NCRI – More than 100 members of families of those arrested during Friday’s courageous anti-regime rally in Tehran staged a protest on Monday outside the Iranian regime’s judiciary offices in the country’s capital.
The families are deeply worried about the situation of their loved ones in the midst of news about brutal torture and rape taking place inside the regime’s prisons and death camps. They condemned the arbitrary arrest of their family members and regime officials’ refusal to respond to inquires about their whereabouts. They called for unconditional release of all the detainees.
The regime’s officials particularly avoid responding to detainees’ mothers and only accept the fathers’ birth certificates as documentation required for identifying the detainees. In the end, however, the regime does not respond to families’ inquiries and leads them astray which only compounds the families’ worries about their loved ones.
In a separate development, some 60 others staged a protest outside the meeting hall of the notorious Evin prison and demanded determination of the status of their detained family members. Others whose family members had been detained during the Friday protests also joined the gathering. Despite persistent harassments and refusals to respond to inquiries on the part of the regime’s repressive agents, the families continue their daily protests outside the notorious Evin prison to save their loved ones and other political prisoners.
The majority of the detainees are either students or college graduates between 20 to 30 years of age.
The Iranian Resistance warns about the brutal torture of detainees held in the regime’s notorious prisons and safe houses and urges the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and international human rights organizations, particularly the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Rapporteur on Torture, to take urgent and binding measures to release those detained during the uprising in Iran..
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 21, 2009