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Update 11: FORCED DEPORTATION OF MR. LEYSANLI FROM SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN TO FARSI-SPEAKING PROVINCES OF IRAN

BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1913 days ago | Monday, 24th March , 2008 , 22:34 [pm] | Azerbaijan

. We regret to bring to your urgent attention that the Iranian authorities have now deported Mr. Leysanli from Eher prison, approximately 100Km from his hometown Erdebil, to the remote location of the central Yazd prison (approximately 2000Km away), in Farsi-speaking provinces of Iran. The deportation took place on 6 March, at which time Mr. Leysanli declared a hunger strike as a last resort for protesting against the violations of his human rights. The Iranian authorities used violence and intimidation in the process of deportation by their loyal Farsi-speaking units specially deployed for the occasion. This episode of deportation has exposed the true nature of the relationships between Southern Azerbaijan and the Iran, as follows:

No: 488/2008
Date: 24 March 2008

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva

Please circulate this letter to (i) The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (also for Fair Trials) and (ii) Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. It is also of interest to:

• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• 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,

Update 11: FORCED DEPORTATION OF MR. LEYSANLI FROM SOUTHERN AZERBAIJAN TO FARSI-SPEAKING PROVINCES OF IRAN

Please find enclosed Update 11 to our Communication 1 on Mr. Leysanli, which was lodged originally as a complaint (Ref: 378/2006 on 31 August 2006), and followed by a series of Updates and Bulletins. In Update 10 (Ref: 478/2008 on 13 January 2008) we informed you of his transfer to Eher prison, in Southern Azerbaijan. Since then the Iranian authorities have kept violating his human rights in every possible ways including creating obstacles to visits by his family members and keeping him in freezing cell conditions. This Update brings to your attention the very last straw drawn by Iranian authorities to make total their aversion to his human rights, who always complies with international law and has never broken Iranian laws even though he and his nation are victims of Iranian legislation and their implementations.

We regret to bring to your urgent attention that the Iranian authorities have now deported Mr. Leysanli from Eher prison, approximately 100Km from his hometown Erdebil, to the remote location of the central Yazd prison (approximately 2000Km away), in Farsi-speaking provinces of Iran. The deportation took place on 6 March, at which time Mr. Leysanli declared a hunger strike as a last resort for protesting against the violations of his human rights. The Iranian authorities used violence and intimidation in the process of deportation by their loyal Farsi-speaking units specially deployed for the occasion. This episode of deportation has exposed the true nature of the relationships between Southern Azerbaijan and the Iran, as follows:

• If the May 2006 Mass Protests exposed a lack of power base for the Iranian rule in Southern Azerbaijan, this episode exposed that Iranian agents of Southern Azerbaijani origin do not obey their masters blindfolded and they have some loyalty left towards their own people.
• Thus, the Iranian authorities have, in reality, kidnapped a national leader of Southern Azerbaijan to inflict on him bodily harm in medieval-style.

We believe that this episode provides concrete evidence that the Iranian authorities have come to regarding Southern Azerbaijan as their colonial backyard and are now resorting to terrorist acts to silence the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. We hold that that this is unworthy of any body to be granted the status of the “authority.” Detailed information is annexed in Tables 1.1 and 1.2, reproducing Press Releases issued by the Committee for the Defence of Abbas Leysanli.

Our updates to you were related to the Court Cases following the May 2006 Mass Protests but we have already informed you that there are other arbitrary court cases brought against him by Iranian authorities. These are outlined in the table below and further details are annexed in Table 2. We feel it necessary to reclassify our submissions to you in the defence of Mr. Leysanli. Thus, the submissions so far are in relation to Court Cases 5 and 6 and we shall shortly submit Communication 2 in relation to Court Case 3 to be followed by appropriate updates and a numbering system.

Court Cases Pressed by Iranian Authorities against Mr. Abbas Leysanli:

سون-دوروم ۱۱

We are likely not to provide you further Updates on Court Cases 5 and 6. Therefore Table 3 in the annex provides you the log of our updates and other correspondences relating to Mr. Leysanli and Table 4 provide the chronology of most important events whilst Mr. Leysanli served the arbitrary sentence imposed on him.

We believe and hope that you have made representations to the Islamic Republic of Iran to safeguard his human rights and for this we thank you and Amnesty International for your respective roles.

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

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