ياشاسين آذربايجان - Long live Azerbaijan

International Mother Language Day should have been a celebration day but the Iranian authorities unwisely turned it into the day of violation of human rights. We urge your organisations and other similar ones to document how the Iranian authorities are perpetrating human rights of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. We hope that you will step up your campaign to ensure the unconditional release of the Southern Azerbaijani victims; and to call the Iranian authorities to comply with their international obligations towards the nation of Southern Azerbaijan.

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, please circulate this report to:

· The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (also for Fair Trials)

· The Independent Expert on Minority Issues

· Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

CC Mrs. Harrison, Amnesty International, London

UNESCO and other organisations

Dear Sir/madam

Please find enclosed Release 2 of our report on the various initiatives by the nation of Southern Azerbaijan to celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2007.

The report pools together various information items and aims to project an insight into the ongoing events in the context of the national movement of Southern Azerbaijan and contribute to the mapping of the mindset of the culture of the Iranian racism.

International Mother Language Day should have been a celebration day but the Iranian authorities unwisely turned it into the day of violation of human rights. We urge your organisations and other similar ones to document how the Iranian authorities are perpetrating human rights of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. We hope that you will step up your campaign to ensure the unconditional release of the Southern Azerbaijani victims; and to call the Iranian authorities to comply with their international obligations towards the nation of Southern Azerbaijan.

Thank you in advance for your care

Yours sincerely
Boyuk Resuloglu
The Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis

Report can be downloaded from here:[1] Click

[2] Print

• 25/02/2008 GENERAL COMMUNICATION 2: IRANIAN VIOLATION OF THE MOTHER LANGUAGE OF THE NATION OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN
• 20/02/2008 International Mother Language Day and Iranian security forces violence in Azerbaijan
• 19/02/2009 Azerbaijan Cultural Society of Northern California celebrating International Mother Language Day and International Women’s Day
• 22/02/2007 Arrests Mark International Mother Language Day in Iran
• 16/02/2007 Re: Arbitrarily Detained Southern Azerbaijanis at the Wake of the International Day of Mother Tongue
• 11/02/2008 ACSNC presents: International Mother Language Day and International Women’s Day meeting with Dr. Sedigheh Adalati
• 20/02/2009 Southern Azerbaijan is ready to celebrate International Mother Language Day
• 25/02/2012 ATAY: International Mother Language Day celebrated in Leeds, England
• 23/02/2008 Many Azerbaijanis arrested by Iranian police in International Mother Language day
• 17/02/2012 Celebrating International Mother Language Day, a poster by Erkin Vetenoglu (Photo)

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