[Mb-civic] FW: ALERT: Yazdi cancels trip to England in fear of arrest.

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:31:19 -0500
Subject: ALERT: Yazdi cancels trip to England in fear of arrest.

PRESS RELEASE


   Crimes against Humanity Charges against Iranian Ebrahim Yazdi

London , March 8,  2005 ­ The Iranian Action Committee, together with
several other prominent Iranians had made necessary preparations to
file charges against Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi for being accessory to acts of
torture and crimes against humanity. The charges were prepared by
British lawyers to be filed on Monday 7 2005, the day that was declared
to be the date of arrival of   Yazdi in London.  The visit was
cancelled without any explanatIon.     Yazdi must have   received
advance information as to preparations for filing of the charges and
his possible arrest  in England.

   Ebrahim Yazdi was the closet associate and the top advisor of
Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris and in Tehran from the start of the
Revolution.

   Ebrahim Yazdi was trained in Yasser Arafat¹s terrorist camps in
Lebanon prior to the Iranian revolution and was the principle architect
and founder of the notorious Revolutionary Guards and the Kangaroo
Revolutionary Courts after the inception of the Islamic Republic of
Iran.  Immediately after his return to Iran with   Khomeini,   Yazdi
was named Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Revelutioary Affairs.

During his term in office,   Yazdi played the main role in turning Iran
into a bloodbath with summary executions and draconian torture
chambers. He also held nationally televised interrogations of those
arrested and paraded those individuals on television ­ with blood
dripping from the mouth of one of them ­ while threatening and
humiliating them. Those individuals included, former Prime Minister
Amir Abass Hoveida, Mr. Salar Jaf ­ a member of the parliament, General
Mehdi Rahimi, General Manouchehr Khosrodad, General Nematollah Nasiri,
General Reza Naji and Dr. Mansour Rohani ­ former Minister of
Agriculture, all of whom were tortured and executed in the initial days
after the Revloution.

    The Iranian Action Committee, which pursues the International Crimes
of the Islamic Republic of Iran (www.iricrimes.org), is composed of 38
Iranian human rights advocates inside Iran and 27 outside Iran.

    The founding organizer of the Committee to Pursue the International
Crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran is Dr. Manouchehr Ganji a former
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and a former Minister
of Education of Iran.

    The petition to bring Dr. Ebrahim Yazdi before the British Courts to
answer to charges of having been accessory to the commission of acts of
torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment of political
prisoners in Iran constituting crimes against humanity was brought by:

1.    The Iranian Action Committee (www.iricrimes.org);
2.    Mrs. Manijeh Rahimi, the wife of deceased General Mehdi Rahimi ;
3.    Dr. Fereidoun Hoveida, the brother of deceased Prime Minister Amir
Abass Hoveida, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iran
to the United Nations ;
4.    Dr. Houshang Nahavandi, the former Chancellor of Tehran University
and former Minister of Science and Higher Education,
5.    Professor Hussein Eshraghi, former Professor at Tehran University ;
6.    Professor Iraj Lalezari, former Dean of the faculty of Pharmacology
at Tehran University ;
7.    Mr. Isac Yomtovian, businessman and a leading member of the
Iranian-Jewish community,
8.    Mr. Rafi Khachtorian, actor and a leading member of the
Iranian-Christian community ;

    The Iranian Action Committee , with the financial support of Iranians
is preparing the grounds for the possible arrest and the detention of
such individuals should they intend to visit any of the countries where
the judicial system allows these individuals to be tried for their
support of acts of torture and murder of political prisoners.

-END-

CONTACT:

Website: www.iricrimes.org


 


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