DISSIDENTS ACCUSES THE JUDICIARY FOR VIOLATING LAWS
PARIS 10 Apr. (IPS) Two leading Iranian political dissidents accused the Iranian Islamic judiciary of violating the Constitution by placing political prisoners in illegal, dreadful prisons that lack all sanitary, health and medical facilities and services.
"Contrary to all laws, the baseless, unfounded and fabricated charges we have been accused, were made public by the Judiciary before we had been arrested and tried", said Dr Habibollah Peyman, the leader of the Iranian Muslims People’s Party, released last night on a one billion Iranian Rials (125.000 USD) bail after 13 months of jail.
Speaking Tuesday to the Persian service of the Radio France Internationale, Dr. Peyman said that out of the 13 months he was in jail, he spent eight in solitary confinement, creating him great psychological and physical health problems.
He said though detaining political prisoners in solitary confinement for long periods in unknown centres are illegal, but the authorities continues to ignore the laws.
Dr Peyman was arrested along 60 other nationalists-religious activists one the eve of last Iranian year of 1380, accused by the Judiciary of fomenting plots against the Islamic Republic and its leaders.
Like all other key institutions, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i, the leader of the Islamic Republic, also directly controls the Judiciary.
Most of the religious-nationalist activists and the outlawed Iran Freedom Movement members who had been imprisoned were released on heavy bails, pending their trials.
For his part, Mr. Heshmatollah Tabarzadi said he was preparing documents against the Iranian Judiciary to be presented to international human rights organisations for systematic violation of the rights of the Iranian people.
Mr. Tabarzadi, who is the leader of the secular Iranian Democratic Front (IDF) refused, with six other comrades, to answer an Islamic revolution’s court summon, explaining that he does not intend to participate in the Iranian authorities illegal actions.
He said the summons and pressures from the Judiciary and the Islamic revolution guards, both controlled by the leader, are part of the "forces of oppression and repression" against "struggling and freedom" fighters.
"I have to explain that what the forces of oppression do against the freedom seeking people through the Judiciary and the Revolutionary guards are parts of a policy aimed at cracking the dissidents, at stopping the journalist to write, silencing the politician and the political activist to suspend his legal activities", Mr. Tabarzadi added, also talking from Tehran with the Persian service of RFI.
He said that last Iranian year, he spent 9 months in solitary confinement in a windowless cell of the notorious prison number 59 that belongs to the Revolutionary guards and where are held political prisoners in order to get from them forced confessions.
"This prison is lacking all facilities of an ordinary penitence centre, it is filthy, has no running water and no sanitary facilities", he said, adding that as a result of such a long period of solitary imprisonment, he lost his eyesight to a great deal and suffered from other heart bones and back pain disease.
"While the authorities openly violate the laws and constitution of the regime, why should we facilitate their work? Let them come and take us prisoner, but they should know that they cannot crush the struggle and resistance they face today from the young and the students", he assured.
Mr. Tabarzadi and five other student activists refused to appear before the Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court.
He was jailed for the first time three years ago after he openly called for a national referendum to define the exact role, mandate and powers of the leader. ENDS DISSIDENTS RELEASED 19402