We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned for the 28-year-old political prisoner Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi who, according to current reports, will be executed on May 16 2006 by the Iranian regime.

Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi is a courageous political prisoner now in Gohar Dasht prison in Iran. In 2002, at the age of 22, he was arrested by Iranian intelligence agents allegedly for attempts to join the People's Mujahidin Organization of Iran, an opposition group fighting the Iranian regime.
Once in prison he was kept in solitary confinement for 546 days, and subjected to the harshest physical and psychological tortures.

He was later sentenced to death in a "revolutionary" court where no jury was present and he never had access to a lawyer.

In March 2006 he was told that he will be executed on May 16 2006.

We all respectfully demand that you, who represent us in international fora,take powerful steps to dissuade Teheran from murdering Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi.

We also strongly wish Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi to be released from prison right away.

Basic morality and human decency require us all to spare no effort in saving the young man's life.

This is his last appeal from prison two weeks ago: "I truly believe that freedom, democracy and justice are as vital to human life as the air one breathes. I thus permit myself to ask you not to abandon our just fight against the oppressive regime of the mullahs"