Iranian Resistance condemns arrest, persecution of Iranian asylum-seekers

Reports from Turkey say that Thursday night more than 60 Iranian asylum-seekers, who had staged a sit-in at the Office of Turkey's Socialist Party, were arrested by Turkish police. Two days before the transfer, the building's electricity and telephone line had been cut off.

The asylum-seekers, who include a number of women and children, started the sit-in nearly one year ago in protest to the rejection of their asylum request and the Turkish government's intention to extradite them to the Khomeini regime.

The National Council of Resistance considers such inhuman treatment of asylum-seekers, who have fled the oppression and repression of the mullahs' anti-human regime, as a blatant violation of the sacred right to asylum.

It calls upon relevant international bodies to intervene immediately to prevent the repatriation of these asylum-seekers to Iran. For their expulsion would result in the arrest and torture of many of them.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
June 29, 1996

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