Freedom for Iran

Yesterday 14 November was tweet stome for 8 political prisoners in two diffrent prisons of Iran in Urmia and Tehran. Among them are tow artist, Hossein Rajabian filmmaker and Mehdi Rajabian musician. The brothers are currently serving 3-years prison terms. In Iran under mullah's rule art is considered a crime and artist is also criminal. A third artist Keywan Karimi has also been sentenced to six years’ in prison for “insulting Islamic sanctities”, also related to his artistic work and is at imminent risk of imprisonment.
On 8 November 2016, Amnesty International called on artists and members of the public around the world to join a #FreeArtists campaign to demand that Iran immediately and unconditionally release jailed artists, including a musician and a filmmaker who are on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison. To day we have also tweet storm to support the artists imprisoned. Their imprisonment is yet another nail in the coffin for freedom of expression in Iran. The human right to liberty is sadly so undervalued by the Iranian authorities that they are prepared to condemn individuals to years in jail just to silence artistic voices that they deem as ‘anti-Islamic’ and ‘anti-revolutionary’.
“Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is the latest young writer and activist to be caught up in Iran’s relentless crackdown on artistic expression. Her imprisonment for peacefully voicing her opposition to stoning is a terrible injustice and an outrageous assault on freedom of expression. It is also a shocking and deeply disturbing display of support for the cruel and inhuman punishment of stoning,” said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International. NCRI- According to reports from Iranian prisons, the political prisoners Rasoul Razavi, Morteza Morad Pour
and Hossein Ali Mohammadi were still on
hunger strike on 12 November.