Friday, 11 December 2015

Iran: Campaign to free imprisoned student photographer



More than 70 Iranian graduates have started a campaign for the release of their friend and colleague, photographer Hammed Saber student, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, reported launched last month. Saber was arrested on June 21 and there was no communication about his whereabouts not.

It is thought his arrest was in response to pictures that he took of protests after the disputed presidential election last year. She posted on the websites photo-sharing Flicker and Picasso under his own name, was allegedly published in foreign media, including the cover of the German magazine Deer Spiel.

Saber was a prolific photographer, and also design software users enabled the filters that countries such as Iran, the United Arab Emirates, China and others on Flicker placed bypass.

He also posted online photos of the moment in prison Oxford student Mohamed Jalapeno, as well as a few hundred of the Iranian protesters.

In a statement on WWW.freeholder.blog spot.com, a group of his university classmates and professors say that Saber chose not to emigrate despite the opportunity, because he wanted to work on Iran's freedom.


They went on officials to "respect each others ideas and create such conditions where all people, especially experts can freely play a role in the progress of the country". They gave Saber be a fair trial.

Iran: Prominent scholar sentenced to prison

Emadeddin Bagri, a prominent Iranian scholar, journalist and human rights activist, was sentenced to one year in prison and banned political activities for five years, following a two-year trial for the formation of an organization to the right to defend prisoners, Reporters without Borders reported on 26 July.

Bagri was arrested at his home in December 2009, the day after the huge demonstrations in Tehran and other cities during a Shiite religious festival. He was arrested without charge and held in solitary confinement in Even Prison, and access to medical care, legal representation and family denies. He was released on bail last month after 180 days in prison.

Bathe wait a second trial brought by the intelligence ministry regarding allegations surrounding his appearance in an interview by BBC Persia carried out by a now deceased government critic and senior clergy.

He was awarded the French Republic's Human Rights Prize in 2005 for his campaign to abolish the death penalty in Iran, and was the 2009 recipient of the award for Martin Annals’ human rights activists

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