawmaker of al-Maliki’s political bloc, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to discuss sensitive political dealings with reporters.

Hamid al-Mutlaq, a Sunni lawmaker from the Iraqiya bloc, was more blunt: “The Iranian interference annoys us a lot. [...] Iran is a big player in Iraqi politics.”

UNHCR-Richtlinien zur Beurteilung internationaler Schutzbedürftigkeit von Asylsuchenden aus dem Irak

31.05.2012 - UN High Commissioner for Refugees  

Irak

UNHCR-Richtlinien zur Beurteilung internationaler Schutzbedürftigkeit von Asylsuchenden aus dem Irak (Hintergrundinformationen; wichtigste Urheber von Verfolgung und Gewalt; gefährdete Gruppen; sicherheitsrelevante Vorfälle und zivile Opfer; interne Fluchtalternative / Relokation; Ausschlussgründe) [ID 218425]

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Gutachten oder Position: UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Iraq

Arab Prisoners Expose Press TV’s Role in Extracting Confessions Under Torture

Justice for Iran: The first trail session of the 13 Arab political prisoners of Khalaf Abad (Ramshir) met this morning at the second branch of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz. Five months ago, the Iranian English speaking satellite stations, Press TV, introduced Hadi Rashedi and Hashem Sa’bani, two of the 13 individuals, as terrorists and members of armed groups. The TV station broadcast the images and names of the individuals while in todays session, the two called all the accusations lies and announced that they were forced to make the confessions under severe torture.

According to local sources, in 2010, Hadi Rashedi and Hashem Sha’bani were under severe torture in order to give information. The sources told JFI that the family of the accused were able to meet with them a few minutes before the court convened and said that Rashedi, who suffers from an ailment, suffered heavily from torture. His hip bone is shattered. Hadi Rashedi is a 38 year old chemistry instructor at Khalaf Abad (Ramshisr) High School.

Hashem Sha’bani, a 31 year old father of one girl, is a masters student of political science. He was tortured with boiling water and is in critical condition. When Press TV introduced Sha’bani and Rashedi as members of armed terrorist groups, the two individuals had not yet been tried anywhere. Under Iranian law, membership in armed terrorist groups carries a death penalty. Therefore, Press TV effectively issued the death sentence for the two individuals before they were even tried.

In its new announcement, Amnesty International expressed concern regarding the danger of execution for the 13 individuals tried today, including Rashedi and Sha’bani. Four other of the individuals are Mohammad Ali Amouri (weblogger), Rahman Assakereh (high school teacher), and two brothers by the names of Jaber and Seyyed Mokhtar Alboshoukeh. After months of detention at the Ministry of intelligence’s detention center, the aforementioned are being held at Ahvaz’s Karoun Prison. Amnesty International has requested immediate medical attention for the detainees. Local sources say that Jaber Alboshoukeh’s jaw and a few teeth are broken as a result of torture and he has lost 10 kilos of weight. As a result of torture, Mokhtar Alboshoukeh is suffering from memory loss.

One family members of the detainees told JFI, “The attorneys of these six individuals have not been permitted to visit with their client or read the case file.” This is while Press TV recorded and broadcast the confession of the detainees while they were in Intelligence Ministry’s detention center and had no access to their family or their attorneys. Prior to this, JFI issued “Cut! Take Press TV Off the Air,” a report that demonstrates how Press TV satellite station records confession acquired under torture from prisoners with the collaboration of Ministry of Intelligence and Sepah Intelligence Office. None of the video confessions documented in the report were broadcast from Press TV with the verbal or written permission of the prisoner. Majority of the time the prisoner was coerced with promise of release and told that the video taping is done for internal or research use only never to be broadcast. This is while, according to Islamic Republic Law, the media do not have the right to broadcast the image and names of individuals accused of any crimes prior to their conviction and violators will be penalized.

