Dr. Foroud Fouladvand to be executed with two of his compatriots inside the Mullahs' jail in Iran.





Dr Frood Fouladvand disappeared along with two colleagues Nazzen Schmit US citizen and Alexander Valizadeh German citizen on 17th January 2007. Their rented car of Hertz Car Rental was found damaged at a location told as Hakkari, East Turkey, close to the border with Iran. Car Reg. No. 34ZDZ04, Booking Ref No. D52837365A8 under the name of one of Fouladvands associates Nazzen Schmit the US citizen, who disappeared with him on the same date.





The car was given to the Turkish police by the Adana Military Service on 24th January 2007 and back to Hertz on the 7th February 2007, day on which all of the above mentioned was told to us by Hertz.





The three men were apparently abducted on 17 January 2007 in Yьksekova, a district of Hakkari Province in Turkey, near the border with Iran.





Amnesty International has learnt that Foroud Fouladvand currently be held in Tehran, in a detention centre run by the Ministry of Intelligence. He is said to have been charged with Mofsed fil Arz (corruption on earth) and moharebeh (being at enmity with God), which can carry the death penalty.





Dr. Fouladvand, who is an expert on Islam, openly challenged the Qur'an in his daily television broadcasts for listeners both inside and outside Iran. His Television discussions were educational, historical and political to the Mullahs. On March 10, 2006, in a preplanned action, about 65 of his supporters refused to leave a Lufthansa plane in protest of the European Union's policy of appeasement of the Mullahs' regime.





Dr. Fouladvand was led to believe by an agent of the Mullahs' regime posing as a monarchist activist from within Iran that there were many Iranian patriots inside Iran who believed in him, and that a meeting with them would be fruitful in organizing and uniting people inside Iran to oppose the Mullahs. On October 13, 2006, Dr. Fouladvand and a number of his friends, including the above-named men, left London for the Turkish/Iranian border. The last news of Dr. Fouladvand's whereabouts was on January 17, 2007, when he was expected to meet the supposedly Iranian activists in the Kurdish province of Hakkary in Iraq, which is close to the Iranian border.





In January 2007, the agents of the Mullahs' secret police arrested and smuggled these three men into Iran, where they were imprisoned and were subjected to torture.RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in Persian, English, Arabic or your own language:





- calling on the authorities to clarify the whereabouts of Foroud Fouladvand, Alexander Valizadeh and Nazem Schmidtt;





- should they be held in Iran, calling on the authorities to ensure that they are not subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, and to allow them immediate access to a lawyer of their own choosing, and any medical treatment they may require;





- asking for clarification of the circumstances surrounding their apparent arrest; what charges, if any, have been brought against them; and when any trial will begin;





- calling on the authorities to release them unless they are to be charged with a recognizably criminal offence and given a prompt and fair trial.





Please support Mr. Fouladvand, Simorgh and Koroosh in these difficult times by signing the petition below.





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