URGENT APPEAL
In less than three weeks , five opponents of the regime have been
brutally assassinated.
Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar , leaders of the People's party were
stabbed to death in their home in Tehran, "Majid Sharif" , writer
and translator and "Mohamad Mokhtari" writer and translator have
been killed, publisher Pirouz Davani has disappeared , writer
Mohamad Pouyandeh is missing , it is assumed that he has been
abducted by one of the regimes' death squads and Hezbollahi groups
in Iran are warning the regime's opponents that dissent will not
be tolerate.
The body of Iran's dissident poet Mohamad Mokhtari, who was
missing since last thursday, was identified on Wed 9th Dec by his
son in a Tehran morgue.
Mokhtari left his house on thursday afternoon and disappeared
amongst rumours that he had been arrested .
Mokhtari , Pouyandeh and a number of other writers were recently
involved in attempts to set up Iran's writers Association.
Mokhtari was arrested and questioned in October and warned to give
up attempts of relaunching the writers' association.
He was also amongst the 134 writers, poets who signed a letter
calling for an end to censorship in 1994.
He was an expert on Ferdowsi and a relentless campaigner for an
end to censorship.
According to his son, Siavosh, Mr Mokhtaris' body had a number of
bruises and recent burns, cable marks were seen around his neck,
and the cause of death could have been strangulation.
Workers Left Unity has also learnt of the death of another writer
and human rights activist Mohamad Pouyandeh, who was reported
missing on wed 9th Dec.
According to Mr Pouyandeh's wife her husband was on his way home ,
when he disappeared.
His body was found in a Tehran suburb on friday.
Pouyandeh had translated a number of books from French including ,
Sociology of Litterature by Lucien Goldman, books from Lucas and
recently a book on Human Rights .
Most secular writers , poets in Iran have gone into hinding,
fearing for their lives.
The Coordinating Committee of Workers Left Unity blames the
Iranian regime for this fifth murder in less than two weeks.
Every dissident life is in danger in Iran, every member of the
opposition is in danger as the Islamic regime is adamant to
silence all opposition.
Iran's Writers Association in Exile , Pen International , the
Committee to prepare an International tribunal of the Iranian
regime have all called for an independent International commission
to be sent to Iran to investigate all "suspicious recent murders".
Please support their call and send messages of support to the
Coordinating
Committee of Workers Left Unity.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 44 141 330 4316( Britain ,
France)
fax: 46 31 139897 (
Scandinavia)
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