Urgent Action

Stop Deportation of two Iranians from India

Abbas Rezai (25 years old) and Ghafor Zarin (28 years old), two Iranian asylum seekers born in Iranian Kurdistan were arrested and imprisoned by the Indian authorities in Mumbai, India in February 2001. Both are former political prisoners who will face torture and cruel and inhuman treatment and punishment should they be deported to Iran.

The two are at serious risk of deportation to Iran. IFIR calls on progressive groups and individuals to write to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees demanding that they be granted refugee recognition and resettlement to a safe third country and to the Indian embassies in various countries demanding that they be released and their deportation stopped.

Office of the UNHCR Chargé de Mission in India

P.O. Box 3135, New Delhi 110003, India

Tel: 0091 114 616 038

Fax: 0091 114 620 137

E-mail: indne@unhcr.ch

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