“Life without Fear” Campaign in UK
International Federation of Iranian Refugees(IFIR)-UK | 22.02.2006 01:06
همبستگى - فدراسيون سراسرى پناهندگان ايرانى- انگليس
International Federation of Iranian Refugees, UK Branch
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24 January 2006
“Life without Fear”
Campaign for the rights of Iranian asylum seekers in the UK
We have fled the barbaric regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Under this regime, laughter, happiness and love are a crime and sexual discrimination, flogging and executions are the norm. The regime imprisons, tortures and executes people for their beliefs. It executes children and teenagers. It stones women and men to death and hangs gays for consensual sex. Under this regime, workers are denied the right to organise and strike; labour activists are routinely beaten up and imprisoned. There is no freedom of expression and opposition political activity is banned. Women are treated as second-class citizens and sexual apartheid rules. Young people are denied the prospect of any meaningful life; their protests for rights and freedoms are violently suppressed. The list is endless.
To flee such conditions is the basic right of people, and many have already done so and continue to do so – often at the cost of endangering their lives and that of their families. They take such risks to find shelter in other countries in order to escape from the nightmare of prison, torture and persecution. They risk starvation and death at sea or in freezing mountains to get themselves to a safe place. Hundreds and thousands have had their dreams buried on the way to safe zones.
Arriving at a safe shore, such as the UK, is not the end of the agonies of asylum seekers. For many, another nightmare is just beginning! In clear breach of its obligations under international conventions on the rights of persons fleeing persecution, the British government has arbitrarily refused the applications of thousands of refugees who have fled the Islamic dictatorship in Iran. The reasons for these refusals do not correlate with the truth. When a refugee says she is a woman who escaped the Islamic reaction, they do not accept her application. If a worker says that they had not been paid any salary for months, and the response to their protest had been arrest and torture, they are told that those are not reasonable grounds for refugee status. If a student says they were persecuted for their activities against the regime, they are not believed. If someone says that as a youth they did not have any political, social or cultural freedoms, their applications are denied any consideration.
The current policy of the British government towards asylum seekers is totally arbitrary, irresponsible and inhumane. Refusing their applications and deporting them back to Iran is tantamount to denying the crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and returning victims back to their persecuters.
The International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) in the UK protests against this policy of the British government. Since 16 January 2006 we have started a campaign for a period of two months with the following aims:
1- Iran under the Islamic Republic is not a safe country. No Iranian asylum seeker should be deported to Iran;
2- There should be an immediate stop to all detentions of Iranian asylum seekers. All those currently in detention in British prisons for the ‘crime’ of seeking asylum should be freed;
3- Given the present suppressive nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the British government must change its policy towards the asylum seekers and grant them refuge.
We urge all humanitarian organisations and individuals to support our campaign.
For more information, please contact Siamak Amjadi, the Secretary of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees, UK Branch.
Tel: 079 4675 2534 or 079 3186 6985
ifiruk@yahoo.com
BM Box 1919
London WC1N 3XX
International Federation of Iranian Refugees(IFIR)-UK
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Another crude call to back the GENOCIDE of Iran
22.02.2006 14:10
The MI5/MI6 run Iraqi groups, of course, were used as the 'source' for almost every PROVEN lie against Iraq (especially over so-called WMD), although in reality, the Bristish/Israeli governments produced the phoney documentation, and had members of the Iraqi group pretend to be the author to give it believability.
It is notable to remember that Hitler (and Stalin) had the assistance of 'citizens' of every nation they invaded. It is in the nature of humanity that no matter how horrific the proposed crime (and, of course, IFIR is calling for the nuclear destruction of Iran), there is always some people prepared to be traitor for a large enough some of money.
The BBC/ITN will include increasing numbers of interviews with IFIR/Peter Tatchell as the nuclear strike draws closer. Today, we have seen Blair demolish one of the most holy sites in Iraq in readiness for the aftermath of the first stikes. Iran currently controls enough of Iraq to attempt to fight back in that nation as well, but Blair intends to use the Sunni/Shia division (which doesn't exist yet in any useful form) to supress as many Iranian options as possible.
Blair knows that the Western controlled leaders of the Middle East nations will attempt to obey his orders to cast the genocide of Iran as a Sunni vs Shia conflict. He also knows that those leaders will fall in pretty short order, as their people finally rise up against them. However, Blair fully intends to us the demise of the Western stooge leadership of the Middle East as further proof that the muslim people of the WHOLE region need genociding.
What kind of people work towards the genocide of their birth nation? It is a foolish question, for history proves that such EVIL REPUGNANT creatures can always be found. It is worth noting that the British Media has been carefully seeded with the story of the 'official' (as in stooge) government of Iraq ordering the IMMEDIATE arrest of those Iraqi kids seen being tortured by British troops (with gleeful reference to the promised 'mistreatment' of the kids that will follow). The local regions in which the British troops (or more accurately, terrorists) operate, have fully withdrawn co-operation after been sickened by the endless atrocities of the British, and certanly won't be detaining their own on Blair's orders.
Perhaps you might care to recall little piece of past history at this moment. When Cuba expelled the criminal scum that had made that island the playground of the mafia, the good criminal cuban folk of Miami were used as pawns in an American attempt to take back Cuba. Various events occured, most notably the stand off between the US and the USSR, over intended nuclear missile bases in Cuba. However, it turns out that Cuba already had (at the time) significant stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and had the cuban traitors of Miami suceeded in persuading the US to attack their own people, the whole region would have disappeared under nuclear clouds.
We have 'enjoyed' many near misses since WW2, but a thing that never happened never seems that significant. Of course, in the past there were at least two opposing opinions in the politics of all powerful nations. Today, this plurality has almost disappeared. Britain, and the US, have but a single political position, and Europe is rapidly being conditioned into this state too. Blair intends NOT to be another evil psychopath that misses his dream through lack of authority.
Today, everyone is fully aware of Blair's massive program to demonise muslims. The vile arrest of the dark skinned cast from the "Road to Guantanamo" at Luton Airport sings loud "Here comes Blair's GENOCIDE". The imprisonment of Irving is designed to remind EVERY muslim (just like the arrests of those that dared to criticise the nazis in Germany) that justice is ENTIRELY one sided, with the muslims designated as sub-human, and thus unworthy of ANY consideration.
I was listening (not on purpose) to that dreadful Radio4 kids show (aimed at the under 12's I guess), and when some person was introduced as visiting schools to talk about the WW2 enigma machine, I ***knew*** that Blair's propaganda was about to hit. On cue, the program hit the kiddies with "terrorist this" and "terrorist that" and "GCHQ is your best friend". I would suggest that you pay careful attention to the next non-political program you see or hear, and count how many times the word 'terrorist' or similar is worked in under some pretext.
ANYWAY, International Federation of Iranian Refugees(IFIR)-UK wants you to back Blair's plan to GENOCIDE Iran. They make a simple request, namely to exterminate millions or Iranians, and to make THEIR leaders and THEIR families massively rich at the same time (see the financial state of the current stooge 'leadership' of Iraq). I think this may just be an offer that we can all refuse.
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