APPEAL TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION On behalf of Mr Hossein Jasbi #iranelection

 

APPEAL TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

 

Commissioner Cecilia Malmström
DG Home Affairs
B-1049 BRUSSELS

 

URGENT

 

Göttingen, 29.3.2012

 

Dear Madam Commissioner,

 

We are appalled to learn that the Swedish authorities are planning to

deport three political refugees from Sweden to Iran. The three include

Mr Hossein Jasbi (born 22 September 1972) who is currently being held

in detention in Stockholm prior to deportation. Jasbi is due to be sent back

to Iran this Saturday 31 March 2012, via Frankfurt.

 

Mr Jasbi is a critic of the Iranian regime. If he is deported, his previous

activities and his ongoing support for victims of human rights abuse in Iran

will put his life in serious danger. Jasbi faces the prospect of sharing the

fate suffered by other family members and deportation is likely to be

followed by his immediate arrest, mistreatment and in the worst case

execution.

 

Jasbi's father and two brothers are serving lengthy prison terms. In

1981 one of Jasbi's brothers was executed in prison for political activities

and a sister was executed at the start of the 1980s. Before he fled to

Sweden Jasbi had for years acted as a go-between for political prisoners

in Iranian gaols and their families and publicised human rights abuses.

He was forced to leave Iran for his own safety in the immediate aftermath

of the protests that followed the 2009 elections when he was threatened

with arrest because of his political activities.

 

Jasbi has been a supporter of the Iranian opposition with his criticisms

of the Iranian regime in the Swedish media.

 

In view of the imminent threat to his life and well-being that Mr Jasbi faces

if he is deported, we urge you to intervene immediately with a view to

having his deportation deferred and his asylum status urgently reassessed.

 

Our human rights organisation is asking for Mr Jasbi to be granted asylum immediately.

 

We appeal to you to prevent Mr Jasabi's deportation and to seek a commitment that persecuted regime critics and human rights activists will not be delivered into the hands of their persecutors.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Tilman Zülch

General Secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany

 

 

Copies:

 

José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission;

Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship;

Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg;

Members of the European Parliament;

The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden; Churches, Trade Unions, NGOs and Media

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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