The FIDH et RSF have launched an international campaign calling upon the Iranian authorities to liberate immediately and unconditionally all prisoners of opinion detained in Iran. Several hundred prisoners of opinion are in Iranian jails. Some of them have been in prison for several years, many others were arrested more recently, after the popular demonstrations following the 12 June 2009 elections, which involved massive fraud. They are all in prison because of their opinions - they denounce human rights violations perpetrated in their country; they mobilize against gender-based discrimination; they defend the rights of ethnic and religious minorities; they do not share the regime's interpretation of Islam; they claim their right to vote... 
By maintaining these people in detention, by subjecting them to torture, by coercing them to confess so-called « crimes », by condemning them after blatantly unfair trials, the Iranian authorities seriously violate their international human rights commitments, and they are accountable for these acts.

We therefore call upon the Iranian authorities to liberate immediately and unconditionally all prisoners of opinion detained in Iran.
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