A letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Dr. Navanethem Pillay

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

InfoDesk@ohchr.org

 

 

Dear Dr. Pillay,

We, the undersigned, hereby are making a plea for your assistance in saving the life of one of an innocent, Mr. Saeed Malekpour, whose life is in imminent danger in Iran. 

As you are probably aware, Mr. Malekpour (a Canadian resident) was detained on October 2008, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence service on charges of cybercrime while he was travelling in Iran to visit his family, and was subsequently sentenced to death. These accusations, nevertheless, have been strongly rejected by Mr. Malekpour, and most of the evidence against him used in the court has been based on forced testimony extracted through torture and severe pressure.

Furthermore, the court was held behind closed doors, and the court rejected repeated requests by the accused and his lawyers to call upon a cyber expert to testify. His death sentence has now been upheld, and it can be carried out at any moment now. 

The only request of the accused and his lawyers to the judiciary branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to lift the death sentence and to hold another trial, this time a just and public one, with expert testimony from cyber crime experts. This request has so far remained unanswered by the judiciary officials in Iran.

We therefore respectfully ask you to, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, please follow up on Mr. Malekpour’s case and request that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran lift the death sentence and hold a public and fair trial, one in line with the international obligations of the country and the requirements of the International Declaration of Human Rights.

 

We also would like to express our deepest gratitude for your cooperation on this humanitarian issue.

 

 

Sincerely yours, 

 

1	Abalfazl	Ghasemi
2	Abbas	Shirazi
3	Abbas	Ranjbar
4	Abdolhamid	Masoumi Tehrani
5	Aboozar	Mehrani
6	Abtin	Ghaffari
7	Ahmad	Azad
8	Ahmad	Batebi
9	Ahmad	Pourmandi
10	Ahmad	Rafat
11	Ahmad	Medadi
12	Ahmad	Montazeri
13	Ahmad	Shahrezaei
14	Aida	Ghajar
15	Akbar	Lakestani
16	Akbar	Amini Armaki
17	Akhtar	Gahsemi
18	Ali	Afshari
19	Ali	Porsan
20	Ali	Tarokh
21	Ali	Taghipour
22	Ali	Shakeri
23	Ali	Tayefi
24	Ali	Fotovvati
25	Ali	Kalaei
26	Ali	Mohtadi
27	Ali	Nazari
28	Ali	Nikooee
29	Ali	Behzadian Nejad
30	Ali	Pourvahedi
31	Ali	Tabatabaei
32	Ali	Honari
33	Ali Akbar	Mahdi
34	Ali Asghar	Ramezanpoor
35	Ali Reza	Khademi
36	Ali Reza	Kiani
37	Amin	Riahi
38	Amin	Sorkhabi
39	Amin	Movahedi
40	Amir	Biglari
41	Amir	Rashidi
42	Amir	Sehati
43	Amir Hossein	Tavassoti
44	Amir Hossein	Fotoohi
45	Ammar	Maleki
46	Anvar	Mir Sattari
47	Arache	Janati- Atai
48	Arash	Aalam
49	Arash	Abadpour
50	Arash	Hosseini Pajooh
51	Arash	Saleh
52	Arash	Mohajeri Nejad
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