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Im Vorlauf zu diesem Blogpost wurde dieser post via tweetlonger verbreitet. [Hinzugefügt: es wird jetzt empfohlen, Milliband den Sachverhalt nicht per Twitter zu senden, da er darauf nicht reagiert ... Alle weiteren Seiten haben ein update erhalten ...]On Friday 16th April 2010, @Khoshkeledoc said:
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URGENT - BITA GHAEDI ARRESTED IN UK THIS MORNING #iranelection - PLEASE HELP!I have been advised by Bita's partner that she was arrested this morning in the UK and is now at grave risk of being deported back to Iran where she will most certainly be arrested, putting her life in danger.We managed to obtain nearly 2,700 signatures on our petition earlier this year http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/33778.html which was sent to the UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Before and since that time, Bita has been on hunger strike and is weak and distressed. Here is a review of her situation which details her exploitation both within and outside of Iran which makes her a vulnerable person at this time: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/445707.html
Although Bita has friends who have been connected to the PMOI in the UK, we all know that the regime are currently seeking to exaggerate such connections or even lie that they exist in order to charge innocent people, therefore Bita is in even greater danger should the UK Foreign Office choose to deport her.There is a very strong argument that NO ONE should be forcibly returned to Iran until the corrupt, repressive regime has been replaced by a democratic government and a fair legal system.PLEASE ring David Miliband at his local office on #44191 456 8910 or at the UK Foreign Office on #4420 7008 1500 to ask him to personally intervene to make sure Bita is NOT deported.Please also RT this Twitlonger, copying to @DMiliband and @DowningStreet as well as @SarahBrown10 (The UK Prime Minister's wife who is known for her humanitarian work) to ask them to take action. The UK is coming up to a General Election in a month's time and we need to ensure that the voices of the 50,000 UK Iranians are heard, and their rights upheld.We cannot let ANY Iranian be deported back to a country oppressed by the regime whom we KNOW we will be at risk of arrest, torture and worse at their hands.PLEASE HELP - thank you.
by Maria Rohaly
We at Mission Free Iran have campaigned hard over the past few weeks for Jamal Saberi’s freedom and for his legal status as a refugee to be declared. Because of his activism for human rights and against the Islamic regime, and because his party (Worker-communist Party of Iran) is a vocal opponent of the Islamic regime, Saberi will face certain execution if he is forcibly returned. Yet in violation of its own and international laws, the Japanese government is trying to deport him to Iran.
We were determined to stop Jamal’s deportation to Iran to save his life. But we also believed that by defeating Japan’s bid to deport Saberi to Iran, we could deter other governments from attempting the same illegal act.
Because we knew there would be more cases, and more efforts to break international and national laws against violating the principle of non-refoulement. More attempts by Western governments to appease the Islamic regime by sending its opponents home to be dealt with accordingly: by execution.
And indeed, we have our next case before us: Bita Ghaedi. (You can read about her story here: 1, 2, 3.)
Her life in Iran was circumscribed, bound, tortured, and scarred by the pervasive gender-based violence she experienced. Her political activities with PMOI/MEK/MKO mark her as an opponent of the regime, and also one who will face certain execution upon return to Iran.
She has sought refuge in the UK with viable grounds for establishing refugee status. She has numerous reasons to fear for her life if she is returned, and yet today, David Miliband’s government declared that she would be deported back to Iran this Tuesday, April 20 2010.
Like Jamal Saberi, Bita Ghaedi is first and foremost a human being with human rights. Regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, the lives of these people come first. We must stand up for these people, who have committed no crimes. Their lives are treated, meanly, like pawns on a gameboard. The lion’s share of the shame in this goes to the governments that willingly sit across the table from the Islamic regime and engage with it, legitimating its torturing, murdering ways.
Our lives are not pawns for the bloody games of governments that pay nothing more than lip service to ideals of human rights, to the international laws they have committed themselves to. If these governments of Japan, of England – if they cannot manage the simple act of holding themselves accountable for the commitments they have made, then we must remind them of their place, their commitments, and to whom they are responsible: to the people. To us. To you, to me, to Bita and Jamal.
Shame on the UK.
Shame on Japan.
Shame on the human rights organizations that stay silent in the face of an onslaught of undeniable violations.
Bravo to the beautiful sisters and brothers who stand up to fight for the lives of all of the Bitas and Jamals of this world.
I close with the words of Bishop Niemoeller, from the time of the Holocaust. We know them nearly by heart, yet forget them every day:
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
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