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16 December 2003
Your
Excellency,
We the undersigned are
very worried about the recent developments taking place in
Iran.
As you are well aware,
since 1979 when Ayatollah Khomeini took over, more than 300 hundred
members of PDKI
alone has been assassinated outside
Iran.
Iranian agents in
Vienna assassinated
Dr.Abdurrahman
Ghassemlou, the then Secretary General of PDK
of Iran and two of his comrades in 1989. Nobody has yet been charged
with these murders.
In September 1992 Iranian
agents in a restaurant in
Berlin in Germany killed Dr Mohammad
Sadegh Sharafkandi,
who replaced Dr. Ghassemlou as the
Secretary General of the PDKI and two of his
friends. The Berlin court in April 1997 confirmed the responsibility
of Iran’s highest authority in the murders.
In October 1996, six members of
PDK of Iran were
handed over to Iranian security police. The fates of these
PDKI activists are
not known, and their families and friends are still awaiting a
statement from the Iranian officials as to whether they are dead or
alive. Their names are: Arshad
reza-ee; Muhammed
Azeez-Ghadderi;
Ibness Muhammed-Poor;
Mozaffar Kazemmi;
Ma’roof Sohrabbi;
and Adnan Ismaeeli.
On the 14th of October 2003, Mr.
Abdulla Hassanzadeh,
the Secretary General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran,
appealed to Kofi
Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, urging him
to use his good offices to ask the Iranian Government about the where
about of these six of PDKI members.
In July 2003, Dr. Manfred
Weidinger the lawyer representing the Dr.
Ghasemlou’s case was kidnapped; and his
body was found two months later in a forest. Although no one claimed
responsibility, it is not too difficult to guess who may be the
perpetrators.
Recent attempts by Kurds in
Iran to draw
attention to their situation have been met with extreme force by the
Iranian Government.
On 16 October
2003, Iranian militias killed three people and wounded many in the
city of Sardasht.
On 27 October, another Kurd was killed. After the funeral procession,
many people are arrested and imprisoned.
The latest killing in
Iran is more telling: In spite of international
appeals, Iranian government executed two PDKI
members, Jalil
Zewai and Ramin
Sharifi.
Zewai was detained in 1994, but hanged on 4 December 2003!.
Mr. Rahimi was a prominent human rights
activist of PDKI. He was arrested 5 months
ago, without a formal trial, they hanged
him on 6 December 2003!
It is quite sinister and
alarming to think that Iranians can kill with impunity. The failure of
outside authorities to take serious action against Iranian political
assassinations has only encouraged them.
We therefore appeal to your
government to take urgent steps at UN Human Rights Commission to
investigate these currents breaches of human rights and if these
complaints are confirmed to be valid, then to ask the UN Security
Council to consider taking sanctions against the Iranian regime.
I look forward to an urgent
and positive response.
Yours sincerely,
Ihsan Qadir
For and on behalf of:
Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iraq) Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (Iraq)
Kurdistan Socialist Party (Turkey)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iran)
YEKITI (Democratic Unity KOMALA
(Revolutionary Toilers
Party of Kurds in Syria)
Organisation of Iranian Kurdistan)
Kurdistan Socialist Democrat Party (Iraq) Kurdistan
Communist Party (Iraq)
Kurdistan Toilers Party (Iraq)
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