REZAI AND ZAREEN MUST BE PROTECTED

To: 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, hqpr00@unhcr.ch

I / My organisation am / is writing to express my/ our concern about the situation of Abbas Rezai and Ghafor Zarin, two Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker languishing in Indian prisons for the past six months.

I / my organisation call(s) on the UNHCR to immediately grant the two protection and refugee recognition, facilitate their release from prison, and resettle them to a safe third country. They are at risk of being deported to Iran where as former political prisoners and activists they will face torture, cruel and inhuman treatment and punishment, and persecution.

Your immediate action is requested.

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