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یورش به کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر از احتمال حملات گسترده تر علیه مدافعان حقوق بشر خبر می دهد.
نیویورک- دوم دی ماه ۱۳۸۷- امروز کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران وسازمان دیده بان حقوق بشر اعلام کردند که یورش غیر قانونی نیروهای امنیتی به کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر در ایران در تاریخ اول دی ماه ۱۳۸۷، باعث نگرانی های بسیاری مبنی بر تلاش در به سکوت کشاندن جامعه حقوق بشر در ایران شده است.
کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران و دیده بان حقوق بشر مشترکا از دولت ایران خواستند که فورا اجازه بدهند که کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر دفترش را باز کند و در مورد مقاماتی که بدون حکم قضایی مسئول این حمله هستند تحقیق کرده و از آنها بازخواست کند که پاسخگو باشند.
کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر توسط خانم عبادی؛ برنده جایزه صلح نوبل در سال ۲۰۰۳ میلادی و سایر مدافعان برجسته حقوق بشر در ایران در سال ۱۳۷۹ تاسیس شد. کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر درصدد برگزاری مراسمی در روز اول دی ماه در دفتر کانون به مناسبت شصتمین سالگرد بیانیه حقوق بشر بود.
کنتیت راث؛ مدیر کل دیده بان حقوق بشر در این زمینه گفت: "پلمپ کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر فقط حمله به شیرین عبادی و همکاران ایشان در کانون نیست، بلکه حمله به تمامی جامعه بین‌المللی حقوق بشر است که ایشان یک عضو موثر و بسیار مهم آن است." وی اضافه کرد "مقامات ایران باید به کانون اجازه بدهند که دفترش را باز کند و قبل از هز چیزی باید بررسی کنند که چرا این یورش اتفاق افتاده است."
کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران و دیده بان حقوق بشر ازاحتمال سرکوب های بعدی و محاکمه خانم عبادی و اعضای کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر در ایران ابراز نگرانی جدی کردند.در موارد مشابه دیگر، حمله به دفاتر فعالان و آزار و اذیت با بازداشتها و دستگیری های خودسرانه پی گرفته شده است و غالبا به محاکماتی بر اساس اتهامات واهی منجر شده است. در حال حاضر، محمد صدیق کبودوند؛ موسس سازمان حقوق بشر کردستان، در اجرای حکم ۱۰ سال زندان فقط بخاطر فعالیتهای دفاع از حقوق بشر در زندان بسر می برد.
نرگس محمدی؛ سخنگوی کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر به کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران گفت که تقریبا ۳۰۰ نفر از حامیان و مدافعان حقوق بشر به این مراسم خصوصی دعوت شده بودند. درست چند ساعت قبل از شروع برنامه، در حدود ساعت ۳ بعدازظهر که ایشان به دفتر کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر رسید متوجه شد که دهها نفر از نیروهای انتظامی و ماموران لباس شخصی سعی به ورود به ساختمان داشتند.
خانم محمدی گفت: "من از آنها حکم قضایی تفتیش دفتر را خواستم اما به جای حکم، سردارمسئول حمله به دفتر به من گفت که لباس او مبنای قانون است و او نیازی به هیچ حکم قضایی ندارد. در حالی که من مشغول گفتگو با سردار بودم، یکی از ماموران لباس شخصی به من حمله کرد و در حالی که با فریاد فحاشی می کرد منو تهدید کرد. نیروهای پلیس مداخله کردند و و او را دور کردند در حالی که او همچنان بر سر من فریاد می زد که "اگر زن نبودی، من پاهاتو می گرفتم، می کشیدم روی زمین و پرتت می کردم توی خیابان."
ماموران دولتی در حضور خانم عبادی و محمدی، و دو تن دیگر از اعضای کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر وارد ساختمان شدند. ماموران از ساختمان فیلمبرداری کردند و ساختمان را تفتیش کردند. آنها اعضای کانون را به زور از ساختمان بیرون کرده و همه درهای آن را پلمپ کردند.
نیروهای لباس شخصی فیلمبرداری کرده و مانع ورود آنها به ساختمان شدند. آنها همچنین دوربین خبرنگارانی را که حضور داشتند، مصادره کردند. خانم محمدی در مورد رفتار ماموران امنیتی با مدعوین گفتند: "ماموران لباس شخصی به میهمانان حمله کرده و آنها را تهدید کردند. از جمله اینکه آنها به سینه و سر آقای هادی اسماعیل زاده؛ عضو کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر، ضربه وارد کرده و تلفن موبایلش را ازش گرفتند. رفتار ماموران لباس شخصی زشت و خشونت بار بود."
