Mr. Kazemi had already spent nine years in mullahs’ prison in 1980’s for supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). He was sixteen when he was first arrested and subjected to various tortures and mistreatments.
Mr. Kazemi who is married with two children, was employed in a publishing company. His family has no information about him since his arrest.
The Iranian Resistance, while expressing concern against torture and pressures on Mr. Kazemi, calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations working groups on arbitrary detention and torture to take urgent measures regarding the release of political prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 3, 2009