Iran: Arbitrary Arrest, Fear of Torture or Other Ill-Treatment: Nahid Kalhor
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/077/2008
05 June 2008
UA 157/08 Arbitrary arrest/fear of torture or other ill-treatment
IRAN Nahid Kalhor (f), aged 21, student
Student Nahid Kalhor was arrested on 1 June by officers of the Ministry of Intelligence (Ettela’at). She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Her whereabouts are unknown, and she has had no contact with her family or lawyers.
In the morning of 1 June Nahid Kalhor received a phone call telling her to go to the Ettela’at offices in Qom, the city southwest of Iran where she is studying. The caller did not identify himself and threatened that her family would be arrested if she did not go to the Ettela'at offices. She only told her brother and together they went to the Ettela’at offices where she was arrested, apparently in relation to her alleged contact with opposition parties outside Iran.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in Persian, English, Arabic or your own language:
- calling on the authorities to ensure that Nahid Kalhor is not subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, and to allow her immediate access to a lawyer of her own choosing, and any medical treatment she may require;
- asking why exactly she was arrested; what charges, if any, have been brought against her; and when any trial will begin;
- calling on the authorities to release her unless she is to be charged with a recognizably criminal offence and given a prompt and fair trial.
APPEALS TO:
Head of the Judiciary
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri, Tehran 1316814737
Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: [email protected] (In the subject line write: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi)
Salutation: Your Excellency
Minister of Intelligence
Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie
Ministry of Intelligence, Second Negarestan Street
Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran
Islamic Republic of Iran
Salutation: Your Excellency
COPIES TO:
Leader of the
Islamic Republic
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
The Office of the
Supreme Leader
Islamic Republic Street - Shahid Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: [email protected]
Salutation: Your Excellency
and to diplomatic representatives of Iran accredited to your country.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretariat, or your section office, if sending appeals after 16 July 2008.