Message from the families

"As Adnan and Hiwa`s families, we appreciate the sympathy and the support of all those people who joined our campaign against the death penalty of adnan and hiwa. Also we would like to certify that your vote and support have delayed the execution. Although their appeal has been accepted by the Iranian Minstry of Justice, Adnan and Hiwa are still in a bad situation due to their very poor health. They were on a hunger strike for almost 42 days with no access to doctors, and they still have no access to doctors. As a result of the hunger strike their health situation is deteriorating therefore we think that Iranian regime is attempting to implement the death penalty in a different way by not letting Adnan and Hiwa to be seen by a professional health care.

Your sincerely,

Families of Adnan and Hiwa "

European Parliament

Dear Mr Stovell,

Thank you very much for your email regarding the death sentences of Adnan Hasanpur and Hiwa Butimar.

As a member of the European Parliament's Human Rights and Foreign Affairs Committees, the human rights situation in Iran is of great importance to me.
I have repeatedly voiced my serious concern over the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran since President Ahmedinejad took office in June 2005, and voted in favour of the Joint resolution on Iran, RC\64011, which calls upon Iran to grant all persons the right to exercise their civil rights and political freedoms. Iranian authorities are expected to fulfil their commitments to promote universal values, which they are also obliged to do by international conventions that it has ratified.

My colleagues and I reminded the Government of Iran of these obligations to safeguard freedom of opinion, and called for the release of all imprisoned journalists and webloggers. We also demanded for the abolition of stoning, strongly condemned the death penalty, and urged
Iran to respect internationally recognised legal safeguards.

In terms of action, we called on Iran to recommence the EU-Iran Human Rights Dialogue with the European Union. The European Council and the European Commission also have a role to play in the human rights situation in Iran, and so the resolution asks of these institutions a
close monitoring of developments in Iran. In doing so, we called upon them to raise concrete cases of human rights abuses as the basic condition for progress in EU-Iran economic and trade relations.

I urged the Commission to make effective use of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, the $200m per year fund which I founded, by for example supporting uncensored media.

I would like to thank you for bringing to my attention these two cases of Adnan Hasanpur and Hiwa Butimar- two more cases amongst, unfortunately, far too many.

Thank you once again for contacting me.

Yours sincerely,

Edward McMillan-Scott.

Vice-President of the European Parliament

London Demo

A recent demo in London protesting Adnan & Hiwa's plight was well attended.

Hunger Strike

Martin Hadi and family and some friends were showing solidarity with his brother Hiwa and Adnan as they staged a public hunger strike this week in London.

Appeal from Martin Hadi- brother of Hiwa

"The two imprisoned men have been visited by their solicitors in the Intelligence Services Jail in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province. According to their advocates they have been on hunger strike since they were moved from Mariwan jail into Sanandaj more than a month ago (40 days) and are therefore in very poor health indeed. The reasons for their hunger strike are the behaviour of Sanandaj Jail commissioners and in order to attract the attention of the Iranian justice authority to change their unfair death verdict.

The solicitors have written to the Sanandaj Jail authority but they have denied any changes in the conditions of the two imprisoned men. The Sanandaj Jail authority has mentioned that any changes in the conditions and circumstances of Mr. Hassanpour and Mr. Butimar are the direct responsibility of the head of the Iranian Justice Faculty, Ayatullah Mahmood Hashemi Sha.

We appeal to the Red Crescent to intervene with the jail authorities and Ayatullah Mahmood Hashemi Sha to allow them to provide medical help for Mr. Adnan Hassanpour and Mr. Abdulwahed (Hiwa) Butimar before their health deteriorates any further. This is extremely urgent please.

Hadi Butimar

zagros2707@yahoo.co.uk

(00447719486669

Hunger Strike

Adnan & Hiwa have both been hunger striking for 35 days now. They are, as you may imagine, very weak.

We are trying to secure the help of Red Crescent/Red Cross to visit them with medical care and even obtain a transfer to a hospital from the jail in Sanandaj.

Keep campaigning on their behalf. Spread the news of this website. Keep writing letters and emails and if you are a praying person, please bring their case before God.

View this file

Click here to view a pdf statement from the THE OBSERVATORY for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders' on behalf of Adnan & Hiwa.

We are fully confident of their rigour and integrity as an organisation in cases like this.

(file name: 092 IRN 007_0807_OBS 092.pdf)

Article and comment

An article from Diana Mukkaled- a prominent and well respected TV journalist in the Arab world

Worth reading.

wow!