In April 2005, a letter was released allegedly written by Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Secretary of the president of the time. It discussed choosing a policy regarding changing the population demographic of the Arab residing areas in the south of Iran. Widespread protest spread through the Arab residing areas of the south to be continuously and violently crushed by the Iranian government. A large number of Arab activists, including women, have been arrested since; numerous cases of lengthy imprisonment terms for women, along with their young children, have been reported. In one such case, Fahimeh Badavi, a 26 year old elementary school teacher, was 8 months pregnant when she was arrested on February 26, 2006 along with her husband Ali Matouri Zadeh. After her husband was executed, she was sentences to 15 years’ imprisonment and is now serving her sentence in exile at Yasouj prison. Hoda Hashemi who was herself detained at the Intelligence Office’s detention center along with her 16 month old son, told JFI, “Without being transported to prison or given any equipments or assistance, Fahimeh Badavi delivered her daughter in her cell at the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention center, a fully male dominated location.”

As a result of the new wave of arrests in the city of Shush and Ahvaz during last winter, at least two detainees names Naser Alboshoukeh Dorafshan and Mohammad Ka’abi were killed in detention. In March 2011, Reza Maghamesi was killed under torture in Dezful Prison. So far, no information has been given to the family members of the three about the individuals responsible for their death.

What the Arab detainees spoke of in prison regarding being tortured for the purpose of extracting false confessions once more proves collaboration of Press TV with the offices in charge of violating the rights of the political prisoners through recording and broadcasting the confessions.

Read more about this:

Justice For Iran Call-to-Action for Identifying those Responsible for the Murder of the Detainees in Khuzistan

http://justiceforiran.org/call-for-action/ahvaz/?lang=en

Press TV Violates the Rights of the Detainees in Khuzistan

http://justiceforiran.org/reports/presstv-khuzestan/?lang=en

Cut! Take Press TV off the Air

http://justiceforiran.org/reports/english-cut-take-press-tv-off-the-air/?lang=en

 

 

 

Source: Justice for Iran

Ahwazi Arabs facing unfair trial, risk torture in Iran: Amnesty International

Source: Amnesty International

URGENT ACTION: AHWAZI ARABS FACING UNFAIR TRIAL, RISK TORTURE

Six members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority are due to go on trial in Iran on 20 May. The men were detained without charge for almost a year and all were arrested in connection with their activities on behalf of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority. It is feared they will not receive a fair trial and may be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.

The six men, all from Khalafabad in Khuzestan province, south-west Iran, were arrested at their homes in February and March 2011 in advance of the sixth anniversary of widespread protests by Ahwazi Arabs in April 2005. BloggerMohammad Ali Amouri, chemistry teacher Rahman Asakerehand teacher Hashem Sha’bani Amouri were arrested on 16 February. Teacher Hadi Rashidi (or Rashedi) was arrested on 28 February, and Sayed Jaber Alboshoka and his younger brother Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka were arrested in March.

The men are now held in Karoun prison in the city of Ahwaz, Khuzestan province. At least four of them were denied access to a lawyer for at least eight months after arrest. In or around February 2012, they were all charged in separate five-minute court sessions with the vaguely-worded offences of “enmity against God and corruption on earth”(moharebeh va ifsad fil-arz), “gathering and colluding against state security” and “spreading propaganda against the system”. The charge of “enmity against God and corruption on earth” carries a possible death sentence. They are due to be tried before Branch 2 of the Dezful Revolutionary Court on 20 May 2012.

URGENT ACTION – DROHENDE HINRICHTUNG: HAMID GHASSEMI-SHALL, iranisch-kanadischer Staatsbürger

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26. April 2012

HAMID GHASSEMI-SHALL, iranisch-kanadischer Staatsbürger

Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, der die iranische und kanadische Staatsangehörigkeit besitzt, droht offenbar im Iran unmittelbar die Hinrichtung. Am 15. April erfuhr seine Familie, dass sein Todesurteil an die Justizbehörde zur Vollstreckung von Todesurteilen weitergeleitet worden ist.

Hamid Ghassemi-Shall wurde am 24. Mai 2008 festgenommen, als er gerade seine Mutter im Iran besuchte. Sein älterer Bruder Alborz Ghassemi-Shall war etwa zwei Wochen zuvor festgenommen worden. Beide Brüder wurden 18 Monate lang im Teheraner Evin-Gefängnis in Einzelhaft und ohne Zugang zu rechtlicher Vertretung festgehalten. Im November 2009 wurden Hamid und Alborz Ghassemi-Shall schließlich aus der Einzelhaft in einen Trakt mit anderen Häftlingen verlegt.

