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Iran Focus
 London, Jul. 31 – Iran’s Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an
article that the international community should not ignore the plight of
other political prisoners in Iran as well as focusing on the case
of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji,
a Persian-language website reported on Sunday.
Ebadi said that while the case of Akbar Ganji was “a regretful
example of the harsh situation of political prisoners and prisoners of
conscience in Iran that has gained attention in
recent weeks”, other political prisoners must not be forgotten.
She cautioned human rights activists that they must not “forget other
political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who are not as famous as Ganji”.
“Forgotten prisoners are those who are spending hard days in prisons such
as Evin, Rajai-Shahr,
and other prisons in towns near and far”, the human rights lawyer added.
Such prisons are full of problems and humanitarian issues, Ebadi said, adding, “In the recent report by the head
of Tehran’s Judiciary to the head of the Judiciary
about the state of prisoners, only a very small section of the realities
are mentioned”.
The Nobel laureate said that she was speaking of prisons
in which political prisoners are locked up in solitary confinement for long
periods, not allowed to meet their lawyers, and treated inhumanely.
“We should work together for the freedom of all political prisoners and
prisoners of conscience. To have their minimum human rights respected, they
need to not be forgotten, something that has occurred to most of them” Ebadi said.
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