October 09, 2011
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| Faranak Farid |
Even before being known as an activist in the Azerbaijani women’s movement, she was an eloquent speaker who expressed her innermost feelings in rhythmic language, and a poet known by the pen name İpək (“Silk”), possessing a spirit as delicate and precious as silk.
Faranak Farid is a writer who, through her writing and at times through her eloquent speech, brought the cultural and social suffering and deprivation experienced by Azerbaijani women to public attention. What justification, then, can there be for arresting a woman whose every written and spoken work has been published with official authorization?
Throughout the thirty years in which Faranak has been active in various social and cultural spheres, she has never fallen into the trap of misguided extremism. This reflects her culture-oriented disposition. Her devotion to cultural matters—particularly Azerbaijani Turkish culture—and her efforts to promote it have made her a highly respected figure among Azerbaijani social, cultural, and political activists alike.
Yet, after three decades of continuous social and cultural activity, she has now been arrested with violence and subjected to physical assault. In an Intelligence Ministry detention facility, she is being denied even the most basic rights ordinarily afforded to a prisoner.
Given that her arrest coincided with the Azerbaijani people’s protests, during which many Azerbaijani civil activists were arrested, there is serious concern that the current tense and turbulent atmosphere may prevent this distinguished woman from receiving fair treatment.
In view of the foregoing, we, the undersigned, condemn the arrest and physical assault of Faranak Farid and demand her immediate and unconditional release.
Signatories:
Ebrahim Ebrahimi
Ebrahim Ramezani
Abuzar Azaran
Ahmad Jaber
Ahmad Hesamipour
Ahmad Khandoozi
Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Ahmad Moheb
Ahmad Mashouf
Ahmad Movahednia
Akhtar Bazzazi
Arsalan Ganjavizadeh
Asadollah Hosseini
Esfandiar Ziaei
Dr. Eslam Ghariblu
Esmail Polsangi
Esmail Taleshi
Esmail Jamili
Esmail Lotfi
Ashraf Nakhjavani
Ashkan Monfared
Asghar Shakiba
Aslan Yamouti
Aslan Amiri
Aslan Shahseven
Aslan Arabloui
Azam Mirian
Afsaneh Borzouei
Afsaneh Sevgin
Afsaneh Sulduzlu
Akbar Pashaei
Dr. Akbar Shakiba
Akbar Mahdi
Akram Kheirkhah
Akram Rahimli (Heydarli)
Elnaz Ansari
Elnaz Babaei
Elham Ganji
Elaheh Amani
Elaheh Shokraei
Elaheh Salehi
Elaheh Mashayekhi
Omid Kouhi
Amir Bahari
Amir Chamani
Amir Khodir
Amir Mardani
Amir Rashidi
Amir-Reza Azadmanesh
Amin Ahmadian
Amin Sattari
Amin Farid Yahyaei
Ensaf-Ali Hedayat
Anvar Mirsattari
Anousheh Mashouf
Aniseh Salmani
Ulduz Sadegh
Oveis Akhavan
Eyvaz Modabber
Ayoub Namini
Eldar Salour
Eldar Yurtchi
Elman Bargoshadi
Elman Ostajlu
Elman Ayrimlu
Elnaz Sardarinia
Elnaz Shakeri
Elnaz Shamlu
Elnaz Garakhanlu
Elyar Mesgari
Eva Karlsson
Atilla Sababi
Atilla Maralanli
Azar Mohammadian
Azarakhsh Sadeghzadeh
Dr. Araz Soleimani
Araz Farrokhi
Araz Fardi
Araz Fanni
Dr. Araz Yahyaei
Araz Marandi
Araz Jalayir
