Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch

Ramin Naseh a 23 year old student and the secretary in charge of Khuzestan branch of Iran National Front (INF), has been arrested in Ahwaz before a student gathering for Dr.Varjavand one of the leaders and the spokesman for INF.

Ramin Naseh is one of the most active members of INF and a writer at several independent publications.

So far the Islamic Republic has refused to release Ramin Nasseh's whereabouts.

This is just another dark chapter in the Islamic Republics long record of human rights violations. Amnesty International's latest report on Iran has cited just a few of this these violations as follow:

In Iran scores of students, academics and journalists, along with a number of lawyers, were arrested and faced politically motivated criminal charges based on vague worded defamation or security provisions. Such arrests were part of the clampdown on freedom of expression and association led by judicial officials. Reports of ill treatment and torture continued to be received without any sign of independent investigation. At least 113 individuals were executed, including long-term political prisoners and in particular those connected with illegal parties supporting the Kurdish minority. They included two people reportedly executed by stoning. At least 84 individuals were flogged, many in public.


We consider Ramin Nasseh a prisoner of conscience and demand his immediate release. Furthermore, we urge all Iranians and other freedom loving citizens around the globe to join us in this protest by signing this petition and writing to the following authorities and offices on this very urgent and critical matter.

Human Rights Watch: 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10118-3299 USA
Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700, Fax: 1-(212) 736-1300
hrwnyc@hrw.org

International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 99-119 Rosebery Avenue London, EC1R 4RE United Kingdom. Tel : +44(0)2078146200 Fax : +44(0)2078331510

Supreme Leader: Ayatollhah Seyed Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, Pastor Ave. Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tel. (98 21) 61341

The President: Hojjatoleslam Sayed Mohammad Khatami - The Presidency, Palestine Avenue, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran , Email: khatami@president.ir Fax: + 98 21 649 5880 (please ask for the fax to be forwarded to President Khatami) Or by visiting: http://www.salamiran.org/IranInfo/State/Presidency/Mail_President.html

Head of Judiciary: Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi, Head of the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, Park-e Shahr, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ambassador M. Javad Zarif, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. Email: jzarif@un.int , 622 Third Ave. New York, NY 10017 Tel: (212) 687-2020 / Fax: (212) 867-7086

Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in U.S., Embassy of Pakistan , 2209 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. Washington D.C. 20007 Tel: (202) 965-4990, Fax: (202) 965-1073

Iranian Ambassador to Canada , Mohammad A. Mousavi, Ph.D. 245 Metcalfe St. Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2K2 Canada Tel: (613) 235-4726 Fax: (613) 232-5712 , Email: ambassador@iranembassy.org

The Honorable Kofi Annan, Secretary General, the United Nations, New York, NY 10017 Fax # (212) 963-4879

Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, Fax # 41 22 917 9022 E-mail: tb-petitions@ohchr.org

Mr. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, New 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor New York, NY 10118-3299 Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700, Fax: 1-(212) 736-1300 Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org

Mr. Joel Conarroe, President, PEN American Center, 568 Broadway 4th Floor,New York, NY 10012 Tel: (212) 334-1660 Fax: (212) 334-2181 Email: pen@pen.org