Mothers of uprising victims and detainees rally in Laleh Park and in front of mullahs’ “Revolutionary Court”
NCRI – About 200 mothers of those killed or detained during the nationwide uprising in Iran and families of political prisoners gathered at Abnama Square in Tehran’s Laleh Park on Saturday, December 12, 2009. They continued their rally by marching towards Amirabad Street and later Fatemi intersection.
The mothers’ protest, which has been regularly staged since the start of the nationwide uprising every week on Saturdays, took place despite the fact that the Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) and plainclothes agents issued threats and insults, and violently confronted the protestors to prevent a rally. They blatantly threatened the mothers with death.
More than 200 families of those detained during the December 7 protests also gathered in front of the regime’s Revolutionary Court hoping to receive information about the whereabouts of their children and relatives and to demand their immediate release. The detainees of the December 7 rally are mostly young girls and boys who are kept in solitary confinements at wards 209 and 240 of the notorious Evin prison. A large number of the detainees have also been transferred to safe-houses and other detention centers of the regime, and their fates remain unknown. The regime’s suppressive organs refrain from responding to families worried about the fate of their loved ones. Families traveling from the provinces to Tehran to find out about the status of their relatives are particularly under more pressure.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to condemn such suppressive actions and demand urgent and binding measures for the immediate release of the detainees.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 13, 2009