After 30 days of hunger strike Abbas Lesani (Azarbaijani political activist) ends his hunger strike.

Dear Ladies and Sirs,

Mr Abbas LISANI an Iranian Azerbaijani activist for human rights has begun a hunger strike since 5 weeks ago in Central Prison of Ardabil in protest against the harassment of his family, and against the Prison authorities’ refusal to grant him short-term leave according to the article 216 of Iranian Prison Regulations.

Considered by Amnesty international as a prisoner of conscience, Monsieur LISANI is detained

According to ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency), Akbar Alami, Member of Parlament, said that the physical condition of Abbas Lesani is critical, according to his family.

We would like to draw your attention to the urgent medical needs of Mr. Abbas Leysanli, verified by Amnesty International to be a prisoner of conscience. His medical needs stem from an ongoing hunger strike that he resorted to as the final remaining measure for safeguarding his human rights. He is now extremely vulnerable and as colleagues of MSF, we, the Union of Azerbaijani Doctors and Academics (UADA) and also DunAzHAK, request your involvement.

Mr. Leysanli is a protagonist of the national movement of Southern Azerbaijan, Iran, but imprisoned by Iranian authorities for not

Protesting in front of the embassy of IRAN in Baku. Calling for release of Mr. Abbas Lesani, one of Azerbaijani political prisoners which is in hunger strike since the 1st of January.

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The Committee for Abbas Lisani’s Rights asks you to express your concern about inhuman detention conditions of Mr Abbas Lisani and call on Iranian Government to provide Mr Lisani with medicare.

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Mr. Leysanli is a protagonist of the national movement of Southern Azerbaijan, Iran, but imprisoned by Iranian authorities for not complying with the racist policies spearheaded by the Islamic Republic of Iran. By way of background, we suffice to mention the fact that the depth of the Southern Azerbaijani struggle against Iranian racism can be highlighted in terms of the banned status of our mother tongue since 1926.

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Fakhteh Zamani is the director of an Azeri-Iranian human rights group based in Canada. She says that in Iran today, “all minorities, including Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Arabs, and others are deprived of their basic right to live in freedom and express their cultural differences.” Ms. Zamani says, “those who demand respect for their culture are subject to humiliation, arrest and persecution.”

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Abba Lesani has started his hunger strike against unlawful condition of his arrest. Since 1st of January 2006 Mr. Lesani is in hunger strike in his freezing cell in Ardabil prison.

To call him to stop the strike, we ask you to sign the petition below. Our nation needs her children.

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Iran’s internal fabric is comprised of the following ethnic groups:

1-Persians, who largely dominate the country’s political institution, in addition to its culture, literature and official language.

2-Azeris, (Azerbaijani) who share the same faith of the current regime and who have noticeable control of the trade markets (bazaars) in Tehran and other major cities.

3-Kurds, who are mainly spread in northwestern Iran, or what the Kurds refer to as Eastern Kurdistan, the most prominent cities of which are Mehebad (Mahabad), Sine (Saqqez), Karmanshah and Sardasht.

4-Arabs, who live in Khuzestan, or what is referred to by Arab Iranians as ‘Arabistan’. The most renowned cities of which are Ahvaz (Ahwaz) and Khorramshahr, and some parts in the eastern coast of the Gulf.

5-Turkmen, who are spread out in southern Turkmenistan.

6-Baloch, who live in the areas of Kerman and Zahedan.

Additionally, there exist independent tribal groups whose allegiances are divided between the Farsi, Azerbaijani and Kurdish nationalities such as the Bakhtiari and the Lur. The truth is no census exists with an accurate record of the existing ethnicities in Iran – especially since the governmental institution

Finally, as you would recall from our meeting on 10 January 2007 with your Special Raporteurs, we provided contact details of a number of activists and some of those prisoners of conscience who have been released on bail or with suspended prison terms. We also gave you telephone numbers of those activists who are knowledgeable on Mr. Leysanli’s situations. We therefore request your kind attention to this issue by being active on learning directly for yourselves on the ordeal of Mr. Leysanli’s family and also by facilitating the intervention of the UN representative in Iran on the situation of Mr. Leysanli.

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