هادی قائمی؛ سخنگوی کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران گفت: "اگر خانم شیرین عبادی و کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر نتوانند یک مراسم ساده برای بزرگداشت شصتمین سالگرد بیانیه عمومی حقوق بشر برگزار کند، پس هیچ شهروند ایرانی برای صحبت در باره حقوق بشر و ترویج آن اصلا امنیت نخواهد داشت." وی تاکید کرد که "این شاخص خیلی خوبی است برای انکه ببینیم ظرفیت تحمل دولت در مورد موافعان حقوق بشر چقدر است و امروز شاهد بودیم که هیچ ظرفیتی وجود ندارد."
کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر طبق اساسنامه خود موظف به «دفاع رایگان از متهمان عقیدتی و سیاسی»، «حمایت از خانواده های زندانیان سیاسی و عقیدتی» و «گزارش دهی منظم و مستمر در موارد نقض حقوق بشر در ایران» است.
دولت ایران موظف است که بطور یقین از مدافعین حقوق بشر محافظت کند. بر اساس اعلامیه سازمان ملل متحد در مورد مدافعین حقوق بشر، که در مجمع عمومی این سازمان با توافق تمامی اعضا در سال ۱۹۹۸ به تصویب رسید، دولتها موظف شدند که در مقابل هر گونه خشونت، تهدید، اقدام تلافی جویانه، تبعیض قانونی یا عملی، فشار و یا هر گونه عملیات خودسرانه ای که ممکن است بخاطر تلاش مشروع مدافعان در ارتقاء حقوق بشر علیه آنها رخ دهد، همه اقدامات لازم را توسط همه مقامات خود برای حفاظت از مدافعین حقوق بشر در پیش بگیرند.
For Immediate Release
Iran: Reverse Closure of Nobel Laureate’s Rights Group
Raid May Herald Broader Attack on Human Rights Defenders
(New York, December 22, 2008) – The unlawful raid by Iranian security forces on the Tehran rights group run by Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi on December 21, 2008, raises concerns of a broader attempt to silence Iran’s human rights community, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch said today.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to immediately allow the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) to reopen its office, and to investigate and hold accountable those authorities responsible for conducting the raid without warrant or other apparent legal basis.
The DHRC, which was founded by Ebadi, who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, and other prominent Iranian human rights defenders in 2000, planned to hold the 60th anniversary celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at their Tehran office on December 21.
“The closure of DHRC is not just an attack on Shirin Ebadi and her Iranian colleagues, but on the entire international human rights community of which she is an influential and important member,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “The Iranian authorities should allow the center to reopen and investigate why it was raided in the first place.”
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch expressed serious concerns of further persecution and possible prosecutions of Ebadi and DHRC members. In similar cases, Iranian authorities have frequently followed office raids and other harassment with arbitrary arrests and detention, often leading to prosecutions on dubious charges. Currently, Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, founder of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, is serving a 10-year prison sentence solely for his activities as a human rights defender.
Narges Mohammadi, DHRC’s spokesperson, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that nearly 300 human rights defenders and supporters had been invited to the private celebration. She said a few hours before the start of the program, at around 3 p.m., she arrived at DHRC’s office to find dozens of police, members of state security forces, and plainclothes agents attempting to enter the building.
According to Mohammadi: “I asked them to produce a search warrant, but instead the commander told me, ‘My uniform is the legal basis, I don’t need to give you any warrant.’ As I was discussing the issue with the uniformed officer in charge, a plainclothes agent physically approached and threatened me while shouting insults. Police agents quickly restrained him and moved him away while he was shouting at me, ‘If you were not a woman, I would drag your legs and throw you into the street.’”
The government agents entered the office while Mohammadi, Ebadi, and two other DHRC members were present. The agents filmed the premises, made an inventory, and forced the center’s members to leave before putting locks on all entrances.
Security forces videotaped guests as they arrived for the event, and prevented them from approaching the building. They also confiscated journalists’ cameras. “Plainclothes agents attacked and intimidated guests. In one instance, they beat a member of DHRC, Hadi Esmailzadeh, on his chest and head and took his mobile telephone away. Their behavior was violent and vulgar,” Mohammadi said.
