Samstag, 31. März 2012
Freitag, 30. März 2012
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
Donnerstag, 29. März 2012
Uncovering the anti-asylum policies of Swedish right-wing government
Uncovering the anti-asylum policies of Swedish right-wing government
Anti-asylum and paradoxical policies of the right wing Swedish government in restricting the rights of Iranian asylum seekers as well as their conservative attitude toward the realities of the current situation in Iran, has entered a new phase. Everyday more and more restrictions and new tricks are used to put a bigger social pressure on the refugee community here in Sweden.
Ignoring the rights of Iranian refugees in Sweden has gone so far that despite the government and immigrations office’s knowledge of the current situation in Iran, many asylum seekers are deported to Iran regardless of the content of their political documents, backgrounds, activities, their membership in political opposition partiesand even regardless of the inevitable destiny awaiting them in Iran.
Such policies are to the extent that the cost of deportation of an asylum seeker is ten times higher than the cost of his/her accommodation. Thus Sweden intends to close its borders to asylum seekers and take unjust measures against the refugee community living in Sweden.
Hossein Jasbi is one of the political asylum seekers with an undeniable political background who has lost some of his family members in the unjust Islamic regime of Iran. Now he is a victim of business cooperation and political considerations and collaborations of Sweden with Islamic republic of Iran.
Once again, to prove the power of its anti-asylum policies and its commitments to the secret agreements with Islamic regime of Iran to suppress the opposition voices here inSweden, the Swedish government has planned to charter an airplane on 31th of March 2012 to transfer HosseinJasbi to Amsterdam and from there to deport him to Iran.(Arlanda, Amsterdam Tehran)
Therefore, we invite all asylum/human rights activists and freedom-loving individuals especially the Iranian diasporacommunity, parties, individuals, groups and organization to declare their objection by sending this short text to the immigration office and let the world and the public opinion know about the unequal battle of Swedish government with innocent people.
To save Hossein Jasbi,s life copy DO NOT DEPORT HOSSEIN JASBI TO IRAN (CASE # 11-421539) and send it to: migrationsverket@migrationsverket.se
29 March 2012
Donnerstag, 22. März 2012
Heute: Demo vor dem schwedischen Generalkonsulat in Frankfurt / Main
Wir fordern Schwedens Migrationsminister T. Billström auf :
Keine Abschiebung nach Iran
Keine Abschiebung in Folter und Todesstrafe!
Abschiebung der Familie Esfahani in den Iran stoppen!
Die junge Familie Mohammadreza Hamedian Esfahani (35), Bahareh Pourfard (34) und ihre Kinder Asal (7) und Daniel (2) sind akut von Abschiebung über Frankfurt in den Iran bedroht; der Vater sitzt z.Z. in Abschiebehaft. Sie suchten 2008 in Schweden Asyl, nachdem sie wegen ihrer Konvertierung vom Islam zum Christentum verfolgt wurde. Inzwischen ist der Vater Mohammadreza im Iran in Abwesenheit zu 10 Jahren Haft und 75 Peitschenhieben verurteilt worden, wegen „Abfall vom rechten Glauben“ und „Verächtlichmachung des Islam“. Nun erhielten sie von schwedischen Behörden den finalen Ablehnungsbescheid. Auch scheiterte der Versuch für einstweiligen Rechtschutz vorm Europäischen Menschengerichtshof. Es wurde bereits ein offener Brief an Tobias Billström adressiert, schwedischer Migrationsminister (case #11-084450/11), auf der Homepage kontaktierbar unter „contact informations“ auf http://www.sweden.gov.se; Informationen zu der Familie finden sich auf http://asyl-today.blogspot.de. Bitte kontaktieren auch Sie die schwedischen Behörden!
Herr Esfahani war auch in Schweden als iranischer Regimegegner aktiv und in vorderer Front bei Demonstrationen zu sehen: Internationale Behörden haben festgestellt, dass die Islamische Republik Iran die Aktivitäten geflohener BürgerInnen sorgfältig verfolgt. Herr Esfahani muss deshalb im Iran mit weiterer Verfolgung, Folter und Todesstrafe rechnen. Laut Asylum Today ist es nicht der erste Fall illegaler Abschiebung in den Iran aus Schweden und Norwegen nach den UN-Flüchtlingskonventionen; in einem Fall war der europäische Menschengerichtshof bereits eingeschritten. Dennoch wird diese traurige Praxis fortgesetzt. Sie erinnert uns auch in Deutschland an Verletzungen der Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit von IranerInnen, wie sie am 20. Februar 2011 vor dem iranischen Konsulat stattfand. Dort wurde eine versammelte Menge inklusive Frauen und Kinder stundenlang festgehalten und schließlich brutal angegriffen, um die Personalien zu erhalten – wegen Sachbeschädigung an der Botschaft, die bereits vor Ankunft der Leute abgeschlossen war. Die AktivistInnen unterstellten dann, dass deutsche Behörden mit dem diktatorischen Regime in Iran kooperieren. Die Kooperationen mit Ländern wie Nigeria, Lybien und Syrien in Bezug auf europäische Flüchtlingsabwehr zeigt, das solche Unterstellungen nicht aus der Luft gegriffen sind.
Stoppt die neokoloniale Ungerechtigkeit, Stoppt die Abschiebungen! Stoppt die Abschiebungen in den Iran jetzt!
V.i.S.d.P. Renate Windelband , Frankfurt 069-71035735
Demo in Frankfurt / Main: THIS FATHER OF AN IRANIAN FAMILY IS AGAIN IN RISK OF BEING HANGED
THIS FATHER OF AN IRANIAN FAMILY IS AGAIN IN RISK OF BEING HANGED.
So some (few) people decided to demonstrate in front of the swedish Consulate in Frankfurt ...
It will take place today at 3pm german time (that is 15:00 h).
- Migrationsverket rejects all requests and documents.filed. . The Swedish government wants to send an Iranian family back to Iran although they run the risk of receiving the death penalty. On Friday they received the final rejection on their asylum application. – The Swedish Migrationsverket rejected all requests of their asylum documents. This is happening often in asylum applications both in Sweden and Norway, says Bjørg Irene Karlsen from Asylum-Today.
Pressemitteilung seitens iranischer Asylbewerber der Stadt Würzburg (Bayern, Deutschland) #iranelection #refugees
Migration Board - Asylum department in Sweden: Stop deportation of Iranian asylum seekers to Iran!
1) Mr. Hossein Jasbi (case # 11- 421539) a Marxist anti-regime activist and member of a banned political organization in Iran (Fedaeyin Minority); an outspoken activist against the Islamic Republic regime in Sweden, with numerous broadcast interviews; 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) Mr. Ali Azari Balsi (case # 11-420529) Islamic regime executed his father, Shokhrollah Azari a worker activist. A political activist who has participated in and organized numerous anti-regime protest actions in Sweden, an active bloger (http://aliazaribalsi.wordpress.com/).
3) Mr. Mohammadreza Hamedian Esfahani (Maxim) (case # 11- 084450) – a Christian convert family (wife and two children) with political activities in last two years.
Each of the three should be immediately released from detention and recognize as refugee and benefiters from international or subsidiary protection. It is violation of asylum rights for any country including Sweden to deport a person who has a legitimate fear of persecution in home country. On 3/09/2010, in the case of R. c. v. Sweden (application no. 41827/07), the European Court of Human Rights found that deporting an Iranian dissident to Iran would be a violation 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, migration board continues to 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. Unfortunately Mr. M.S.N Case # 11-365557 has been deported by migration board to Iran on 10 March 2012 and he was arrested by Iranian government upon his arrive and until now his family couldn’t able to meet him. Migration board trying deporting political asylum seekers to Iran at a time when executions are happening on a near-daily basis, sometimes several a day. Among those to be deported includes a convert to Christianity to a country that intends to execute Christian convert Mr. Yousef Nadarkhani solely due to his religious conversion! [Your name]" Thanks!
Ulrike
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