In einem unfairen Gerichtsverfahren wurden beide Männer am 29. Dezember 2008 vor dem Revolutionsgericht zum Tode verurteilt. Das Gericht befand sie wegen Spionage und Verbindungen zur verbotenen Oppositionsgruppe der Volksmudschaheddin (People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran – PMOI) der “Feindschaft zu Gott” (moharebeh) für schuldig. Amnesty International vorliegenden Informationen zufolge bestanden die Beweise gegen die beiden Brüder aus einem “Geständnis” und einer E-Mail, die Hamid Ghassemi-Shall an Alborz Ghassemi-Shall, der in der Vergangenheit als Maschinenbauingenieur für die iranische Armee gearbeitet hatte, gesendet haben soll. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall bestreitet das Versenden der E-Mail. Das Urteil gegen die beiden Männer wurde am 7. November 2009 vom iranischen Obersten Gerichtshof aufrechterhalten. Im Januar 2010 starb Alborz Ghassemi-Shall, der an Magenkrebs litt, im Gefängnis.

Angaben von Hamid Ghassemi-Shall zufolge stand er im Evin-Gefängnis, bevor ihm Zugang zu rechtlicher Vertretung gewährt wurde, unter “sehr großem Druck”, ein “Geständnis” abzulegen. Unter Folter erzwungene “Geständnisse” werden in iranischen Gerichten regelmäßig als Beweismittel herangezogen. Dies verstößt gegen das Recht des Angeklagten auf ein faires Gerichtsverfahren. Die iranischen Behörden haben in der Vergangenheit auch damit gedroht, die mittlerweile verstorbene Schwester von Hamid und Alborz Ghassemi-Shall, Mahin Ghassemi�Shall, festzunehmen, weil sie sich öffentlich für ihre Brüder eingesetzt hatte.

Callous Border Security Guns Down 70 Couriers in Iran

Government Should End Pattern of Illegal Use of Lethal Force in Northwest Border Provinces

Iranian Kurds and Unemployed Resort to Dangerous Black-Market Work

Bardehnaz Piranshahr border. Photo by Shirkoo Jahani for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

(27 April 2012) The Iranian government should immediately investigate the numerous cases of border security forces killing couriers in the northwestern provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah, and hold accountable those responsible for such calloususe of unlawful force, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The government should also review its border security measures and the growing pattern of excessive use of lethal force, and should adopt clear polices to stop unlawful and unnecessary killing, the Campaign added.

“The ongoing cold-blooded killing of cross-border couriers (often called kulbar) by security officials is unacceptable, and the Iranian government must put an end to it,” Campaign spokesperson Hadi Ghaemi said. “The use of lethal force against these people, who are unarmed and are simply avoiding authorities, is unjustifiable, violates international law, and must be investigated.”

Iran Document: The Repression, Abuse, and Execution of Iranian Kurds

The five Iranians executed in May 2010Our colleagues at Arseh Sevom, pursuing civil society in Iran, profile a new report documenting the violations of the rights of Iranian Kurds, including intimidation, lengthy prison sentences, and the death penalty:

Soon it will be two years since the executions of four Kurdish activists shocked the international community. One of those executed was the teacher Farzad Kamangar, whose plight had been the focus of an international campaign. Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, and Shirin Alamhouli were also hung, as was political prisoner Mehdi Eslamian.

Widespread Detentions of Ahwazi Activists Mark Anniversary of 2005 Crackdown

http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2012/04/ahwaz-crackdown/

Iranian authorities have detained at least 26 people in the city of Ahwaz and its surroundings in the southwestern province of Khuzestan during the weeks leading up to the April 15 anniversary of a 2005 protest and subsequent crackdown.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release of all detainees. Between late March and April 16, according to the European Ahwazi Human Rights Organisation (EAHRO), Iranian security and intelligence agents detained 26 activists to prevent the commemoration of the April 15 anniversary.

On 15 April 2005, widespread demonstrations broke out in various neighborhoods of Ahwaz in protest against ethnic discrimination and government policies which lead to substantial dislocation of Arab-Iranians and impoverishment of local communities. At the time, Iranian authorities arrested hundreds of protestors, and since then they have responded to local grievances with a heavy-handed policy of repression, detentions, torture, and even executions of activists.

