Email to
1. Secretary General of the United Nations
2. The High
Commissioner for Human Rights UN
3. Office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights
4. Javaid Rehman - United Nations Special Rapporteur on
the Situation of Human Rights in Iran
5. Amnesty International Iran Team
14 August 2019
TO ALL FRIENDS AND DIGNATORIES
ARREST AND
DETENTION OF FARANGIS MAZLOUMI (mother of the Iranian activist Soheil
Arabi) BY THE IRANIAN REGIME
News received
from Iran on Monday 22 July 2019 is that Farangis Mazloumi, mother of the
prominent political activist Soheil Arabi from Iran, who has been serving a
seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence since 2013 for criticizing the Iranian
regime on Facebook, has also been arrested by the Iranian regime on Monday 22
July 2019.
Farangis
Mazloumi, was arrested and taken to an unknown location on Monday July 22,
2019, after eight intelligence agents raided the residence of Farangis
Mazloumi’s sister where she was staying.
The
intelligence agents of the regime confiscated both Farangis Mazloumi and her
sister’s cellphones and then took Farangis Mazloumi away to an unknown
location.
In October
2018, Soheil Arabi was sentenced to six more years behind bars, increasing his
total term to 10 years, for engaging in peaceful activism inside the Greater
Tehran Penitentiary where he has been held since February 2018. During this
period he has been subjected to various forms of mental and physical torture.
He has gone on lengthy hunger strikes at least three times to protest against
the brutal mistreatment of prisoners by the prison guards and interrogators.
His mother, Farangis
Mazloumi has been under tremendous pressure during this period and had commute
over long distances to visit her son in prison, but deprived of being able to
visit him every time.
Farangis
Mazloumi previously said, “I am tortured every day and every night.
Will I be alive for 11 more years? How can I bear this suffering? Can my heart
endure all this torture? Is the life and youth of our children so worthless?
Every time I went to court, they gave me an unsympathetic answer. Who will
answer my plea from all this oppression?”
Farangis
Mazloumi’s demand for the release of her son has now resulted her also being imprisoned
by the regime. The only crime she was
guilty off was loving her son!
Recently the
court has granted her $25,000 bail. Taking into consideration the existing
poverty levels in Iran, Farangis Mazloumi is in no way able to afford such a
ridiculous high bail
This travesty of justice is currently rampant
throughout the whole of Iran and the world and in particular the United Nations
and the US need to act decisively against the cruel and inhuman behavior of a
godless theocratic regime.
Kindest Regards
Stes de Necker
Int. Dipl. Amb.
