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Shortly before the talks on Teheran’s controversial atom programme disturbing news from Iran has been received by the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV). The human rights organisation reported on Thursday that the Kurdish writer Gharib Hassani was murdered by the Iranian secret service and the Kurdish publisher and critic Kamal Sharif was abducted. The GfbV fears that he has will be severely tortured while in the hands of the security forces.
The two Kurdish intellectuals travelled from the neighbouring autonomous federal state of Iraqi Kurdistan into the Kurdish region of Iran to visit their families and to obtain their own picture of the situation of their fellow-countrymen. They were tracked down by the Iranian secret service on 25^th June in the town of Saghez some 500 km west of Teheran at the home of a book-seller of their acquaintance.
According to information received from the colleagues of the GfbV office in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, the family of the murdered man is still waiting for the body to be handed over. The abducted man, Sharif, was taken to the provincial capital of Sanandaj some 100 km away for „more detailed“ interrogation.
In the multi-national state of Iran besides the Persians live Azeri, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchi, Turkmens, Assyro-Aramaeans and other smaller ethnic and religious minorities. The non-Persian nationalities make up far more than half of the approximately 75 million citizens or Iran . They are not recognized as peoples of their own with their own languages, culture and history, but are termed deliberately in Iran as „ethnic groups“. They all suffer from suppression and discrimination.
The Kurdish settlement region covers the four provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam, West Aserbaijan and Kurdistan in the west of the country and has with its ten million inhabitants a total area of about 125,000 sq. km. Nearly 98% of the Kurds in Iran profess Islam, 75% of them being Sunnis and 25% Shiites. Human rights, democracy and regional self-government for the Kurds in a democratic federal Iran — that is the declared aim of the Kurdish political parties in Iran .
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