Arezou Mohammadyari
Arash Ahmadi
Arash Pishdadian
Arash Hami
Arash Avazpour
Arash Kamangar
Dr. Arash Naraghi
Arash Jalili Ardabili
Arman Yahyaei
Azad Moradian
Azadeh Khosrowshahi
Azadeh Shahseven
Dr. Azadeh Davachi
Dr. Azadeh Kian
Asieh Amini
Dr. Asef Bayat
Aytek Hokmabadi
Aytekin Demirchilu
Aytekin Sarabi
Aida Abroufarakh
Aida Urmulu
Aida Behnia
Aida Tamjidi
Aida Saadat
Aida Qajar
Aida Karimli
Aida Mohammadian
Aida Zanjanchi
Aida Ajirlu
Aida Gholami
Aydin Taghipour
Aydin Mirzeh
Aydin Shafiei
Aydin Esmailzadeh
Aydin Mamagani
Aydin Ahari
Aysan Bilgin
Aysan Mohammadian
Aysan Ordubadi
Aysan Nazarlu
Aylar Namini
Aylar Ghezelayagh
Aylar Mohammadian
Aylin Bilgin
Aylin Duzduzani
Aylin Ojani
Babak Ejlali
Babak Aslani
Babak Bakhtavar
Babak Tamjidi
Babak Shahed
Babak Arabloui
Babak Moghanli
Eng. Babak Razavi
Babak Mohammadi
Bashir Mohammadi
Banafsheh Jamali
Banafsheh Hejazi
Bahar Khosour
Bahar Behrouvan
Behboud Gholizadeh
Behjat Omid
Behrouz Farrokhi
Behrouz Vahidi
Bahman Amini
Bahman Ghaffari
Behnam Nikzad
Bijan Pirzadeh
Partow Nouri-Ala
Parastou Allahyari
Parham Safamanesh
Parviz Urmulu
Parvin Ardalan
Parvin Farhang
Pari Ebrahimi
Pari Alipour
Parinaz Sadeghi
Polad Karimli
Pouya Azizi
Peyman Malaz
Peyman Vafi
Pinar Farajzadeh
Tara Salek-Doust
Tarinaz Behrad
Tania Shams
Taymaz Mehralibeyli
Telnaz Nemati
Soraya Fallah
Jadi Mirmirani
Javid Moharrami
Javidan Elbaris
Jafar Afsharnia
Eng. Jafar Keyvanchahr
Jafar Narvani
Jafar Tohidifar
Jalal Safaroghlu
Jalal Koudarilu
Jelveh Javaheri
Javad Safavi
Javad Alipour
Javad Mohammadi
Jeyhun Garabaghi
Hafez Khiavi
Habib Mousavi Bibalani
Hassan Ansari Siakhali
Hassan Tamjidi
Hassan Dadvar
Eng. Hassan Rashedi
Hassan Razmjoo
Hassan Zarhi
Eng. Hassan Shariatmadari
Hassan Kazemzadeh
Hassan Nourivand
Eng. Hassan Amanzadeh
Hossein Ostajlu
Hossein Amiri
Hossein Anvar-Haghighi
Hossein Heydari
Hossein Kharoushi Isalu
Hossein Qodsi
Dr. Hossein Kameli
Dr. Hossein Kamali
Hossein Mohammadkhani (Guneyli)
Hossein Naghipour
Hossein Naghilu
Dr. Hossein Yahyaei
Hossein Yurd
Hossein Nourivand
Eng. Hamdollah Abedi
Hamid Hazratpour
Hamid Khosravi
Dr. Hamid Dadashi
Dr. Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Mafi
Hamid Mousavipour-Asl
Hamid Mahdilu
Hamid-Reza Nedaei
Hamideh Nezami
Hamila Nisgilli
Khatereh Soltani
Khaghan Baghiroghlu
Khadijeh Moghaddam
Khosrow Ahangar
Khosrow Bandari
Khosrow Tajrobehkar
Khalil Shafiei
Dadash Aslanzadeh
Dariush Andalibian
Dariush Moghaddam
Davoud Turan
Eng. Davoud Gholami
Dorsa Sobhani
Delaram Ali
Deniz Yalabi
Deniz Zolghadr
Deniz Daryani
Robabeh Taghizadeh
Robabeh Azimi
Roberto Godoy
Rahmat Refat
Rahim Rahmati
Rahim Ghasemzadeh
Rahim Vahedi
Rahim Asadollahi
Rosita Rajaei
Rasmiya Babayeva
Rashid Daneshjouei
Reza Babaei
Dr. Reza Baraheni
Reza Goharzad
Reza Manafi-Azar
Rezvan Moghaddam
Razi Mohammadi
Raha Asgarizadeh
Rouhollah Rahimpour-Motlagh
Reyhaneh Jadidfar
Zara Amjedian
Zohreh Nazemi
Zoya Eskandarian
Zoya Amin
Ziba Karbassi
Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh
Zhila Elbey-Ghizi
Zhila Haghdoust
Sara Ahmadi
Sara Amini
Sara Sahranavard-Fard
Sara Khalili
Samira Farhadi
Sepideh Ebrahimi