MP calls on Iranian refugees to take files to Iraqi House of Representatives

SULAIMANIYA, April 19 (AKnews) – Iranian refugees in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region can take their issues to the committee of human rights at the Iraqi House of Representatives so as to be followed up, said a committee member.

The committee will insert the demands in its agenda and will propose it to the House, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Kurdistan parliament and government, said MP Ashwaq Jaf.

There are hundreds of Iranian refugees, most of them Kurds, who have been living in Kurdistan for more than 10 years. Despite this, they have not been issued citizenship and have been deprived of many rights enjoyed by fellow Iranians in other countries.

Fuad Abbasi, a 30-year-old Iranian Kurdish refugee in the Kurdistan Region, said so far neither the UN nor the Kurdish government has responded to demands for citizenship.

Abbasi, who has been living in the region as a political refugee since 2001, accused the UN “as the major party responsible” for refugees of “playing with our destiny every year”.

He called on the UN and the Kurdistan government to “make our destiny clear because in any democratic country… refugees are granted citizenship after five years and enjoy the full rights as the rest of the citizens in that country”.

Abbasi also demanded the government not to treat the refugees as “fuel of the tensions between Baghdad, Erbil and the UN”.

He complained that some of the refugees suffer from serious health conditions and need to be treated abroad but since they are banned in Iran and they do not have an Iraqi passport they have to suffer the pain for the rest of their lives.

“Every day we should dig a grave for our beloved ones,” he said.

Last year AKnews conducted a report in Soran city, Erbil province. In this city alone it was reported that there were more than 450 Iranian women who married Iraqi Kurdish men, but most of them after 20 years of marital life were not naturalized as Iraqi citizens.

By Idris Abu-Bakir

The latest video in the “Angels of Iran” series about human rights violations in Iran

From the Creators:  Education Under Fire is pleased to announce the release of the latest in a series of videos about Iranian citizens who are persecuted by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A profile of human rights activist, Iranian-Kurdish singer / songwriter Soraya Fallah, with her daughter Cklara Moradian. Soraya was imprisoned four times, and tortured so severely that she miscarried in solitary confinement.

Irak: “Report on Joint Finnish-Swiss Fact-Finding Mission to Amman and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Area, May 10-22, 2011″

Quelle: Finnish Immigration Service

Irak: “Report on Joint Finnish-Swiss Fact-Finding Mission to Amman and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Area, May 10-22, 2011″ , Autor: Finnish Immigration Service & Federal Office for Migration (Switzerland)

Bericht über eine Fact-Finding-Mission in die Autonome Region Kurdistan (Sicherheitslage, Politik, Wirtschaft, Exekutive, Menschenrechte, Frauen & Kinder, Minderheiten, RückkehrerInnen, ausländische Flüchtlinge, Gesundheitsversorgung, IrakerInnen in Jordanien & Syrien) [ID 210354]

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Schweden: Iraner ins falsche Land abgeschoben

Ins falsche Land abgeschoben wurde ein 53jähriger iranischer Asylsuchender mit irakisch-kurdischen Wurzeln. Der Betroffene hat jetzt eine Beschwerde beim schwedischen Ombudsmann für Justizangelegenheiten anhängig machen lassen, nachdem im Irak, wo er jetzt in Haft sitzt, bis zu 15 Jahren Haft drohen könnten. Der Betroffene ist im Irak geboren, wurde später iranischer Staatsbürger und floh aus dem Iran im Jahre 2002 nach Schweden, wo er Asylantrag stellte. Nach Angaben seiner Anwältin stand seine Abschiebung in den Iran nach endgültiger Ablehnung des Asylantrages bevor. Tatsächlich habe man ihn dann in den Irak ausgeflogen. Ihr Mandant sei Angehöriger einer kurdischen Minderheit, von denen viele zu Saddam Husseins Zeiten in den Iran ausgewiesen worden seien. Tausende seien in den 80er Jahren im Iran verschwunden. Die irakische Botschaft in Schweden hat nach Angaben von Familienangehörigen einen irakischen Pass ausgestellt, weil es eine Regelung gebe, dass kurdische Minderheitenangehörige ihre irakische Staatsangehörigkeit wieder erwerben könnten. Die Verwandten gehen davon aus, dass materielle Interessen im Spiel gewesen seien könnten, als die Botschaft einen echten Pass für die Abschiebung zur Verfügung stellte. (Quelle: Migration News Sheet, Dezember 2011)

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13. Juli 1989 – Wiener Attentat auf iranischen Kurden Politiker – Verdächtigt: Mohamed AHMADINEJAD

Hintergrund: Morde an kurdischen Politikern in Wien

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  13. Juli 1989: Polizeieinsatz in der Landstraße Hauptstraße (Archivbild).

