5/27/2011 Article - Untitled Article
Publication: Guardian 1821-2000; Date: Jul 5, 1979; Section: None; Page: 7
Lawyers
protest
at Iran
arrests
Front Lie Tisurgood
in Tehean
A gooey at prasateent
Iranian ' lawyern han aerated
rernment c i grove legal
lmpreprietirs and warned that
they will neck help at art inter-
national level if the roses nf 20
young tees bel a for pnliticul
etrenees are eat lent to court
soon.
‘the letter, which appeared
In the local prone yesterday,
follows a series of ceottieting
reports en Iranian priensn and
the erealme!l rtn lnerv.
The teller fslloined an at loek
1 ay militant Montems as tannest
hundred demonetralsn srhu
staged a cit-In oeinitte the ItEm-
tairy of ,lerriee far hr past
week Ia protest agalont the
urreat of a yoaog Moslem guer-
rilla, Mahaotnoatl Reea Sa'adati.
Two deassnslrators scare
sosuedfd by airar bullete and
ixuther Iwa utahbed before
Islamic mililiamen fred shalt
nit ‘he air Cu diaperse Ihe
rooted.. None of the worandeot
required hoopilal treatment,
Aeosrdle to Olin letter from
the Iranian Anoooialiust af Jsr-
:i le, e raoha included
aeme of the bravest appflnoat,s
of the Shah's regime. Mr sg'a-
da li ms one of l b ps ltloal pri-
soners who have n il been
formally charged, given the
right of defence, or Woo
stltwcd vieits by lawyeru and
retativeu. O le Sa'sdah', a meat-
her of the ll lujohsddeert-e-h(halq
guerrillas, was areesled on
April 20 Os suspicion of apyiatg
for Ihe Soviet tistnn.
Reminding Iran's new lime'
i cIer of Jsol Dr Antnsad
Safe Naj Sayyed Juvardi, of
his own nlragfle against She
Shuts, the tM arneeed ma t tst-
ernetfst tO repeating “bitter
experiences” and - vtolatiuos”
of the pant. “The voices of
theta men will reach the seorld
and those eeoporsttale toe Ihe
defeute of hamon eights will
take up thnir canes,” canftssdea
?fnt nely is the Seller jmleo-
tinily embarrassing to a ga-c-
eeanaoaat that claims to be
rcealutiooarj- aad han pm-
nelerd to aafegoaard human
riohlu, bat at esincifes vrith
allegations thai She regime is
aetrtg lerturc to extract inform-
attan team Ii : gristners.
Twa Rurds etriier thtt week
culled res conference to
allege being “threatened with
ctnalh. bliedfntoied, whIpped.
kicked, and fasireed with chalos
Cs a railiatar” inside Pane.
Oman's lorgesl pritan. Ahdngah
.Wn and Atahasio Roohallah
said they were arrested afler
heseg found in pswessisa of
ifardish literature.
letter members of the
hltsiahaddote gtterrillao rein
elaleed to trans tlonmao Slights
Cumnisotoiieh hetore Ihe
ahoh's rrmsrat iv January wa n
made up of ulaanst every
Cahanet member—that their
cotletgoc, Mr Sa'adati, hod
beeo tat-bared ,bvatellah Ifuol.
Itead of Tebrano central tenant
ctenmiltep denied ouch an
The Ru udati atroir, as it now
hoown has beec complicated
hy a recent Stnjahaddeeg state-
ment alleging chat a ?iarlh
Americas was steals -ed in the
oacrrtlla'o arrest. The Ofajahati.
deco hove ovid Ihat Mr Sa'u-
dolt was tryteg In gather
tofaretatien fruits tOte Rgssiars
art COA activities In gran when
he stun orreeted inW cons-
paoy of Mr Vtadisoir Fenolniso,
first secretory at the Soviet
Einhaosy. The US omhatny hut
strongly denied say cole in the
witote houtness.
During cite past week, 20
lawyers have outanleerea to
defend h tr Sa'adali ohoold Otto
rose erer rome In cnttrt, and
Arota liah Tatag sasi, who
created an uproar in April hy
dropping a lto of sight as a p ro-
lest against t lte leadereltip lit
Qam. has eetergcd from
atutattto ot uiteneu Oa cheese his
eattlieal weigltt behind the
S lOt jahaddeen cause.
In a atalement, lhe Ayatol lah
veuenrtl tlte young guerrillon
that,” the enemy is hoet an des-
trnytng you.
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