Omdat deze families niet in Israël wonen kunnen zij de regeringsleden en Knessetleden niet continu bestoken met hun hartverscheurende verdriet om het gemis van hun geliefde of naaste familielid. Het feit dat het Iraanse regime mensen zomaar laat verdwijnen en de familie waarschijnlijk nooit te weten zal komen wat er met hen is gebeurd, is een schande die een scherpe veroordeling door de VN, Amnesty en Human Rights Watch verdient, en Europa en de VS zouden druk op Iran uit moeten oefenen om hieraan een einde te maken.
Hoeveel mensen er in totaal in Iraanse gevangenissen wegrotten zonder enige vorm van proces weet waarschijnlijk niemand.
Voor de media zijn deze mensen in elk geval een stuk minder interessant dan de Palestijnse gevangenen in Israël, die wel een proces hebben gehad (behalve zij die in administratieve detentie zitten, wat maximaal een half jaar kan duren), en die contact hebben met de buitenwereld.
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Families of 12 Missing Iranian Jews Make Final Plea to Prime Minister Olmert for News About Their Loved Ones
The families of 12 missing Iranian Jews, believed to be imprisoned in Teheran, have written a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to meet with them prior to undertaking any steps in the pending deal with the Hizbollah terrorist organization. The families will demand that Israel not release any information concerning the fate of four missing Iranian officials to the United Nations without receiving information on their disappeared loved ones as well.
The 12 Jews were arrested in the 1990s as they sought to escape from Iran across the border with Pakistan and they are believed to still be held in Iranian prisons. The Iranian diplomats were captured by Christian militia forces in South Lebanon in 1982 during the first Israeli-Lebanon War..
Among the missing Jews is Babak Teherani, the son of Los Angeles parents, Ilana Cohen-Teherani and Yousef Shaouliian Teherani who is believed to have been arrested in Iran 14 years ago while attempting to cross the border and was spotted in a Tehran prison several years after his disappearance. Babak was arrested near the Iran-Pakistan just prior to his attempt to escape, on or around June 10, 1994 and was only 14 went he disappeared. A Muslim neighbor from Teheran, who later joined the Teherani family in Los Angeles, has testified that he saw the boy, and other of the 11 missing Jews, alive and well in a dark and damp Teheran prison in 1996.
The urgent letter, sent to the Prime Minister by the Teherani familiy's attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center human rights organization, demands that the Prime Minister not authorize the transfer of information regarding the missing Iranian diplomats until such time as reliable and detailed information is received about the fate of all the missing Iranian Jews. The families have never received any acknowledgment of their loved ones' arrests, status or whereabouts from the Islamic regime.
The families wrote in the letter that their feeling of abandonment is deep and they feel that their case has been pushed aside and forgotten by all, including the government and Israeli public.
The letter to the PM argues that the government must honor the obligations imposed upon it by the Israeli High Court approximately two years ago in a prior petition brought by the Persian families that [the Israeli government] "Push forward diligently without sparing any effort in order to gain information about the [12 missing] Jews of Iran."
The families are insisting that there be a "quid pro quo" on information about their family members in exchange for the release of the details on the fate of the missing Iranians. According to Darshan-Leitner: "Saving the lives of these missing Jews, still being held in Iranian prisons after years of torture must be a central component of any deal with Hizbollah and Iran."
http://www.israellawcenter.org
The 12 Jews were arrested in the 1990s as they sought to escape from Iran across the border with Pakistan and they are believed to still be held in Iranian prisons. The Iranian diplomats were captured by Christian militia forces in South Lebanon in 1982 during the first Israeli-Lebanon War..
Among the missing Jews is Babak Teherani, the son of Los Angeles parents, Ilana Cohen-Teherani and Yousef Shaouliian Teherani who is believed to have been arrested in Iran 14 years ago while attempting to cross the border and was spotted in a Tehran prison several years after his disappearance. Babak was arrested near the Iran-Pakistan just prior to his attempt to escape, on or around June 10, 1994 and was only 14 went he disappeared. A Muslim neighbor from Teheran, who later joined the Teherani family in Los Angeles, has testified that he saw the boy, and other of the 11 missing Jews, alive and well in a dark and damp Teheran prison in 1996.
The urgent letter, sent to the Prime Minister by the Teherani familiy's attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center human rights organization, demands that the Prime Minister not authorize the transfer of information regarding the missing Iranian diplomats until such time as reliable and detailed information is received about the fate of all the missing Iranian Jews. The families have never received any acknowledgment of their loved ones' arrests, status or whereabouts from the Islamic regime.
The families wrote in the letter that their feeling of abandonment is deep and they feel that their case has been pushed aside and forgotten by all, including the government and Israeli public.
The letter to the PM argues that the government must honor the obligations imposed upon it by the Israeli High Court approximately two years ago in a prior petition brought by the Persian families that [the Israeli government] "Push forward diligently without sparing any effort in order to gain information about the [12 missing] Jews of Iran."
The families are insisting that there be a "quid pro quo" on information about their family members in exchange for the release of the details on the fate of the missing Iranians. According to Darshan-Leitner: "Saving the lives of these missing Jews, still being held in Iranian prisons after years of torture must be a central component of any deal with Hizbollah and Iran."
http://www.israellawcenter.org
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