Human rights activist Saeed Shirzad has been detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison for four months, without access to his lawyer. He has been accused of having contact with political prisoners’ families and cooperating with the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. He is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his peaceful human rights activism.
Saeed Shirzad, a 27-year-old human rights activist and an active member of the Society for Defending Street and Workin
Saeed Shirzad, a 27-year-old human rights activist and an active member of the Society for Defending Street and Workin
Children, has been detained since 2 June 2014. He spent over two months in solitary confinement inSection 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, without access to his family and lawyer and under pressure to make a videotaped “confession”, before he was transferred to Section 8, where people jailed for non-political crimes are held.
His lawyer has not been allowed to meet him in prison or even access his court file.
The authorities have not yet issued a formal indictment against Saeed Shirzad but they told him of the charges against him when they took him to the Prosecutor’s Office in Evin Prison on 18 August. These include “gathering and colluding against national security” and “propaganda against the system.' These charges appear to relate to his peaceful human rights activities, which include, according to the accusations leveled by the authorities, contact with the families of political prisoners and cooperation with the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran.
His lawyer has not been allowed to meet him in prison or even access his court file.
The authorities have not yet issued a formal indictment against Saeed Shirzad but they told him of the charges against him when they took him to the Prosecutor’s Office in Evin Prison on 18 August. These include “gathering and colluding against national security” and “propaganda against the system.' These charges appear to relate to his peaceful human rights activities, which include, according to the accusations leveled by the authorities, contact with the families of political prisoners and cooperation with the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran.
Amnesty International urges people to: Write immediately in Persian, English, Spanish or your own language,
Calling on the Iranian authorities to release Saeed Shirzad immediately and unconditionally, as he is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for his peaceful human rights activism,
Urging them to respect his right to the assistance of a lawyer of his choosing at all stages;
Calling on them to ensure that he is protected from all forms of torture and other ill-treatment, and that he is no longer held in solitary confinement or coerced to make a “confession”;
Reminding them of the UN Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners which require the separation of the different categories of prisoner,
Calling on the Iranian authorities to release Saeed Shirzad immediately and unconditionally, as he is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for his peaceful human rights activism,
Urging them to respect his right to the assistance of a lawyer of his choosing at all stages;
Calling on them to ensure that he is protected from all forms of torture and other ill-treatment, and that he is no longer held in solitary confinement or coerced to make a “confession”;
Reminding them of the UN Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners which require the separation of the different categories of prisoner,
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