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PJAK: Freedom for the Kurdish women
activists Runak Safazadeh and Haba Abdi
22.1.2008
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January 22, 2008
We condemn and protest the Iranian Islamic
authorities arbitrary detention and torture of two
young Kurdish women rights activists in the prison
of Sanandaj city. Both are members of the Women
Rights Organization (Azarmehr), organizers and
active in the campaign for one million signatures
for woman rights in Iran. The campaign emphasizes
that women in the Iranian Islamic constitution and
Sharia laws are discriminated against and treated as
"second-class citizens", they are asking for their
rights to divorce, inheritance, child custody,
freedom of speech and other rights.
Ms. Runak Safazadeh, 21 years old was arrested by
the Iranian security forces on 9 October 2007, while
Ms. Haba Abdi, 21 years old and student of
psychology was arrested on 4 November 2007. They
have been interrogated and tortured in Sanandaj
prison without due process and the presence of their
lawyers. They have been accused of working against
the revolutions values and national security.
Hana and Runak were actively supporting and
organizing Kurdish women to be aware off and ask for
their rights, participate in the campaign for one
million signatures and teaching children the Kurdish
language.
Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran are generally
deprived of their economic, political and civil
rights and treated as second class citizens. Woman
who try to ask for their rights would be arrested,www.ekurd.net
tortured and accused of
being against the revolutions values and national
security.
The situation for the Kurdish women in Iran is
worse, they suffer from the bad economy in
Kurdistan, the government oppressive policies
against ethnic minorities and the militarization of
the Kurdistan region.
We urgently demand an immediate release of Hana and
Runak from Iranian prison.
We condemn and protest the Iranian regime deliberate
murder under torture of the Kurdish student activist
Ebrahim Lotfollahi on January 15. He was detained in
the capital of Iran's Kurdistan Province Sanandaj.
Nine days after his arrests officials told his
family that he had committed suicide while in prison
and died of "suffocation." He has been buried at the
city's cemetery, while his family members were not
allowed to see the body.
We call upon the international human rights
organizations, UN, the European Parliament, USA and
the international community to interfere on behalf
of Hana and Runak,www.ekurd.net
civil rights and women
activists suffering in the prisons of the Islamic
Republic of Iran and to stop torture to death policy
in the Iranian prisons.
It is time for the international democratic
community to take action and stop the Iranian
regimes atrocities and oppression of the Kurdish
and Iranian people.
PJAK-Information Center
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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KDPI
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
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The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
Since 2004
The Iranian Kurdish rebel group PJAK (PEJAK) (Party
of Free Life of Kurdistan) took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdistan
province northwestern of Iran. Half the members of
PEJAK are women.
More about PEJAK- Party for a
Free Life in Kurdistan
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