NCR calls for immediate international action to free Sarkouhi

The National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns the arrest of Mr. Faraj Sarkouhi, the editor of Adineh magazine. He was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport on November 3 when he was getting on the plane to leave Iran for Germany.

After 11 days of silence, the Khomeini regime's press reported yesterday that Mr. Sarkouhi had departed Tehran according to the schedule and entered Germany. The mullah's Ministry of Intelligence has disseminated such a bogus news to counter international pressure and at the same time prepare the grounds for conspiring against the life of Mr. Sarkouhi.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran urges all international human rights organizations and the UNHRC Special Representative, Professor Maurice Danby Copithorne, to denounce this act of suppression by the mullahs and take immediate measures to save the life and secure the release of Mr. Sarkouhi.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
November 14, 1996

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