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Please find enclosed Communication 1 on Mr. Huseyn Huseyni for safeguarding his human rights, who is being persecuted arbitrarily by Iranian authorities. His particulars are presented in Table 1*, using published information and those from our own sources.

No: 512/2008
Date: 23 Dec. 2008

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva

Please circulate this letter to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Also this Communication is relevant to the following:

• Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• The Independent Expert on Minority Issues

CC: Mr. Dyke and Mrs. Harrison, Amnesty International, London
Also: Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Server

Dear sir/madam;

COMMUNICATION NO 1 ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER MR. HUSEYN HUSEYNI

Please find enclosed Communication 1 on Mr. Huseyn Huseyni for safeguarding his human rights, who is being persecuted arbitrarily by Iranian authorities. His particulars are presented in Table 1*, using published information and those from our own sources.

Mr. Huseyni is from the Southern Azerbaijani city of Sulduz (Naqadeh), west Azerbaijan province, and has been arbitrarily deprived of his liberty by Iranian authorities. He was arrested during his participation in the Settar Khan’s anniversary, where he was simply exercising his human rights while fully complying with the laws of the Iranian authorities. He is now kept in Evin prison, Tehran. He has also suffered arbitrary detentions in the past but we were unable to document his cases due to our resource limitations.

We would like to stress that in compiling this Communication, we have not consulted with Mr. Huseyni’s family or anyone else for that matter. It is necessary to mention this to manage the risk of reprisal by the Iranian authorities against him and his family.

Mr. Huseyni has been deprived of access to a lawyer and his right to contact his family members has also been suppressed. All the means of defending his human rights have been exhausted and therefore we appeal to your urgent attention. Thank you in advance for your care.

Yours faithfully,
Eli Tashkent
For and on behalf of
The Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis

* For details, please [1] click here