Human Rights Petitions - Please Sign THEIR LIVES ARE AT RISK: MEET SHAHRAM RADMEHR, ONE OF FIVE IRANIAN AZERBAIJANI PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR OVER THREE WEEKS (LINK TO PETITION FOR ALL FIVE BELOW): Shahram Radmehr, 38, industrial engineer, married, began his activism when he was enrolled in university. He has published numerous articles on the cultural identity rights of Azerbaijanis. He suffers from digestive problems and is currently experiencing bleeding in his stomach. During his interrogation he suffered from headaches so severe that he had fallen unconscious several times. In the investigative report opened for him it notes that he fell unconscious during interrogations and was transferred to the prison clinic. Five Azerbaijani civil rights activists Latif Hasani (43), Mahmud Fezli (45), Shahram Radmehr (38), Ayat Mehr-Ali-Beyli (Yürüş) (35) and Behbud Quluzade (48) started their hunger strike on July 13 in protest to the 9 years sentence each of them were sentenced to in May 2013. The prisoners belong to a group known as the Reawakening National Movement for Southern Azerbaijan (Yenigamoh) and were charges with "formation of an illegal group" and "propaganda against the establishment". The prisoners started their hungers strike in the prison of Tabriz and earlier last week (probably on Tuesday July 23 ) were transferred to Tehran. SIGN THIS PETITION SUPPORTING THEIR FREEDOM: gopetition/petitions/free-5-azerbaijani-political-activists-latif-hassani-mahmoud-fazli-shahram-radmehr-ayat-mehr-ali-bayglu-and-behboud-gholi-zade.html
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 05:10:56 +0000
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