Sepideh Khalkhali
Sepideh Yousefzadeh
Sattar Barazesh
Sattar Sevgin
Setareh Badashian
Setareh Hojjati
Setareh Hashemi
Setayesh Hassanpour
Eng. Sajjad Radmehr
Sajjad Azizi
Sahar Ostajlu
Sahar Afshan
Sahar Baranji
Sahar Hojjati
Sahar Mofakham
Sahar Moradi
Saeed Pourheydar
Dr. Saeed Paivandi
Saeed Sedaghat
Saeed Azizi
Saeedeh Eslami
Saeedeh Yousefzadeh
Sakineh Shayanfar
Salamat Dashti
Soleiman Ramezani
Samaneh Abedini
Samaneh Moradiani
Samira Nazem
Samira Jamalieh
Somayeh Bahadori
Somayeh Rashidi
Somayeh Samadi
Somayeh Ghaffari
Somayeh Pourgholami
Eng. Sohrab Abedian
Sahand Adam-Aref
Eng. Sahand Sahandi
Sahand Safaroghlu
Sahand Mamani
Sahand Balkanlu
Soheila Sattari
Soheila Azizi
Soudabeh Ardavan
Soudabeh Ramezani
Sofia Sedighpour
Solmaz Elbey-Ghizi
Solmaz Aslanzadeh
Solmaz Dabbagh
Solmaz Fardi
Solmaz Moghaddam
Solmaz Khoyi
Solmaz Khodabandalou
Solmaz Kameli
Sona Farajzadeh
Sona Milani
Sona Ghazanchayi
Sonia Hazrati
Sonia Salimi
Siamak Khalkhali
Siamak Salehi
Siamak Koushi
Siamak Hokmabadi
Seyyed Ali Alavi
Seyyed Massoud Razavian
Cyrus Ebrahimnejad
Cyrus Fekri
Seif Hatemloui
Sima Hosseinzadeh
Sima Hosseini
Sima Didar
Sima Dadvar
Sima Baghban-Khatibi
Simin Baheri
Simin Tavakoli
Dr. Simin Sabri
Sina Bargoshadi
Sina Roustaei
Sevda Farajzadeh
Sevil Soleimani
Sevil Shiri
Sevil Mianji
Sevil Zonuzi
Sevim Aslanzadeh
Shahin Hassani
Shahin Ostajlu
Sharvim Haji-Mohammadi
Shohreh Sadri
Dr. Shakour Babazadeh
Shahab Sharifzad
Shahab Maleki
Shahram Rafizadeh
Shahrbanu Janalipour
Shahriar Hosseinkhah
Shahla Shafiq
Dr. Shahla Abghari
Eng. Shahla Alavitabar
Shahla Ansari
Shahnaz Pashaei
Shahnaz Sedaghatnia
Shahin Khaknegar
Shahin Amani
Sheida Akbarnejad
Sheida Alinejad
Shirindokht Daghighian
Shiva Badihinejad
Dr. Saber Nabioghlu
Saheb Boustani
Sadegh Heydari
Sadegh Kamali
Sabri Najafi
Dr. Sedigheh Edalati
Sedigheh Moghaddam
Sedigheh Imani
Eng. Samad Pourmousavi
Samad Shomali-Asl
Sayyad Dasi (Heydarli)
Sayyad Mohammadian
Dr. Zia Sadr al-Ashrafi
Taher Helmizadeh
Tahereh Zamanpour
Tala Ahmadi
Talat Taghinia
Aref Keskin
Atefeh Derafshan
Abbas Abdullah
Abdolhossein Nahidi-Azar
Abdollah Hamidi
Abdollah Hosseini
Eng. Abdollah Hamedy
Azra Azari
Azizeh Moharrami
Asha Momeni
Azim Tamjidi
Ali Afshari
Dr. Ali Al-Taie
Ali Orman
Ali Barazandeh
Dr. Ali Banuazizi
Ali Pezeshki
Ali Rezaei
Ali Soleimani
Ali Abdollahi
Ali Abdi
Ali Azimi
Ali Fotovati
Dr. Ali Garajehlu
Ali Ghanbari-Ghoushchi
Ali Mohammadi
Ali Mollazadeh
Ali Manafi-Azar
Dr. Ali Mirsepassi
Ali Nikouei
Dr. Ali Akbar Mahdi
Ali Akbar Khosrowshahi
Alireza Tabrizi
Alireza Khanbakhshi
Eng. Alireza Sarrafi
Alireza Farshi Yakanli
Alireza Ghazvini
Alireza Gholonju
Alireza Golzarnejad
Alireza Mahdavinia
Alireza Mosannan
Gharib Ashkari
Ghafour Mirzaei
Gholam-Reza Al-Ardabili
Gholam-Reza Zarei
Fakhteh Luna Zamani
Fatemeh Abolhassanlou
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
Fatemeh Khani
Fatemeh Masjedi
Fatemeh Moghaddam
Fatemeh Nasr
Fatemeh Nasirpour
Fatemeh Jafari
Fatemeh Nikkhah
Fakhri Shadfar
Farank Gholami
Faraj Liari
Farah Taheri
Farah Hosseini
Farahrouz Ranjbar
Farahnaz Mohammadi
Farrokh Bazzi
Farzad Karimzad
Farzaneh Ghorbani
