{"id":602,"date":"2011-07-14T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnews.harouta.sg-host.com\/2011\/07\/14\/jailed-iranian-journalist-appeals-to-un-rapporteur\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T09:00:01","slug":"jailed-iranian-journalist-appeals-to-un-rapporteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/07\/14\/jailed-iranian-journalist-appeals-to-un-rapporteur\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Iranian Journalist Appeals To UN Rapporteur"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prominent jailed Iranian journalist has urged a newly appointed UN human rights investigator to visit Iran as soon as possible in order to inform the world about the “heinous acts” committed in the country’s prisons, RFE\/RL’s Radio Farda reports.<\/p>\n

Isa Saharkhiz, a journalist and member of the Association for the Defense of Press Freedom, wrote in a letter to Ahmed Shaheed that “what is happening in the prisons of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] is a crime against humanity no less than the inhumane measures [implemented by Soviet leader Josef] Stalin in Siberian concentration camps.”<\/p>\n

Saharkhiz wrote that “the strategy of this regime is to kill protesting prisoners silently and gradually…for they are afraid of us being alive, even behind these bars and walls.”<\/p>\n

Iran has said it would not accept a visit by Shaheed, who was appointed the UN special rapporteur on human rights to Iran last month.<\/p>\n

Saharkhiz was arrested during the post-presidential election crackdown in July 2009. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, a five-year ban on engaging in political and journalistic activities, and a one-year ban on leaving Iran after his release.<\/p>\n

The charges brought against him included insulting Iran’s supreme leader and “spreading propaganda against the regime.”<\/p>\n

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A prominent jailed Iranian journalist has urged a newly appointed UN human rights investigator to visit Iran as soon as possible in order to inform the world about the “heinous acts” committed in the country’s prisons, RFE\/RL’s Radio Farda reports.<\/p>\n

Isa Saharkhiz, a journalist and member of the Association for the Defense of Press Freedom, wrote in a letter to Ahmed Shaheed that “what is happening in the prisons of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] is a crime against humanity no less than the inhumane measures [implemented by Soviet leader Josef] Stalin in Siberian concentration camps.”<\/p>\n

Saharkhiz wrote that “the strategy of this regime is to kill protesting prisoners silently and gradually…for they are afraid of us being alive, even behind these bars and walls.”<\/p>\n

Iran has said it would not accept a visit by Shaheed, who was appointed the UN special rapporteur on human rights to Iran last month.<\/p>\n

Saharkhiz was arrested during the post-presidential election crackdown in July 2009. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, a five-year ban on engaging in political and journalistic activities, and a one-year ban on leaving Iran after his release.<\/p>\n

The charges brought against him included insulting Iran’s supreme leader and “spreading propaganda against the regime.”<\/p>\n

Source: RFE\/RL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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