GENERAL COMMUNICATION 3: OVERVIEW FOR SIX MONTHS BACKLOG OF VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJANIS BY IRANIAN AUTHORITIES
BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1452 days ago | Sunday, 31st May , 2009 , 22:37 [pm] | Azerbaijan
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. | Since our last Communication (Ref: 512/2008 on 23 December 2008), we have only submitted one Communication (Ref: 513/2008 on 13 March 2009) but we admit that this is completely disproportionate with the ordeals |
No.: 515/2009
Date: 31 May 2009
The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva,
Please circulate this letter to:
• The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• The Independent Expert on Minority Issues
CC Mr. Drewery Dyke and Mrs. Ann Harrison, Amnesty International, London
Also: Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Server
Dear Sir/Madam,
GENERAL COMMUNICATION 3: OVERVIEW FOR SIX MONTHS BACKLOG OF VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJANIS BY IRANIAN AUTHORITIES
Since our last Communication (Ref: 512/2008 on 23 December 2008), we have only submitted one Communication (Ref: 513/2008 on 13 March 2009) but we admit that this is completely disproportionate with the ordeals inflicted on human rights of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan by the ruling Iranian authorities. Due to the limitations of resources, our backlog consists of:
1. Communications on individual Southern Azerbaijani activists: as we are unable to provide you communications for individuals whose human rights have been violated by the Iranian authorities; Table 1 compiles summary basic information instead.
2. Updates on our previous communications: despite the release of some of the Southern Azerbaijani prisoners of conscience, their human rights are being violated whilst in freedom. For instance, there was insistence by the Iranian authorities ordering Mr. Abbas Leysanli to change the name of his business from Chenli Bel (Azerbaijani words meaning Misty Outskirts but has the connotation of Camelot).
3. Implications of the ongoing presidential campaign on national rights of Southern Azerbaijan: this year the campaign for presidential elections in Iran has created a curious situation, as the National Movement of Southern Azerbaijan is a force to be reckoned with but the Iranian authorities are still spearheading with their singular racist policy in favour of the Farsi-speaking nation. The added dimension in this round of electioneering campaigns are (i) one of the candidates, Dr Ekber E’lemi (Akbar Aalami), was a past Member of the Iranian Parliament representing Tebriz, who acknowledges himself to be an Iranian national but of ethnic Azerbaijani, and (ii) Dr E’lemi is renowned to have a high personal integrity, unusual for Iranian politicians and therefore at disadvantage for his nomination to be ratified; (iii) he was therefore enigmatic for the Iranian authorities, as Dr E’lemi’s personal integrity was a threat to arbitrary governance established by nebulous Iranian Hezbollah paramilitary forces; and (iv) Dr E’lemi criticised the Iranian system but swore his allegiance to Azerbaijan, though his reform package was tantamount to overhauling the Farsi hegemony. In spite of this, a group of Azerbaijani activists pledged their support to Dr E’lemi but the Iranian authorities contrived an ambiguous outcome for not ratifying Dr E’lemi candidature violating his human rights. We are due to submit a Communication to this end.
4. The response to an ongoing explicit insult by the former Iranian president Khatami on the national integrity of Azerbaijan: Iranian authorities have done it again by contriving another racist insult to the national integrity of Azerbaijan, reminiscent of the episode in May 2006! The centre of controversy in this episode is Mr. Khatami, a former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who uttered words of jokes, unworthy of a president, particularly a president who prides himself for his international engagement on the so called the dialogue of civilisations. He may have issued a flimsy denial of the published film but this is far from truth and we are preparing a Communication on the skilful reaction of Southern Azerbaijan, balancing their fury with measured protests.
We hope that the above provides you with a glimpse of ongoing events, where the Iranian authorities are spearheading their singular policies to promote their so called “Aryan†race. We are keen on your awareness for the national and human rights of Southern Azerbaijan. We 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, [1] please click here
, Voice of a Nation[2] Print
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- 18/02/2013 DUNAZHAK: General Communication related to the escalation of aggression by the Iranian authorities against Azerbaijanis in Southern Azerbaijan
- 19/06/2010 Briefing Note: FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAY 2006 MASS PROTESTS IN SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN AGAINST IRANIAN RACISM
- 14/12/2008 COMMUNICATION No. 2 CAMPAIGN FOR THE RESTORATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF MRS. QULAMI
- 08/11/2011 GENERAL COMMUNÄ°CATÄ°ON 1: ARBITRARY SENTENCING OF SOUTHERN AZERBAIJANI FOOTBALL FANS BY THE IRANIAN AUTHORITIES
- 10/06/2009 COMMUNICATION 1: AMBIGUOUS APPROACH OF IRANIAN AUTHORITIES TO Dr. E’LEMI’S CANDITATURE TO IRANIAN PRESENTIAL ELECTIONS
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