May 2011 Action Item
Join Amnesty International and thousands around the globe calling for the release of Majid Tavakkoli:
Majid Tavakkoli is a member of the Islamic Students' Association at Amir Kabir University. On 7 December 2009 Tavakkoli made a speech at one of the nationwide student demonstrations that day to protest the disputed presidential election of June 2009.
According to Amnesty International, his lawyer was not permitted
to attend his trial, which took place in January 2010. Majid
Tavakkoli was subsequently sentenced to eight and a half years in
jail for insulting officials, spreading propaganda against the state
and gathering and colluding with intent to harm state security. He is
a prisoner of conscience.
Click on the link below to find out
sign an online petition calling for the release of Majid Tavakkoli
and greater freedom of expression within the
Iran!
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/c.jhKPIXPCIoE/b.6699949/k.5A27/Free_Majid_Tavakkoli/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?ICID=I1104A01&msource=WI1104A01&tr=y&auid=8114537
Or
even better, please send a respectful letter to the Head of the
Judiciary:
Ayatollah
Sadegh Larijani
Head of the Judiciary
Howzeh
Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh
(Office of the Head of the
Judiciary)
Pasteur Street, Vali Asr Ave.
South of serah-e
Jomhouri
Tehran, 1316814737
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
IRAN
Salutation: Your Excellency:
Call for the
immediate and unconditional release of Majid Tavakkoli
Request
that Majid Tavakkoli have access to adequate legal counsel and
medical care, and ask that a prompt and impartial investigation into
the reports that he was beaten during his arrest be conducted
Urge
that greater freedom of expression and dissent be allowed within
Iran.