Iranian human rights defender Omid Alishenas has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison in poor conditions for more than six months. He is serving a seven-year prison sentence for his peaceful human rights work, which includes campaigning against the death penalty. He is a prisoner of conscience.
Iranian human rights defender Omid Alishenas has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison in poor conditions for more than six months. He is serving a seven-year prison sentence for his peaceful human rights work, which includes campaigning against the death penalty. He is a prisoner of conscience. 1) TAKE ACTION Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:- Calling on the Iranian authorities to release Omid Alishenas immediately and unconditionally, as he is a prisoner of conscious, held solely for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly;
- Calling on them to take immediate steps to address the poor conditions of Evin prison in line with UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and allow national and international monitors to conduct inspection visits to Evin prison;
- Reminding them of their obligation to explicitly recognize the legitimacy of human rights defenders and ensure a safe and enabling environment in which it is possible to defend and promote human rights without fear of punishment, reprisal or intimidation.
Contact these two officials by 3 August, 2017:
Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadeghi Larijani c/o Public Relations Office Number 4, Deadend of 1 Azizi Above Pasteur Intersection Vali Asr Street, Tehran, Iran Salutation: Your Excellency
Office of the Supreme Leader Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10017 Fax: (212) 867-7086 I Phone: (212) 687-2020 Email: [email protected] Salutation: Your Excellency
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