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Einer der Täter wurde unter Polizeischutz zum Schwechater Flughafen geleitet

Wien – Die Wiener Kurdenmorde von 1989 zählen zu den spektakulärsten Morden der letzten Jahrzehnte an iranischen Oppositionellen. Mit einem Schlag wurden an jenem 13. Juli 1989 in einer Wiener Privatwohnung drei Männer getötet: der Chef der Kurdischen Demokratischen Partei/Iran, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, sein Stellvertreter Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar und der in Österreich eingebürgerte Kurde Fadel Rasoul.Als Vorwand der Attentäter, um die Oppositionspolitiker in die Falle zu locken, diente ein angebliches Geheimtreffen mit Emissären des iranischen Regimes in der Linken Bahngasse. Es erschien das Mordkommando. Die drei Opfer wurden durch Kopfschüsse buchstäblich hingerichtet. Ein weiterer schwer verletzter Iraner, der das Massaker überlebte, konnte sich auf die Straße schleppen und Hilfe alarmieren. Anführer des Terrorkommandos soll Mohammad Jafari-Sahroudi gewesen sein, der in der vergangenen Woche angeblich im Irak festgenommen worden ist.

پناه جویان وپناهندگان در کردستان عراق ازامنیت معیشت وحقوق انسانی واجتماعی برخوردار نیستند

No to Deportation to Iran!

بسیاری ازپناهجویان که به کردستان عراق روی می آورند اغلب کردستان را به عنوان گذرگاهی برای رسیدن به کشوری امن انتخاب می کنند .اما اکثر این پناهجویان در کردستان عراق ساکن میشوند و از طریق نمایدندگی یوان درسلیمانیه و اربیل مصاحبه و کارت پناهندگی دریافت میکنن.
پناهجویانی که درکردستان عراق ساکن هستنداز هیچ امکانات مادی و معنوی از طرف حکومت اقلیم کردستان برخوردار نیستند ونمایندگی یو ان در کردستان به وضعیت موجود رسیدگی نمی کند و نکرده است و در شرایط سخت ودشواری به سر میبرند .

این درحالی است که به دلیل هم مرز بودن وروابط نزدیک حکومت اقلیم کردستان وحکومت مرکزی عراق با حکومت اسلامی ایران امنیت صدها فعال سیاسی که به کردستان پناه آورده اند در خطر است .وبارها شاهد زندانی کردن و شکنجه و آزار اذیت و دیپورت پناهجویان ایرانی بودیم .وطبق گذارش ها در اوایل سال 2011 بیش از 45 نفر از پناهجویان ایرانی که بخشا فعال سیاسی بودن بدون محاکمه از طرف حکومت اقلیم کردستان به ایران دیپورت شدند.

درفصل زمستان نمایندگی یوان درکردستان به دلیل سرد بودن و گران بودن سوخت که قیمت هر بشکه نفت سفید به110 دلار میرسد به پناهجویان وپناهندگان تنها یک بشکه نفت سفید می دهند .که به دلیل اطلاع رسانی نکردن لازم بسیاری از آنها موفق به دریافت نفت نمیشوند .

درپایان سال 2011نمایندگی یو ان شهراربیل به همه پناهجویان وپناهندگان نفت سفید دادند اما در شهر سلیمانیه اعلام شده که فقط خانواده پناهندگانی که وضعیت نامناسب معیشتی دارند می توانند نفت دریافت کنند.

این اولین باری نیست که نمایندگی یوان درکردستان عراق دست به چنین کاری میزند وهمین اندک حقوق پناهنده و پناهجویان رابرای پرکردن جیبهایشان پایمال میکنند .

