Elise Auerbach
October 19, 2016
Thanks to your untiring efforts, we have received a few pieces of good news on Iran the past couple of months.
First of all Omid Kokabee, the talented young physicist pursuing doctoral research at the University of Texas, Austin who had been arrested in January 2011 and sentenced to ten years in prison on unsubstantiated national security charges, was granted a conditional release from prison; he had been out of prison on a medical furlough for several months to receive much needed medical care--including an operation to remove a kidney--and will not have to report back to prison.
In
another victory, women's rights activist and student activist Bahareh
Hedayat was released from prison in early September. She had originally
been arrested in late 2009 and Amnesty activists and partners had been
working tirelessly on her case ever since. She was sentenced to a total
of ten years in prison on spurious charges and was a prisoner of
conscience.
Now for two calls to action.
2) Please sign yourself or your group up for Amnesty International's annual Write4Rights, which is taking place between now and December 31. One of the cases this year is Zeynab Jalalian, another Iranian-Kurdish woman who had been sentenced to death on charges of ties to a militant Kurdish group after an unfair trial that lasted just a few minutes. Her sentence was eventually commuted to life in prison. She was severely tortured in detention and is now going blind. We need to get her the medical attention she needs so she does not lose her eyesight. http://write.amnestyusa.org/?
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