Am kommenden Freitag, dem 14. Mai 2010, sind die sieben Mitglieder der ehemaligen informellen Führung der iranischen Bahá’í-Gemeinde zwei Jahre im berüchtigten Evin-Gefängnis inhaftiert. Die Haftbedingungen der zwei Frauen und fünf Männer sind unverantwortlich hart und verstoßen selbst gegen inneriranische Gesetze; abgesehen davon, dass auch der Iran sich verpflichtet hat, seine Gefangenen nicht grausamen Bestrafungen zu unterziehen, wie es verschiedene völkerrechtliche Abkommen darlegen.
Das internationale Menschenrechtsnetzwerk für den Iran – united4iran.com – hat zu einer Aktion aufgerufen, die auf die harten Haftbedingungen aufmerksam macht. Wir möchten an dieser Stelle diese Aktion empfehlen:
We invite you to commemorate this anniversary by taking the following action before May 14th, 2010 to highlight the cases of these 7 Baha’i citizens. Because these 7 members of the Baha’i community have spent the last two years sleeping on concrete floors in small, confine spaces, we invite you to demonstrate your solidarity with and support for these prisoners by doing the following:
1. In any space, mark off, cut out, or draw a box the size of an Evin prison cell: 2×3 meters to represent the space of the two women or 3×4 meters to represent the spaced shared by the five men. (For those of you with yardsticks, this translates to 6.5 x 9.8 feet for the women’s cells and 9.8 x 13 feet for the men’s.)
2. Easy ways of making these cells include marking off areas with yarn or rope in grass, cutting out or using butcher paper of the above sizes, or even using chalk to sketch the cells on the ground.
3. Just as these seven Baha’i prisoners have done for the past two years, share the “cells” with other people, two people per small box and five for the larger.
4. Pre-print one of the suggested posters to include in the project, either by incorporating it into the cell or by having a participant hold it while standing in the “cell.”
5. Take pictures or shoot video of the cells being shared and send it to us at share@united4iran.org no later than May 14, 2010. Pictures and video will be compiled into slide-shows and other dynamic media that can easily go viral, forwarded to both those in Iran and across the world, in a collective effort to bring the international community’s attention to the ongoing arbitrary imprisonment that these 7 Baha’i citizens have endured