ايران امروز

اعتراض به افزايش نقض آزادى انديشه و بيان در ايران

قطعنامه انجمن بين‌المللى قلم در رابطه با اعتراض به افزايش نقض آزادى انديشه و بيان در ايران

كنگره ساليانه انجمن بين‌المللى قلم International PEN كه در تاريخ ۱۷-۲۲ سپتامبر ۲۰۰۸ در بوگوتا پايتخت كلمبيا برگزار شد، طى قطعنامه‌اى با رأی مطلق به افزايش نقض آزادى انديشه و بيان در ايران و ادامه‌ى تهديد، محاكمه و حبس نويسندگان و روزنامه‌نگاران در ايران اعتراض كرد. در اين قطعنامه نسبت به اعمال سانسور و ممانعت از انتشار صدها كتاب، فشار بر ناشران، و وجين كردن كتاب‌ها از كتاب‌خانه‌ها ابراز نگرانى شده است. قطعنامه این کنگره همچنين محاکمه‌ی يعقوب يادعلى، حكم حبس شش ماهه‌ى پروين اردلان، و حکم زندان یازده سال برای محمد صديق كبودوند را تقبيح كرده است.

اين قطعنامه خواستار آزادى فورى و بى قيد و شرط تمامى نويسندگان و روزنامه‌نگاران در بند ايران شده که در مغايرت با ماده‌ى ۱۹ پيمان‌نامه‌ى بين‌المللى حقوق اجتماعى و سياسى شهروندان مى‌‌باشد كه ايران نيز از جمله امضاء‌كنندگان آن پيمان‌نامه است.

ايران امروز

Resolution on Iran by
The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at its 74th International Congress in Bogota, Colombia, 17-22 September 2008

Alarmed about the increasing and widespread violations of the right to freedom of expression in Iran, in which writers and journalists continue to be threatened, summoned to the revolutionary courts and detained. The aggressive use of Internet censorship places bloggers are at risk arrest.

Deeply concerned that the authorities have banned the publishing of hundreds of books including those that have already appeared once or several times in print, and have used this policy to pressure independent publishers; books have also been removed from libraries;
Further concerned that writers, journalists and others detained in violation of their right to freedom of expression have been tortured in pre-trial detention, held for weeks in solitary confinement and denied basic due process rights;
Noting that Iran imprisons the highest number of journalists in the Middle East, violating their rights to freedom of expression and to a fair trial, and often with long periods of incommunicado detention;
Dismayed that the judicial authorities continue to ban writers and journalists from visiting other countries;
Troubled by the state crackdown on women’s activists and women writers and journalists, which has resulted in dozens being arbitrarily detained, including journalist and honorary member of Swedish PEN Parvin Ardalan who was sentenced to six months imprisonment for her participation in peaceful gatherings. She was prevented from leaving Iran to receive the 2007 Olof Palme prize in Sweden.

Worried by the rise of internet censorship, and the crackdown on Iranian “bloggers” who write and post information on the Internet,

Deeply concerned that novelist Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced for his fictional writings. His case has still not been dismissed by the Revolutionary Court in Iran.

Deeply concerned about an apparant pattern of repression against journalists and human rights activists in Iranian Kurdistan, in which several Iranian-Kurdish journalists are currently detained, including Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand, editor of the banned weekly Payam-e mardom-e Kurdestan, who was arrested on 1 July 2007 and sentenced at a closed trial on 22 June 2008 to 11 years in prison

Calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all writers and journalists detained in Iran in violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Politcal Rights, to which Iran is a signatory.