Reverse Harsh Life Sentences for Iranian Gonabadi Dervishes Hamid-Reza Arayesh, Kazem Dehghan, Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan and Hamid Reza Arayesh, and Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan!
- Target:
- United Nations, Ban ki-Moon, European Union, OHCHR, Navi Pillay, European Parliament, State Dept
- Region:
- Iran
- Website:
- www.majzooban.org
On October 14, 2013 it was reported that Branch 2 of Shiraz Revolutionary Court issued verdicts against three Gonabadi Dervishes, Messrs. Hamid Reza Arayesh, Kazem Dehghan and Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan, sentencing all of them to life in exile. They are charged with "moharebeh (enmity with God)", "spreading corruption on the earth", "membership in illegal group (being Dervish/ friary!) and "assembly and collusion with the intent to disrupt national security".
Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad had an interview with Hamid-Reza Arayesh who is temporarily released from Shiraz's Adel-Abad prison about this extremely harsh sentence for the three Gonabadi Dervishes. To hear the interview (for Farsi speakers only):
http://youtu.be/oyqe7edPKZ8
WHEREAS: Hamid Reza Arayesh, Kazem Dehghan and Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan have all been charged with politically and ideologically based "crimes", and have clearly been sentenced solely for their peaceful exercise of their internationally-recognized rights to religious freedom;
AND WHEREAS: The sentences of exile-for-life are extremely harsh even by the dismal standards of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary courts;
THEREFORE: We, the undersigned, demand that the international community bring all possible pressure to bear upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to IMMEDIATELY and UNCONDTIONALLY rescind these sentences and vacate all charges brought against them.
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The Reverse Harsh Life Sentences for Iranian Gonabadi Dervishes Hamid-Reza Arayesh, Kazem Dehghan, Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan and Hamid Reza Arayesh, and Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan! petition to United Nations, Ban ki-Moon, European Union, OHCHR, Navi Pillay, European Parliament, State Dept was written by John S. Burke and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.