According to the statement issued by Kurdistan Journalist Association in Iran a student was killed while in police custody in the city of Sanandaj. This follows the recent wave of attacks and arrests of many university students in Tehran, Sanandaj and other cities in Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran. So far more than 60 students have been arrested all over the country; many are subjected to torture and denied visits by their families.
Ebrahim Lotfollahi, student at the Payam Noor University in Sanandaj was arrested after leaving the exam room on 5th January 2008 and taken to the office of the Etela-at (secret services) in Sanandaj. The news of his death was given to his family yesterday 16th January 2008. He was tortured and murdered in the cruelest way by the secret service agents.
The general discontent and hatred against the Islamic Republic of Iran is wide spread. Workers’, women’s and student’s movement have in many instants protested against suppression, injustice and violation of civil and social rights. They are demanding the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran and are for establishment of free, equal, secular and a better world. The Islamic Regime in Iran is the cause of poverty, deprivation and suppression. The increasing number of political prisoners in Iran signifies two major events in Iran. The degree of protests against the regime on the one hand and the suppressive nature of the regime which can be summed up by one word: criminal!
What could the United Nations do about this situation? We demand the following:
1-The UN has to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Strongly condemn the arrests and demand the immediate release of all political prisoners in Iran.
2- Send UN representatives to Iran to inspect the prisons and hear what political prisoners and their families say without reprisals from the Iranian authorities.
3- Stop backing criminal states such as the Islamic Republic of Iran. This regime has brought nothing but misery and poverty to the people of Iran and should be thrown out of every international community.
4- The Islamic regime is a criminal regime. It should be expelled from all international organizations.
5- People in Iran demand the Iranian officials be tried at international court of law for crimes against humanity.
