Iran: Prisoner of conscience/fear of torture: Amir Abbas Banayi Kazimi (m) \n\n

Iran: Prisoner of conscience/fear of torture: Amir Abbas Banayi Kazimi (m) \n\n

Index Number: MDE 13/108/2007
Date Published: 31 August 2007
Categories: Iran, Middle East And North Africa, Middle East And North Africa

Azerbaijani language rights activist Amir Abbas Banayi Kazimi was beaten and detained on 14 May at his home in Tabriz: he was reportedly first held at a Ministry of Intelligence detention centre, then moved on around 1 August to Tabriz's central prison, where his mother was able to visit him. She told an interviewer from the Voice of America (VOA) Azerbaijani-language radio station that he had been tortured. The following day he was apparently moved to a Ministry of Intelligence detention centre somewhere in Tabriz, where he is at grave risk of torture. He has not been formally charged with any offence.