لازم به ذکر است که در کردستان عراق پناهنده و پناهجو از لحاظ امنیت معیشت وحقوق انسانی واجتماعی هیچ فرقی باهم دیگر ندارند این در حالی است که باید سازمان یو ان و حکومت اقلیم کردستان تا زمانی که پروسه برسی پرونده پناهجو به پایان می رسد امکانات زندگی از جمله امنیت، مسکن و تغذیه و دارو فراهم کندوزمانی به عنوان پناهنده پذیرفته میشود باید ازحقوق شهروندی وامنیت برخوردار باشد.که هیچ پناهنده یا پناهجویی از این حق برخوردار نیستند وتنها فرقی که بین پناهجو و پناهنده در کردستان عراق مشاهده میشود تغییردادن کلمه پناهجو به پناهنده روی کارت پناهندگی است و دلیل آن این بی توجهی نمایندگی یو ان است که نمیتواند به امور پناهندگی در کردستان عراق رسیدگی کندوباید تمامی پناهجویان را به کشوری امن منتقل کنند.

France24:The noose tightens around Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf

The Iraqi government has announced that it plans to close Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents by the end of the year. But the decision that has put the international community in a difficult position.

By Marc DAOU (text)

During his visit to the US this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has a number of issues on the agenda, primarily the December 31, 2011, withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq. But at Camp Ashraf – home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents in Iraq – all eyes are set on whether Maliki’s visit could bring a resolution to a looming crisis over the future of the refugee camp.

December 31 also happens to be the deadline set by Maliki’s government to dismantle the camp, which is situated in Iraq’s Diyala province about 60 kilometers north of Baghdad.

A sprawling camp that emerged in the mid-1980s, Camp Ashraf is a base of the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), a resistance group opposed to the Iranian theocratic regime and reviled in Tehran. Under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the group – which is also called the Mujahideen Khalq – mounted attacks against the Iranian government

Following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the camp was disarmed and secured by US troops until 2009, when the US turned the camp over to the Iraqi government.

Iran: 56 sunnitische Verkündiger des Islam zu Freiheitsstrafen verurteilt

Grund ist deren Kritik an der Diskriminierung der sunnitischen Gruppierungen im Iran

(Institut für Islamfragen, dh, 02.12.2011) Laut Berichts der arabischen Zeitung http://www.alarabiya.net vom 11.10 2011 verurteilte die Islamische Iranische Republik 56 sunnitische Verkündiger des Islam [arb. Du'at] zu unterschiedlich langen Freiheitsstrafen. Die Verurteilten sind sunnitische Muslime aus kurdischen Gebieten im Iran, vor allem aus Kurdistan und dem westlichen Teil Aserbaidschans.

Unter Berufung auf die iranische Menschenrechtsorganisation Harna haben 26 der verhafteten muslimischen Gelehrten im Raja’i Shahr Gefängnis in der Nähe von Teheran einen Hungerstreik begonnen. Sie wollen auf die sie diskriminierende Behandlung der iranischen Behörden aufmerksam machen. U. a. sei es ihnen seit langer Zeit verboten, ihre Familien zu sehen. Dazu sind sie in Zellen zusammen mit Verbrechern inhaftiert.

Außerdem kritisierte Rikni Imam Jum’a die Behörden des Hafens Landja wegen der Beschlagnahmung von Eigentum sunnitischer Muslime in diesem Hafen. Darüber hinaus sind die Entwicklungsvorhaben in diesem Gebiet mit sunnitischer Mehrheit von den iranischen Behörden eingestellt worden.

Quelle: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/11/171319.html

Iraq signs ‘death warrant’ on Iran exiles: European Parliament

- Iraq has served a virtual “death warrant” on some 3,400 Iranian dissidents exiled in a camp north of Baghdad, the head of the European parliament’s delegation for relations with Iraq said Friday.

MEP Struan Stevenson said the Iraqi embassy in Brussels had sent a letter to the European parliament tantamount “to a virtual declaration of war on the UN and international community and a death warrant” for residents of the Ashraf camp.

