In Iran, a trial of power between the Ayatollah Khamenei is currently under the authority of justice and two activists against the forced veiling. The latter received support from the Parliament.
Already a day after his arrest on December 31. June Farhad Meysami (article image) in the hunger had come to strike. Known to be the only mid-August, after his solitary confinement has ended. He represents a “threat to national security” – the usual allegation in the arrest of dissidents in Iran. As alleged proof, the security authorities provided to the search of his apartment, a few badges, printed with the slogan “I am against the forced veiling.” Therefore, Farhad Meysami had come to the attention of the security authorities: He supported the peaceful Raised by the women against the forced veiling.
A week after his arrest, the security guards called his mother. “Once eleven o’clock in the evening, and once, about four o’clock in the morning, the old mother of Farhad, was called. You should listen to her son under torture is questioned. Where the violence of the security authorities?” tweeted the Journalist Morteza Kazemian.
Farhad Meysami, a role model for many young people in Iran
Protest against the erosion of the Right
Farhad Meysami had studied medicine and for years has been writing textbooks for high school graduates preparing to take the entrance exam to the University. He is a in this group of well-known and popular Person. Meysami is also a faithful companion to the Iranian Sakharov prize winner and human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. Like you, he believes in change through peaceful resistance. They are now both sitting in jail. Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on 13. June arrested. Both of them are in hunger strike.
They are protesting against their detention and that they have no free access to lawyers. They are political prisoners. According to a decision of justice you may appreciate your defender from a list of 20 “trust” lawyers pick and choose.
“I’m not going to do,” writes Farhad Meysami in an open letter from prison. Since the 8.In September, he has intensified his hunger strike and takes no more water. He is examined every day by doctors care and receives intravenous injections.
Meanwhile, 600 human rights activists, journalists and students have prompted him to end his hunger strike. Directed he writes: “more Important than the hunger strike, a Person has the right to a fair trial”. He is turning against a “illegal action” against the list of hand-picked lawyers, against the policy-driven process. This must change. “Changes are not possible except by our determination and solidarity, to a stable, peaceful, and sometimes expensive way.”
The Opponent: Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani
Support from the Parliament
Meysamis claims have been achieved through a Twitter campaign for his release to a wide Public. The Deputy, Mahmoud Sadeghi tweeted on may 10. September: “Today I had an appointment with the mother of Farhad Maysami in my office. Because she was sick, came out a friend of his, informed me about his case. As far as I can, I will use me for his rights.”
Many members want to take action against the decision of the judiciary, says the lawyer Neamt Ahmadi from Tehran in an interview with Deutsche Welle. “With a list of hand-picked lawyers is undermining the justice of the law. The defense has no meaning, if the lawyer and the judge are on one side and the same opinion is represented.”
Whether members can change the decision of the judiciary is questionable. The judiciary in Iran acts independently from the Parliament and the government, but the judiciary chief, currently the conservative hardliners Sadegh Larijani, is alone the religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The is convinced that the Raised the women are controlled against the forced veiling – as with almost all other peaceful protests in Iran – from enemies abroad.