Click here to see the British Embassy in Iran standing with us!

Facebook

You can join the Free Adnan & Hiwa Facebook group here

BBC Look North

Great report from Marco Van Belle.

Not August 14th and Not terrorists

Please note that the period for Adnan & Hiwa's appeal ends on August 20th.

Originally we were led to believe the date for execution was August 14th.
We still have time. Sadly the Iranian government is refusing to bow to international pressure thus far.

We must keep on.

Please disregard comments in the media suggesting that Adnan & Hiwa were connected to an alleged militant group- PJAK. They have not taken up arms against the regime. Many websites and news reports are suggesting that this could be the case. It is not. The Iranian government's media machine is clearly trying to sully the reputations of these good men and 'justify' their illegal imprisoning and execution of journalists who speak up for the rights of minorities and condemn the injustices of a brutal regime.

BBC - at last

We get some air time on Tuesday from local BBC radio and television:

Tuesday BBC Radio Sheffield news bulletins.

and

Tuesday BBC1 Look North news 20 past and 5 to the hour (from 6am -9am) then 1.30 pm and 6.30pm news.

Thanks Marco & Natatlie.

Yorkshire Post story

Visit granted for families

Martin Hadi Butimar, brother of Hiwa, writes about his family's visit to Hiwa.


A pleasing and decent visit, but anxious doubly and unpleasant!

I am pretty sure that you have already been aware so far through Medias about Mr. Adnan Hasan Poor and Mr. Hiwa Butimar two Kurdish journalists and social activists whom have been sentenced to death unfairly and far from justices human right frame work by the Iranian Revolutionary Supreme Court in charge of fighting against GOD! and also acting against Iranian National Security. This verdict of Iranian Revolutionary Supreme Court was accompanied by the Human Rights Organisations, Philanthropists, and noble Kurdish Nation’s reactions in all over the world.

As a results of these global pressures on the Iranian Government and also unlimited persistence of the accused to death youth’s families on the Iranian Revolutionary Supreme Court’s Judges and commissioners, they had agreed with short visiting of the families with their imprisoned sentenced to death youth, whom had been jailed in unknown places since they have sentenced to death which was 26 days ago. Of course during this time, the families were living in bewildered situation without having any news about their sons, whether or not that they are still alive.

For now not just as a Brother of Hiwa Butimar but, it is of my obligation as a human to inform all Medias, Human Rights Organisations, Philanthropists, Noble Kurdish Nation, Liberal Iranians and all democratic states in all over the world, about the current status of Adnan Hassan Poor and Hiwa Butimar and their general health according to the statements of the families after the short visiting of them.

The families were awarded a short visit of their son by the Iranian Intelligence service in Sanandaj Intelligence service’s jail, on Tuesday the August 9^th 2007. the intelligence service commissioners were let 2 members of each families to visit their son while two officers were presented during the visit and they were pictured every moments of their meeting. This appointment have clarified for the families that their son are imprisoned in Sanandaj.

Mr. Adnan hasan Poor and Mr. Hiwa Butimar were mentioned the they have been displaced suddenly from Mariwan Public prisons to Sanandaj Jail 26 days ago without making them aware of their death sentences, and also without attendance of their advocate. They have been undergoing tortures and strict torment in Sanandaj Jail since they have been arrived there, and therefore as an objection against these wild treatments of the Jail wardens, they have been strike from eating since that time. However they have written 3 letters to the Court about their strike and they have delivered them to the Jail commissioner, which none of them has not been handled to the Court yet.

However, they were not informed from their death sentences from date that issued up to last week when they were reading their Death Sentenced Confirmation by the Iranian Justice spokesman in the Jail’s newspaper as his statements were published in the several Daily Newspapers in Iran. After knowing about their death sentences in Newspaper eventually, they have been more deterministic on their strike and persisting on it, which is still continuing. According to the family, they are not in good health conditions and they definitely need medical treatments as soon as possible. Otherwise they are going through more and more weakness and gradual dying from starvation as results of their strike. In additions, the Jail’s Commissioners have denied the medical check up or treatments of them by the Jail’s Doctor.

As families of Mr. Adnan Hasan Poor and Mr. Hiwa Butimar, we are stretching out our hands humbly towards Non Border Physicians Organisation, Humans Right Watch, Humans Right Defenders and all philanthropists in all over the world to help our sons in the Jail.

Hadi Butimar

Zagros2707@yahoo.co.uk

0044 771 948 6669

0044 770 311 2814