Tarix
(Date): 28 May 2006
Amnesty
International,
London
CC
High Commiserate of Human Rights,
Geneva
Dear
Mrs. Harrison
Re
HESEN AZERBAYCANLI WAS ARRESTED EVEN WHILE SUFFERING FROM HEART PROBLEMS
The
struggle for justice and democracy to
Southern
Azerbaijan
in the form
of mass demonstrations is growing from strength to strength owing to the
determination of one million participants strictly within legal framework. What
our innocent people have done to deserve the savagery and indiscriminate
attacks inflicted by the regime in
Tehran
so eager to
shed blood? The number of our martyrs is mounting and has already reached 25
paying the ultimate price for their nation, the first of which is reportedly a
young woman in Tebriz. This is in against a background where approximately two
thousand of innocent mass demonstrators have been rounded up and suffer
detention. According to our latest information, the brute forces dare against
our elderly demonstrators be it old women and old men or against our youths be
it girls or boys, who are rounded up and are subjected to torture. In particular,
our Azerbaijani community in
Tehran
including our
students are subjected to untold miseries and trauma.
Let
us now consider the case of the distinguished Mr. Hesen Azerbaycan (Azerbaijan),
a 65 year old composer, whose house was raided twice last night and was
transferred to an undisclosed location. He is widely known and it is
everyone’s knowledge that this old man is fully submerged in his world of
Azerbaijani music and culture. His popularity and reputation is deeply rooted
among the whole
Azerbaijan
and yet this
calculated move of arresting him is an impertinent gesture against our people
and a rebuff to the ongoing dialogue of civilisations exposing the Iranian side
of the dialogue to be the policy of coercion and of cowboy diplomacy.
Intelligence agents raiding his home have stolen his computer and two
lorry-loads of Azerbaijani music and books and CDs on the Azerbaijani culture
and linguistics. Above all, these agents have also detained Mr. Azerbaycan’s
son, called Babek.
According
to our information, the police are raiding and rounding up indiscriminately as
long as the individual is a Turk living in
Iran
. We are
writing to you with a matter that is so dear to us and persistently request your
intervention to put an end to this injustice.
A
Glimpse of News from
Tehran
We
would like to add that today on 28 May 2006, the number of innocent Azerbaijani
mass demonstrators were 200 including Mr. Mejid Huseyni. This mass demonstration
was staged in front of the parliament in
Tehran
by Southern
Azerbaijanis who were brutally attacked by security forces
A
Glimpse of News from Erdebil
After
the mass demonstration in Erdebil yesterday, two magazines were shut down and
three of their writers were arbitrarily rounded up and arrested. Their names
are:
- Eli
Nezeri ,
- Riza
Kazimi and
- Eli
Jelil pur.
Yours
Sincerely,
Boyuk
Resuloglu
For
and on behalf of
The
Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the World Azerbaijanis
P.S.
We
would like to add that we have just been provided with a few names of the
participants of the peaceful mass demonstration arrested by security forces.
These include:
- Mrs.
Zohre Mezlumi,
- Sedreddin
Musevi,
- Ramin
Sadiqi,
- Mrs.
Hecer Sultani,
- Mrs.
Feranek Fershbaf,
- Yurush
Elibeyli and
- Heyder
Shadi
According
to our information last night two Southern Azerbaijani students were arrested in
the University Polytechnic of Tehran, whose names are:
- Yashar
Qajar, the Secretary of the student union of this university and arrested on
27 May 2006
- Puya
Heybetulahi arrested today on 28 May 2006, in the morning when leaving the
students residential hall.
According
to the statement released by the Confederation of Azerbaijani Students, the
following students are known to be arrested:
- Sejjad
Niknam, The Chairperson of the Student Union of the
University
of
Urmu
- Mehdi
Hesenzade, th editor of the periodical Ubur
and detained in the Dizelabad Prison
- Mohsun
Elemuti, related to the periodical Ubur
and detained in the Dizelabad Prison