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SUBECT: Stop the Illegal Refoulement of Jasbi, Balsi & Esfahani to Iran!
To Tobias Billström, Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy, Sweden:
I am writing to you to demand an immediate halt to the deportation of the following 3 Iranian asylum-seekers who have sought refuge in Sweden from persecution by the Islamic Republic of Iran:
1) Hossein Jasbi (case no. 11.421.539) – a Marxist anti-regime activist and member of a banned political organization in Iran (Fedaeyin Minority); an outspoken activist against the Islamic Republic regime while in Sweden, with numerous broadcast interviews; and a member of a family that is targeted for state-sponsored violence: his brother and sister were executed by the regime and his father imprisoned.
2) Ali Azari Balsi (case no. 11.420.529) – a political activist who has participated in and organized numerous anti-regime protest actions in Sweden and has a right to asylum based on sur place;
3) Mohammadreza Hamedian Esfahani (case no. 11-084450/11) – a Christian convert with documentation on Islamic Republic letterhead that he has been convicted of apostasy and sentenced to 10 years in prison and 75 lashed; this sentence will be implemented if Esfahani is returned to Iran.
Each of the three should be immediately released from detention and granted political asylum as is their right under international law. It is illegal under international law for any country including Sweden to deport a person who has a legitimate fear of persecution in their home country.
On September 3, 2010, in the case of R. c. v. Sweden (application no. 41827/07), the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found that deporting an Iranian dissident to Iran would be a violation by the Swedish authorities of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Despite this finding, the Swedish government continues to illegally attempt to deport Iranian activists like Jasbi, Balsi, Esfahani, and others, all of whom are clearly and undeniably at risk of arbitrary detention and torture by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Given the the Migration Office’s blatant, repeated violations of international law regarding refugee rights, risking the lives of Iranian and other asylum-seekers, we demand that Sweden must not only immediately halt the illegal deportation of Jasbi, Balsi and Esfahani, but must immediately cease all deportations to Iran.
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