COMMUNICATION NO 2 ON MR. SEID METINPUR

BayBak, Azerbaijan | Sunday, 22nd July , 2007 , 20:44 [pm] | Azerbaijan

Seid in his wife’s words:
“Here is a modern Prometheus and enchained; enchained for discovering the secret of ‘immortality’; but there will come a time for undoing the chains, after which the wounds shall be healed.”

Dear sir/madam

Please find enclosed

Say (No.): 458/2007
Tarix (Date): 22 July 2007

The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva,

Please circulate this Communication to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders, also this of interest to:

• Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
• The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
• 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
UNESCO and various news media

Seid Metinpur

A Southern Azerbaijani prisoner of conscience

Dear sir/madam

COMMUNICATION NO 2 ON MR. SEID METINPUR

Please find enclosed a new Communication on Mr. Seid Metinpur for safeguarding human rights of this distinguished human rights defender of Southern Azerbaijan, who is being persecuted arbitrarily by Iranian authorities. The documents provided for your attention are:

Table 1*: The translation of a short essay by Mr. Metinpur’s wife to introduce her husband for whom defending human rights is the ‘secret of immortality’ and the engine of the national movement of South Azerbaijan

Table 2*: The Communication form for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders, using published information and those from our own sources

We would like to remind you that this is our second Communication on Mr. Metinpur (the first Communication is: 446/2007 on 4 March 2007). However, he was released on 3 March 2007 after compiling an arbitrary case against him. This second Communication is on a separate account and coincides with the Anniversary of the May 2006 Mass Protests. His name was included in our collective communication (Ref: 457/2007 on 4 July 2007).

We would like to stress once again that in compiling this Communication, we have not consulted with Mr. Metinpur’s family or anyone else for that matter. It is necessary to mention this to manage the risk of reprisal by the Iranian authorities against him and his family.

Mr. Metinpur is one of more than hundred individuals who are being persecuted for marking the anniversary of the May 2006 Mass Protests by the nation of Southern Azerbaijan. It is known that he is being subjected to torture and therefore if you have not already acted on this case and the case of Mr. Jelil Qenilu, we would urge you for an immediate action. Thank you in advance for your care.

Yours sincerely,
Boyuk Resuloglu

Chairperson of the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis

* Please get information file: [1] Clik here