Appeal

[echap at eng.gla.ac.uk]

 URGENT APPEAL 

In less than three weeks , five opponents of the regime have been brutally 
assassinated. Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar , leaders of the People's 
party were stabbed to death in their home in Tehran, "Majid Sharif" , 
writer and translator and "Mohamad Mokhtari" writer and translator have 
been killed, publisher Pirouz Davani has disappeared , writer Mohamad Pouyandeh 
is missing , it is assumed that he has been abducted by one of the regimes' 
death squads and Hezbollahi groups in Iran are warning the regime's 
opponents that dissent will not be tolerate. 
The body of Iran's dissident poet Mohamad Mokhtari, who was missing since last 
thursday, was identified on Wed 9th Dec by his son in a Tehran morgue.  Mokhtari
left his house on thursday afternoon and disappeared amongst rumours that he had
 been arrested .
Mokhtari , Pouyandeh and a number of other writers were recently involved in 
attempts to set up Iran's writers Association.
Mokhtari was arrested and questioned in October and warned to give up 
attempts of relaunching the writers' association. He was also amongst the 134 
writers, poets who signed a letter calling for an end to censorship in 1994.
He was an expert on Ferdowsi and a relentless campaigner for an end to censorship. 
According to his son, Siavosh, Mr Mokhtaris' body had a number of bruises
and recent burns, cable marks were seen around his neck, and the cause of death
could have been strangulation.   
Workers Left Unity has also learnt of the death of another writer and human 
rights activist Mohamad Pouyandeh, who was reported missing on wed 9th Dec. 
According to Mr Pouyandeh's wife her husband was on his way home
 , when he disappeared. His body was found in a Tehran suburb on friday. 
Pouyandeh had translated a number of books from French including , Sociology 
of Litterature by Lucien Goldman, books from Lucas and recently a book on 
Human Rights . Most secular writers , poets in Iran have gone into hinding, 
fearing for their lives. 
The Coordinating Committee of Workers Left Unity blames the Iranian regime 
for this fifth murder in less than two weeks.

Every dissident life is in danger in Iran, every member of the opposition 
is in danger as the Islamic regime is adamant  to silence all opposition.

Iran's Writers Association in Exile , Pen International , the Committee to 
prepare an International tribunal of the Iranian regime have all called for
 an independent International commission to be sent to Iran to investigate 
all "suspicious recent murders". 


Please support their call and send messages of support to the Coordinating 
Committee  of Workers Left Unity 


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