“If Shirin Ebadi and DHRC cannot hold a simple event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then no Iranian citizen has any security to talk about or advocate for human rights,” said Hadi Ghaemi, spokesperson for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “This is a litmus test for the Iranian government’s tolerance of human rights defenders, and its results show ‘zero tolerance.’”
DHRC’s mission statement describes its primary duties as “pro-bono legal defense of prisoners of conscience,” “supporting families of prisoners of conscience,” and “documentation and reporting of human rights abuses.”
The government of Iran has an affirmative obligation to protect rights advocates. The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which the UN’s General Assembly adopted by consensus in 1998, declares that states “shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of [human rights defenders] against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary actions” as a consequence of their legitimate effort to promote human rights.
For more information, please contact:
In New York, Hadi Ghaemi (English, Persian): +1-917-669-5996 (mobile)
In New York, Sarah Leah Whitson (English): +1-212-216-1230; or +1-718-362-0172 (mobile)
For Immediate Release
Iran: Reverse Closure of Nobel Laureate’s Rights Group
Raid May Herald Broader Attack on Human Rights Defenders
(New York, December 22, 2008) – The unlawful raid by Iranian security forces on the Tehran rights group run by Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi on December 21, 2008, raises concerns of a broader attempt to silence Iran’s human rights community, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch said today.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to immediately allow the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) to reopen its office, and to investigate and hold accountable those authorities responsible for conducting the raid without warrant or other apparent legal basis.
The DHRC, which was founded by Ebadi, who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, and other prominent Iranian human rights defenders in 2000, planned to hold the 60th anniversary celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at their Tehran office on December 21.
“The closure of DHRC is not just an attack on Shirin Ebadi and her Iranian colleagues, but on the entire international human rights community of which she is an influential and important member,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “The Iranian authorities should allow the center to reopen and investigate why it was raided in the first place.”
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Human Rights Watch expressed serious concerns of further persecution and possible prosecutions of Ebadi and DHRC members. In similar cases, Iranian authorities have frequently followed office raids and other harassment with arbitrary arrests and detention, often leading to prosecutions on dubious charges. Currently, Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, founder of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, is serving a 10-year prison sentence solely for his activities as a human rights defender.
Narges Mohammadi, DHRC’s spokesperson, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that nearly 300 human rights defenders and supporters had been invited to the private celebration. She said a few hours before the start of the program, at around 3 p.m., she arrived at DHRC’s office to find dozens of police, members of state security forces, and plainclothes agents attempting to enter the building.
According to Mohammadi: “I asked them to produce a search warrant, but instead the commander told me, ‘My uniform is the legal basis, I don’t need to give you any warrant.’ As I was discussing the issue with the uniformed officer in charge, a plainclothes agent physically approached and threatened me while shouting insults. Police agents quickly restrained him and moved him away while he was shouting at me, ‘If you were not a woman, I would drag your legs and throw you into the street.’”
The government agents entered the office while Mohammadi, Ebadi, and two other DHRC members were present. The agents filmed the premises, made an inventory, and forced the center’s members to leave before putting locks on all entrances.
Security forces videotaped guests as they arrived for the event, and prevented them from approaching the building. They also confiscated journalists’ cameras. “Plainclothes agents attacked and intimidated guests. In one instance, they beat a member of DHRC, Hadi Esmailzadeh, on his chest and head and took his mobile telephone away. Their behavior was violent and vulgar,” Mohammadi said.
“If Shirin Ebadi and DHRC cannot hold a simple event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then no Iranian citizen has any security to talk about or advocate for human rights,” said Hadi Ghaemi, spokesperson for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “This is a litmus test for the Iranian government’s tolerance of human rights defenders, and its results show ‘zero tolerance.’”
DHRC’s mission statement describes its primary duties as “pro-bono legal defense of prisoners of conscience,” “supporting families of prisoners of conscience,” and “documentation and reporting of human rights abuses.”
The government of Iran has an affirmative obligation to protect rights advocates. The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which the UN’s General Assembly adopted by consensus in 1998, declares that states “shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of [human rights defenders] against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary actions” as a consequence of their legitimate effort to promote human rights.
For more information, please contact:
In New York, Hadi Ghaemi (English, Persian): +1-917-669-5996 (mobile)
In New York, Sarah Leah Whitson (English): +1-212-216-1230; or +1-718-362-0172 (mobile)
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