Mr. Hamed Omidi a student and a human rights activist who is majoring in Technology at the “Alameh Tabatabi” University in Tehran was arrested last Wednesday, February 17th 2010.
was arrested in the west of Iran on 3 February by plainclothes officials believed to be Revolutionary Guards. He is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for his peaceful human rights activities. His family has not been informed of his whereabouts and he is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.
The Iranian authorities must not execute a Kurdish man on death row whose transfer to solitary confinement last week raises fears that his execution could be imminent, said Amnesty International.
Habibollah Latifi was sentenced to death in July 2008 after he was convicted of moharebeh (enmity against God) in connection with his membership of and activities on behalf of the Kurdish Independent Life Party (PJAK), a banned armed group.
Pain described by a political prisoner and human right activist, Farzad Kamangar. I am Farzad Kamangar, called Siamand, a teacher working in a town named Kamiaran. I have worked as a teacher for 12 years.
