Re: Serious concern for the safety
of our client and our directors
Dear
Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you in order to
express my deep concerns regarding the safety of our client Mr. Mohammad
Mohammadi as well as two directors of our organization including
myself.
As Human Right advocacy group it is
our foremost duty to question and challenge any system/individual that violates
the fundamentals of the charter that we all believe in. In the past few month we were working on
behalf of a Canadian Citizen, Mr. Mustafa Mohammadi, and his family to
facilitate the freedom of his young daughter from a military camp in Iraq that
is under the control of this Iranian political organization known as “Mojahedin
e Khalgh” or MEK.
Since the story of this family was
picked up by national media and based on the interest expressed by National
Post, we collaborated with the NP reporter Mr. Stewart Bell, in various capacity
from translator to mediator; and the result was a five (5) part series that was
published from September 23rd to September 28th on the
front page of that paper with the mention to our Centre and repeated quotas from
us. Needless to say, this report
was not written in the favor of this organization.
Since this organization is active in
Canada, as known by your
office, the local members have informed their other pockets in North America and
Europe hence an extensive campaign started
against us. The regular attacks on
their various media from TV/Radio programs to the papers and Websites accuses us
as being the agents of Iranian Regime, a very old and overplayed rhetoric, and
asks their members to “deal” with us.
Since the young Mohammad, the is the
brother of the girl in camp Ashraf, was kept in that camp against his will for 4
years in the past, he was the key witness in preparation of that article. In the recent days and after the
continuation of the threats he is very scared about his own safety which makes
us uncomfortable too. Since the
clear instruction of this organization, as per their leader and stated in many
of their publications, is to eliminate any individual who turns against the
organization, defector, his concern for his safety is understandable. At the same time I and another director
of our Centre Mr. Saeed Soltanpour, a well known journalist in our community,
have been included in many of those threats and accusations.
Knowing the volume of the issues you
are dealing with we are not requesting any particular protection at this time
but merely to inform you about the situation.
Sincerely
Yours
Niaz Salimi
Director, North American
Divisions
Centre for Thought, Dialogue and
Human Rights in Iran (CTDHR) – Toronto
9251 Yonge St.
#219
Richmond
Hill, ON
L4C 9T3 Canada
www.cdhriran.blogspot.com
