Iranian political prisoners in several prisons throughout Iran (Evin Prison in Tehran, Rajai-Shahr Prison in Gohardasht, and prisons in Semnan, Bandar Abbas, and Birjand), who are on hunger strike, have issued a declaration calling on human rights organizations and the UN and its Secretary General to form an international fact-finding committee to identify and arrest those responsible and involved in the massacre and suppression of freedom activists in Iran in the last 27 years of theocratic rule in Iran.
Some of these prisoners, who have ties to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and other dissident groups, have been on hunger strike for six weeks and some others have joined the strike in the past two weeks. The prisoners stressed in their declaration they would continue their hunger strike until the formation of a fact-finding committee. The declaration states: “The responsibility for our well-being rests directly with Mr. Kofi Annan and other heads of human rights organizations that are charged with the defense and protection of the rights of peoples throughout the world.”
The clerical regime’s prison guards have transferred the group of political prisoners to a unit where ordinary criminals are held as a way of forcing them into submission. They are also denied medical attention for injuries suffered under torture and for other medical needs.
The Iranian Resistance appeals to all human rights organizations throughout the world to support the Iranian political prisoners on hunger strike in Iran and calls on the Secretary General of the United Nations to urgently respond to their request.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 29, 2005