The Voice of Mirza Xazar

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva,

CC Mrs. Harrison, Amnesty International, London

Dear sir/madam

Re SECOND UPDATE ON OUR COMPLAINT IN SUPPORT OF MR RZA ABBASI

It is now over a month passed since the second trial of the Southern Azerbaijani human right activist, Mr. Rza ABBASI, but the relevant Iranian authorities continue to deprive him of his liberty; disregard his human rights; act indifferently to proper court procedures; and arbitrarily detain him with indecision and an indefinite court outcome. We have already lodged a complaint regarding this case (as per our update letter: Ref: 376/2006 on 5 September 2006) campaigning towards his immediate and unconditional release.

Our complaint stands and we would like to draw your attention to the case of Mr. Abbasi once again. We have compiled a chronology of events in reverse order to highlight the arbitrary manner with which the Iranian authorities behave. The chronology is appended to this update.

We respect your confidential approach in safeguarding human rights and we cannot imagine that you have not yet applied your mandates to the case of Mr Abbasi. However, we are not detecting its outcome yet. We therefore request that you step up your campaign and wonder whether issuing a press release would advance this case.

Yours faithfully,

Boyuk Resuloglu

Chairperson of the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis