PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/077/2008
05 June 2008
UA 157/08 Arbitrary
arrest/fear of torture or other ill-treatment
IRAN Nahid Kalhor (f), aged 21,
student
Student Nahid Kalhor
was arrested on 1 June by officers of the Ministry of Intelligence (Ettela’at).
She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Her whereabouts are unknown,
and she has had no contact with her family or lawyers.
In the morning of 1
June Nahid Kalhor received a phone call telling her to go to the Ettela’at
offices in Qom, the city southwest of Iran where she is studying. The caller
did not identify himself and threatened that her family would be arrested if
she did not go to the Ettela'at offices. She only told her brother and
together they went to the Ettela’at offices where she was arrested,
apparently in relation to her alleged contact with opposition parties outside
Iran.
RECOMMENDED
ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in
Persian, English, Arabic or your own language:
- calling on the
authorities to ensure that Nahid Kalhor is not subjected to torture and other
ill-treatment, and to allow her immediate access to a lawyer of her own
choosing, and any medical treatment she may require;
- asking why exactly
she was arrested; what charges, if any, have been brought against her; and when
any trial will begin;
- calling on the
authorities to release her unless she is to be charged with a recognizably
criminal offence and given a prompt and fair trial.
APPEALS TO:
Head of the
Judiciary
Ayatollah Mahmoud
Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e
Qoveh Qazaiyeh
Pasteur St., Vali Asr
Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737
Islamic Republic of
Iran
Email:
info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (In the subject line write: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi)
Salutation: Your
Excellency
Minister of
Intelligence
Gholam Hossein
Mohseni Ejeie
Ministry of
Intelligence, Second Negarestan Street
Pasdaran Avenue,
Tehran
Islamic Republic of
Iran
Salutation: Your
Excellency
COPIES TO:
Leader of the
Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
The Office of the
Supreme Leader
Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@leader.ir
Salutation: Your
Excellency
and to diplomatic
representatives of Iran accredited to your country.
PLEASE SEND
APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretariat, or your
section office, if sending appeals after 16 July 2008.
