Support Abbas Amini
His life is at risk
27 May 2003
Abas
Amini, an Iranian Communist asylum seeker who was finally granted protection at
a court hearing after two long years in the UK, has sewn his lips, ears and
eyes in protest to the Home Office's appeal of his being granted recognition.
The Home Office insists that Amini must be refused and deported to Iran!
While in Iran and despite the repressive
regime, Amini fought hard against the Islamic regime. 33 year old Amini began
his organised political activities in Iran at the young age of 15. He was
imprisoned for six years at the age of 17. In prison, he was seriously tortured by the
Islamic regime of Iran. He managed to flee and arrived in the UK in 2001. He
was forced to leave his spouse and child in Iran. Today, this hopeful dissenter
has been pushed to such heights of despair by the British government that he
has lost his will to live. Despite the requests of the activists of the
International Federation of Iranian Refugees to not harm himself, he has rather
sewn his lips and eyes together and die than be returned to Iran where he will
face serious persecution. While the Islamic regime of Iran was responsible for Amini's persecution and torture and flight, today, it is
the British Home Office that his responsible for placing his life at risk. Today,
it is the UK government that has pushed a political activist to such despair.
Amini says he is hunger striking and protesting not only for himself
but for all asylum seekers whose rights have been violated by the UK
government.
The International Federation of
Iranian Refugees (IFIR) holds the UK government responsible for Amini's life. While this government is busy wheeling and
dealing with the Islamic regime in Iran, it continues to sacrifice asylum
seekers with its racist and anti-human policies.
IFIR calls on all groups and
individuals to remind the UK government that it cannot play with Amini's life or the lives of innumerable asylum seekers
from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Amini must be granted asylum. We must not
allow racist asylum policies to take any more victims. Amini must live.
* You can send letters of support
to Amini via ifir@ukonline.co.uk.
* Send letters of protest to the
UK Home Office and defend Abas Amini
Home Secretary David Blunkett
Home Office, 50 Queen Annes Gate, London SW1H 9AT
Fax: +44 20 7273 4647
public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
We are shocked to learn that the Home Office has appealed a court decision to grant Abas Amini, a 33-year old political opponent of the Islamic regime in Iran, asylum after two years of waiting in a state of limbo. He is at risk of being deported to Iran; he will face serious persecution and execution if returned.
The Home Office's unfair decision has pushed Amini to such heights of despair that he has sewn his lips, eyes, and ears together and gone on hunger strike to protest this appalling decision. He says he would rather die than be returned to Iran where he spent six years in prison and was seriously tortured by the Islamic regime in Iran.
We call on the Home Office to stop victimising Amini and other asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. The British government's racist asylum policy and its imposition of refusals, detentions and deportations as well as abject poverty and rightlessness on those fleeing political Islam and despotism is condemned. Amini must not die.
Needless to say, we hold the UK government accountable for Amini's life.
Signed:
Name
Organisation (if any)
Cc: ifir@ukonline.co.uk