Iraq: Need to ensure the protection of the residents of Camp Ashraf

Geneva, 11 November 2011. The OMCT calls on the authorities of Iraq to ensure the full respect for the rights of the residents of Camp Ashraf located in Iraq and on the international community to step up its efforts to prevent serious human rights violations and the forcible return of its residents to Iran in violation of the principle of non-refoulement.

“The deadline set by the Iraqi government to close Camp Ashraf by the end of 2011 without a safe solution for its residents, causes an acute risk of grave and serious human rights violations”, said Gerald Staberock, Secretary General of the OMCT.

The Iraqi government has repeatedly stated that the camp should be closed and its residents expelled from Iraq. Recent statements by Iraqi’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to close down the camp by the end of 2011 without a safe solution for its residents are all the more alarming. The OMCT recalls that Iraq has clear obligations under international human rights law to ensure the safety of the camps residents’ and that it is prohibited to forcible return them to Iran, where they may face torture, ill-treatment and other serious human rights violations.

 

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Essen/ Podiumsdiskussion: Situation der kurdischen Bevölkerung in der Türkei – Sonntag, 13. November · 14:00 – 17:00

Sonntag, 13. November · 14:00 - 17:00

 

1. Eröffnung, Begrüßung
2. Die aktuelle Situation der kurdischen Bevölkerung in der Türkei
3. Was kann man hier in Deutschland unternehmen.
4. Politische Situation der kurdischen Abgeordnete.
5. Angespannte Lage nach der Wahlen

Cansu Özdemir
Bärbel Beuermann
Yüksel Koc
Günay Aslan

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Spendenaufruf für die Erdbebenopfer (iranische Flüchtlinge) in der Türkei – Region Van /D-Farsi-ENG

Am Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2011 und am Mittwoch 9. November 2011, hat ein schweres Erdbeben der Stärke 7.2 den Südosten der Türkei im Gebiet um die Stadt VAN erschüttert. Nach Einschätzung von Fachleuten ist dies das schwerste Erdbeben in der Türkei in den vergangenen zehn Jahren und in seiner Stärke vergleichbar mit dem Erdbeben in Haiti 2010.

Mehr als 2.000 Gebäude sind zerstört. Tausende Menschen sind obdachlos, darunter viele iranische Flüchtlinge. Allein in Van leben rund 600 iranische Flüchtlinge. Wieviel Flüchtlinge unter den Toten sind steht bislang nicht fest. Viele Menschen im Erdbebengebiet halten sich aus Angst vor Nachbeben noch im Freien auf. Für sie wurden Suppenküchen eingerichtet. Nachts sinken die Temperaturen in den Ruinen auf bis zu null Grad. Somit sind Schlafsäcke und Zelte besonders wichtig.

Seitdem erreichen uns von iranischen Flüchtlingen zahlreiche Hilferufe aus der Türkei. Die ohnehin mittellosen Flüchtlinge haben nichts mehr, außer der Kleidung die sie tragen.

Aus diesem Grund rufen wir europaweit zu einer Spendenaktion für die Opfer des Erdbebens in der Türkei auf.

Jede Spende geht direkt an die Betroffenen.

Die Flüchtlingshilfe Iran e.V. 2010, zahlreiche iranische Gruppen, Organisationen und Einzelpersonen bitten um Spenden.

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روز یکشنبه یکم آبان ماه زلزله‌ای به شدت ۷،۲ ریشتر برخی‌ از شهرهای استان وان در جنوب شرقی‌ ترکیه را لرزاند. کارشناسان زلزله نگاری دنیا معتقدند این زلزله در طول ده سال گذشته شدیدترین زلزله ترکیه بوده است و آن را با زلزله هایتی در سال ۲۰۱۰ قابل مقایسه دانسته اند. این فاجعه انسانی‌ ویرانی بیش از دو هزار ساختمان، آوره شدن هزار نفر و کشته و زخمی شدن صدها نفر دیگر  را به دنبال داشته است. در این میان تعداد تقریبی ششصد پناهجوی ایرانی نیز از محلهای سکونت خود آوره شده و نیاز شدید به اسکان مجدد و انتقال از محل حادثهٔ دارند. از اینکه در میان این افراد کسانی‌ کشته شده باشند اطلاعی در دست نیست. در روزهای گذشته به دلیل وقوع چندین پس لرزه ساکنان شهر وان ناچار شده‌اند با وجود سرمای شدید در معابر عمومی به سر ببرند. در حل حاضر مراکز امداد رسانی مشغول توزیع نیازهای اولیه از جمله چادر و کیسه‌های خواب در بین اوارگان هستند.

