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In order to manage the complexity of arbitrary cases pressed by Iranian authorities against Mr. Leysanli, the table below outlines an overview. These court cases are numbered according to their chronologic order and our correspondences have been supporting Court Cases 5 and 6 through Communication 1 (Ref: 378/2006 on 31 August 2006) and its updates. The present Communication is related to Court Case 3.

No: 489/2008
Date: 25 March 2008

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva

Please circulate this letter to (i) The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (also for Fair Trials) and (ii) Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. It is also of interest to:

• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• The Independent Expert on Minority Issues

CC: Mr Dyke and Mrs. Harrison, Amnesty International, London
Also: Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Server

Dear sir/madam,

COMMUNICATION 2: A NEW DIMENSION ON THE VIOLATION OF MR. LEYSANLI’S HUMAN RIGHTS BY IRANIAN AUTHORITIES

Please find enclosed Communication 2 for safeguarding national and human rights of Mr. Abbas Leysanli. This stems from a court case arbitrarily pressed by Iranian authorities against Mr. Leysanli and relates to the exercise of his basic human rights of freedom of expression and association in the summer 2005 during the Annual Babek Assembly.

In order to manage the complexity of arbitrary cases pressed by Iranian authorities against Mr. Leysanli, the table below outlines an overview. These court cases are numbered according to their chronologic order and our correspondences have been supporting Court Cases 5 and 6 through Communication 1 (Ref: 378/2006 on 31 August 2006) and its updates. The present Communication is related to Court Case 3.

Court Cases Pressed by Iranian Authorities against Mr. Abbas Leysanli:

The history of this case is three years old, and now that the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran are still digging into these cases, it is clear that arbitrary treatments of Mr. Leysanli are escalated to new heights. , as a result of which we submit this Communication 2 with updates to follow in a due course.

In order to manage the complexity of the information, they are tabulated as follows:
Table 1: Your standard form filled to cover Case 3
Table 2: Reclassification of the Cases pressed against Mr. Leysanli by Iranian authorities
Table 3: Supporting evidence for Communication 2 in the form of the sentence issued by the court
Table 4: An introduction to the Annual Babek Assembly

Table 5: Presents excerpts of the statement by Mr. Feqihi, Mr. Leysanli’s lawyer, who confirms that there is no legal basis for this deportation and Mr. Leysanli is an exemplary prisoner.

Please note that the recent Urgent Action by Amnesty International (MDE13/05/2008 on 17 March 2008) attributes the current imprisonment to Mr. Leysanli’s attendance to the Annual Babek Assembly in 2003 – in our terms to Court Case 1. We believe this is incorrect, as that Court Case 1 is closed. Our knowledge of the case agrees with the information given by Mr. Feqihi, Mr. Leysanli’s lawyer that this is related to Court Case 3. However, we will investigate this further.

We regard Mr. Leysanli as a symbol of human rights and a national leader who is defending national and human rights of the nation of Southern Azerbaijan even when he is a helpless victim in the dungeons of the Iranian authorities. Naturally, we have been stretching our resources to cover his cases and despite the iron curtain of disinformation imposed by Iranian authorities and Iranian opposition groups, we have maintained the flow of authentic information to you, thanks to the relentless Southern Azerbaijani activists.

We are confident that you do recognise the gravity of the situation; will use your mandates to restore human rights of Mr. Leysanli; and speak up for his national rights. Thank you in advance for your care.

Yours faithfully;
Boyuk Resuloglu
The Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis

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