Mr. Kavoussi is being viciously tortured and interrogated. The mullahs' anti-human dictatorship intends to force him to appear in the Friday prayers or a television interview to denounce the Mojahedin. Nonetheless, in reaction to international pressure for Mr. Kavoussi's rescue, the regime's agents have referred to Mr. Kavoussi's family, denying his presence in Iran, so that the mullahs' interrogators would enjoy a freer rein in torturing Mehrdad Kavoussi.
Upon Turkey's handing over of Mr. Kavoussi to the regime's sercurity forces at the border, the mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence took special measures to receive him. His arrest documents, which were initially at the disposal of the Prosecutor's Office, were doctored and transferred to the Department of Intelligence, and Mr. Kavoussi was immediately handed over to the Ministry of Intelligence.
Mehrdad Kavoussi, 36, a former political prisoner who had spent ten years in Evin and Qezel-Hessar prisons, is a Mojahedin sympathizer. He had referred to the Police in Agri, while accompanied by a lawyer from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Instead of registering him, however, the police arrested Mr. Kavoussi and extradited him to the mullahs' regime.
The Iranian Resistance urges the international authorities to help save Mehrdad Kavoussi's life. The Iranian Resistance further draws the attention of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to the deplorable condition of the Iranian asylum-seekers in Turkey and the Turkish policy regarding their extradition. The Iranian Resistance urges the UNHCR to expedite the process of granting asylum to the Iranian asylum-seekers and their transfer to a third country.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
May 13, 1996
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