Kurdish man, Reza Rasaei, from the Yaresan religious minority, is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising. He has exhausted all legal avenues and could be executed at any moment. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial that relied on his forced “confessions” obtained under torture and other ill-treatment, including beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, and sexual violence.
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contact information:
Head of the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei
c/o Embassy of Iran to the European Union,
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt No. 15, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Supreme Leader ‘Ali Khamenei
c/o Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
622 3rd Ave, 34th floor,
New York, NY 10017
Email: [email protected]
sample letter:
Dear Mr. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei / Your Excellency,
Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei, aged 34, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish and Yaresan ethnic and religious minorities, respectively, is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising of September-December 2022. His death sentence has been sent for implementation, meaning that he could be executed at any moment.
Reza Rasaei was arrested in November 2022. He was subjected to enforced disappearance for the first four months of his detention. According to an informed source, he was interrogated and subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, including electric shocks, suffocation by placing a plastic bag over his head, prolonged suspension, severe beatings, and sexual violence to compel his forced “confessions”. Authorities have denied him access to adequate healthcare, including for torture-related injuries. No investigations are known to have been carried out into his torture allegations.
I urge you to immediately halt any plans to execute Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei, quash his conviction and death sentence, and release him. Pending his release, I urge you to grant him regular access to his family, chosen lawyer, and adequate medical care; protect him from further torture and other ill-treatment; and investigate his torture allegations. Finally, I urge you to grant independent observers access to capital trials connected to protests.
Yours sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
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