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Iran: Arrest and torture of pastor Avanessian during Christmas time

New arrest of pastor Youcef Nadarkhani



Pastor  Vervier Avanessian from Iran’s Church underwent surgery in a hospital in Tehran under control of Iranian regime’s suppressive organs on Monday, December 31, on the eve of New Year while one of his kidneys had stopped work due to brutal torture. Despite his serious conditions, he was transferred to the infamous Evin torture center for further torture.
On Thursday, 27 December 2012, pastor Vervier Avanessian and 50 compatriots who had recently converted to Christianity, were observing a ceremony on the occasion of Christmas and the New Year in a house north of Tehran. They were attacked by agents of mullahs’ intelligence and arrested.
Moreover, the clerical regime once again arrested pastor Youcef Nadarkhani during Christmas to prevent him from conducting religious ceremonies. Priest Nadarkhani had been arrested in 2008 and condemned to death for “apostasy”. However, because of an extensive international campaign, he was released from prison in September 2012.
Declaring its strongest abhorrence regarding the arbitrary arrest and torture of Christian priests compatriots, especially in Christmas times and on the eve of the Christian New Year, the Iranian Resistance calls on all international bodies and human rights advocates, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on human rights violations in Iran and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion, to send the record of mullahs’  crimes to the UN security council in order adopt and implement resolute decisions to stop this criminal and inhuman trend by the mullahs ruling Iran.
The government of henchmen is not worthy of presence in the family of nations and has to be banished from the international community.



Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 1, 2013

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