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Release the Azerbaijani (Civil and Cultural Rights Advocates in Iran)
2010- 29 -8
From the beginning of the spring of this year tens of Azerbaijani civil and cultural rights advocates in different cities including Tabriz, Tehran, Karaj, Urmieh, Ardebil, Miandoab, Makoo, Kaleibar, Meshkinshahr, Khoy and Soofian, have been arrested and imprisoned . Although some of them have been bailed out, yet a group consisting of Hamideh Farajzadeh, Zahra Farajzadeh (women’s rights activists), Akbar Azad (writer and journalist), Hasan Rahimi Bayat (human rights activist), Hosein Nasiri, Dr. Alireza Abdollahi, Dr. Latif Hasani, Mahmood Fazli, Shahram Radmehr, Ayat Mehrali Beigloo, Behbood Gholizadeh, Aydin Khajei, Bahman Nasirzadeh, Heidar Karimi, Naim Ahmadi, Yunes Soleimani and Shokrollah Qahremani Fard – all of them Azerbaijani civil rights activists – have been in solitary confinement averagely for three months. This is while Saeid Matinpoor, Ali Abbasi, Vadud Saadati, Rahim Gholami and Behrooz Alizadeh have been in prison since last year. Lately, also Hanie Farshi Shotorban has been arrested and added to the previous collection.
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