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Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi: Prisoner of the day
RAHANA: Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi is a Nematollahi Gonabadi dervish who is the caretaker for the cemetery of Sufi leaders, Mazar-e Soltani, in Bidokht, Gonabad. As a measure to put pressure on Gonabadi Dervishes, they were banned from burying their dead in their designated cemeteries a few years ago. The reason for Zare Haghighi's prosecution was that he had allowed some burials in the Bidokht graveyard.
Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi was first sentenced to four years in prison in 2009, following a fresh wave of crackdown on the Gonabadi Dervishes. His sentence was later reduced to seven months in prison at appeals stage. Security forces arrested Zare Haghighi on 9 June 2011 in Bidokht and later transferred him to Mashad's notorious Vakilabad Prison, "for security concerns," to start serving his prison term.
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They aren't even religious minorities
by Soosan Khanoom on Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:36 PM PSTThey are muslims... just not into VF's book club so I guess that then justifies any harassment they are enduring ... in any case, dear Zendanaian, thanks for posting this petition ...
Defend and Support Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi!
by Zendanian on Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:22 PM PSTSample Protest letter:
Please take a moment to send this protest letter or use your own version:
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Free Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi!
I (we) am (are) writing this to condemn persecution and harrasment of religious minorities in Iran. Religious minorities in Iran are being
constantly harassed and arrested by the Iranian government authorities.
In particular, this letter is written to express my (our) serious
concern about the health and well being of Mr. Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi who has
been unjustly incarcerated, serving a four years sentence in Vakilabad prison of Mashhad .
I (we) condemn the continuous gross attacks on all
religious minorities in Iran. I (we) demand the immediate and unconditional
freedom of Mr. Gholamabbas Zare Haghighi, and all other political prisoners,
and call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect the right of all
Iranians to organize, assemble and freedom of religion, association and
expression.
Name:
Organization:
Position:
Send Copy of your Protest Letters to:
info@leader.ir, info@judiciary.ir, dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir; iran@un.int; ijpr@iranjudiciary.org, info@dadiran.ir, office@justice.ir, support@irimlsa.ir; info@humanrights-iran.ir
Outrages and so painful
by Soosan Khanoom on Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:58 AM PSTI have this to say to IRR : keep digging your own grave ...
Interim Report of Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran
by Shifteh Ansari on Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:50 AM PSTAlso, Bavafa,
In Ahmed Shaeed, UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran's Interim Report, under the section "D. Religious and Ethnic Minorities," it says:
"63. Sufi Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Iran are also subjected to limitations on their freedom of religion and various forms of religious discrimination. This is particularly true of members of the Shia Sufi order, Nematollahi Gonabadi. Authorities sentenced Gholam-Abbas Zare-Haqiqi, a Gonabadi leader, to four years in prison in October 2009, for allowing a burial at Sufi cemeteries, a banned practice. On 13 April 2011, authorities arrested eight Gonabadi dervishes by the names of Abdolreza Kashani, Shokrollah Hosseini, Alireza Abbasi, Ali Kashanifar, Mohammad Marvi, Nazarali Marvi, Ramin Soltankhah and Zafarali Moghimi. The men had been part of a group of dervishes previously sentenced to five months in prison, 50 lashes and one year’s exile on charges of “disrupting public order”, mainly for assembling in front of the Gonabad Justice Department and prison to protest the detainment of a leader of the order."
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Prisoners of Conscience
by Shifteh Ansari on Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:19 AM PSTDear Bavafa,
Because of its repressive and discriminatory rule, the Islamic Republic does not just imprison its political activists, journalists, student activists, civil society activists, labor unionists, and human rights activists. It also persecutes and abuses and imprisons minority groups, whether religious minorities, ethnic minorities, and people who have personal beliefs different from the ruling ideology. The first group are called "political prisoners." The second group are called "prisoners of conscience." In the second group, there are, for example, Christians, Zoroastrians, Bahai's, and dervishes, people who often times are not involved in politics, but are targeted because they believe differently.
My observation is that people appearing as "Prisoners of the Day" could be either political prisoners or prisoners of conscience.
Doorood bar tamame Iranian e mobarez...
by Bavafa on Sun Feb 19, 2012 08:47 AM PSTI am not sure if this case falls under political prisoner status or simply a criminal type case, nevertheless the lack of an independent and credible justice system in Iran under IRI ought to make all cases void until such system can be established in Iran.
But surely there are thousands of brave Iranians serving lengthy sentence just for seeking their basic rights as a human being and as a citizen. They need our support for their immediate and unconditional freedom
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Mehrdad