در این میان تعداد زیادی از پناهجویان ایرانی‌ که در گذشته نیز از امکانات چندانی برخوردار نبوده اند اینک از حداقل نیازهای روزمره از قبیل خوراک و پوشاک و امکان خروج نیز محروم مانده‌اند. در راستای کمک به زلزله زدگان ایرانی شهر وان نهاد ما به همراه تعدادی از فعالان حقوق بشری مستقل خواهان کمکهای فوری از کشورهای اروپای به ترکیه است. این درخواست بر اساس تقاضای پناه جویان ایرانی صورت گرفته و پس از جمع آوری، کمک‌ها به صورت مستقیم به آسیب دیدگان ارسال میشود.

سازمان کمک به پناهندگان ایرانی ۲۰۱۰

پناهندگان ایرانی منتظر کمکهای انسان دوستانه شما هستند.

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Richter scale occurred in the Van province in Southeastern Turkey. According to
Experts, this constitutes the heaviest earthquake in Turkey within the last ten years,
comparable in magnitude with the earthquake in Haiti of 2010.

More than 2.000 houses were destroyed. Thousands of people lost their homes,
among them many Iranian refugees. Roughly 600 Iranian refugees live in the
city of Van alone. How many refugees have died, is yet unknown. Out of fear of
aftershocks, many survivors have not returned to their homes or taken shelter in
buildings thus forced to stay and sleep outdoors. Soup kitchens have been set up. At
night, temperatures have dropped beneath the point of freezing. Sleeping bags and
tents are therefore urgently needed.

Since the earthquake, numerous calls for help from Iranian refugees in Turkey have
reached us. Stranded and penniless to begin with, the refugees have nothing left but
the clothes they are wearing.

Therefore, we call for donations europeanwide to help the victims of the earthquake in
Turkey.

Every donation goes directly to the hands of a person concerned.

Flüchtlingshilfe Iran e.V. 2010, numerous Iranian groups, organizations and
individuals, are calling for donations.

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Empfehlung: Colour of Paradise (Die Farbe Gottes) Rang-e Choda

Iran 1999

Verleih: Advanced Film
Regie und Drehbuch: Majid Majidi
Darsteller/innen: Hossein Mahjoob, Salameh Feyzi, Mohsen Ramezani, Behzad Rafeiey, Morteza Fatemi u. a.
Produktion: Varahonar Film Co.
Kamera: Mohammad Davoodi
Laufzeit: 88 min

EU benennt Vermittler für Camp Ashraf

Die EU hat laut Reuters den ehemaligen belgischen EU-Botschafter Jean De Ruyt beauftragt, sich in Zusammenarbeit mit den Vereinten Nationen, der irakischen Regierung und anderen für eine Lösung der Krise in Camp Ashraf einzusetzen. Das rund 65 Kilometer von Bagdad entfernte Lager ist die Basis der iranischen Volksmudjahedin (PMOI), die einst auf der Seite Saddam Husseins gegen den Iran kämpften. Von den USA wird die Organisation als terroristische Vereinigung angesehen, die EU strich sie 2009 von ihrer Terrorliste. Seit dem Sturz Saddam Husseins sind die rund 3000 Einwohner des Lagers von Menschenrechtsverletzungen bedroht. Das Lager wurde bereits Schauplatz blutiger Zusammenstöße zwischen irakischen Sicherheitskräften und Bewohnern, mehr als 30 Bewohner wurden dabei getötet. Struan Strevenson, Leiter der Irak-Delegation des europäischen Parlaments, bezeichnete die Ernennung De Ruyts als Vermittler als einen Durchbruch, der „eine Srebrenica-artige Katastrophe“ in Camp Ashraf verhindern könne. Nach Stevensons Angaben sollen die Einwohner des Lagers UN-Flüchtlingsstatus bekommen und in EU-Staaten und anderen Drittstaaten aufgenommen werden, fügte jedoch hinzu, das dieser Prozess noch länger andauern könne.