Farzaneh Mohammadzadeh
Farzia Sabeti
Farshad Mohebbi
Fereshteh Nasirzadeh
Farnaz Shams
Farangiz Moradinejad
Farangis Moradi
Forough Samiinia
Fariba Davoudi-Mohajer
Fariba Valaei
Farid Ashkan
Farid Ghadami
Farideh Khazaei
Dr. Farideh Farhi
Farideh Moghaddam
Fereydoun Parviznia
Fekrat Sadegh
Fahimeh Bidkhori
Fahimeh Maleki
Firouz Shiri
Firouzeh Mohajer
Dr. Kazem Alamdari
Kameleh Moharrami
Kaveh Rezaei Shiraz
Kaveh Rezaei Shiraz
Kaveh Kermanshahi
Kaveh Mozaffari
Kobra Nouheh-Khan
Karim Urmulu
Clara Moradian
Golrokh Jahangiri
Golnaz Behkou
Gollar Shokouei
Gollar Bayburtlu
Golnara Khankishiyeva
Golina Hultqvist
Giti Pourfazel
Laleh Javanshir
Laleh Hosseinpour
Leila Ostajlu
Leila Asadi
Leila Sehat
Leila Mojtahedi
Maziar Lotfi
Mashallah Razmi
Mani Safarsoflaei
Maedeh Darvishi
Mojtaba Gholami
Majid Amiri
Majid Khosrowshahi
Mohsen Rafiei
Mohsen Kavousi
Mohsen Mosannan
Mohammad Azadgar
Mohammad Olfat
Mohammad Beheshti
Mohammad Pourhassan
Mohammad Tahouri
Mohammad Ghaznavian
Mohammad Mohammad-Taghizadeh
Mohammad Moghaddam
Mohammad Khatibi
Mohammad-Reza Aghapour
Mohammad-Reza Ardabili
Mohammad-Reza Al-Ardabili
Mohammad-Reza Lavaei
Mohammad-Reza Mokhtari
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavinia
Mahmoud Bilgin
Morad Soufizadeh
Morteza Choundari
Morteza Shahinnia
Morteza Norouzi
Morteza Hamedy
Marzieh Beheshti
Marzieh Soltan-Fam
Maryam Akbari
Dr. Maryam Ahari
Maryam Kheirkhah
Maryam Rahmani
Maryam Zarei
Maryam Zandi
Maryam Saeedi
Maryam Shokrzadeh
Maryam Toroghi
Maryam Ghaffari
Maryam Kaviani
Maryam Mohseni
Maryam Mahdavi
Mozhgan Servati
Mastaneh Shekarchi
Massoud Omid-Peyvandi
Massoud Alizadeh
Massoud Karimzad
Massoud Haray
Masih Agha-Mohammadi
Mostafa Dolatkhah
Eng. Mostafa Abedi
Masoumeh Zamani
Maliheh Azizpour
Maliheh Mohammadi
Dr. Manaf Sababi
Mansoureh Shojaei
Manouchehr Rasta
Manijeh Haji
Mehran Baharli
Dr. Mehrdad Mashayekhi
Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Mehri Memar-Hosseini
Mahsa Pashaei
Mahasti Ziaei
Mah-Lagha Naghipour
Mahin Safavi
Mousa Mousavi
Mowloud Alizadeh
Mitra Azarm
Dr. Misagh Parsa
Mina Safarsoflaei
Mihan Ghorayshi-Jazani
Nader Asadzadeh
Nader Baghiroghlu
Nadereh Azami
Nazli Shafei
Nazli Sadeghi
Nazli Mowlani
Nazi Azima
Nasser Baghiroghlu
Nasser Bakhtiari
Nasser Beheshti
Nasser Marghati
Nasser Marghati
Nasser Manzouri
Nahid Ebrahimzadeh
Nahid Jafari
Nahid Keshavarz
Nahid Mirhaj
Nahid Nazemi
Najmeh Zare
Najibeh Asadpour
Narges Kermanshahi
Nastaran Niazi
Nasrin Ahmadi
Nasrin Almasi
Nasrin Hajebi
Nasrin Nafei
Nosratollah Shahedi
Nasibeh Naderli
Nafiseh Nafiseh Azad
Naghi Mahmoudi
Negar Aslani
Negar Amiri
Negar Khiavi
Negar Bayat
Negar Garabaghi
Negin Vatani
Dr. Noureddin Gharavi
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
Noushin Jafarghizi
Navid Bahajab
Navid-Reza Hadavi Astarabadi
Navid Mohebbi
Dr. Nayereh Tohidi
Nayereh Tavakoli
Nikzad Zanganeh
Niloufar Deljavan
Nima Safarsoflaei
Nima Mashouf
Niousha Salehi
Hajar Kabiri
Hadi Amanzadeh
Hadi Tarfi
Hadi Garachay
Hashem Bilgin
Hayedeh Tabesh
Hedayat Soltanzadeh
Hedayatollah Aliyari
Homa Kaviani
Homa Moradinejad
Houm Bazzi
Vajieh Khoshbin
Vajiheh Alizadeh
Vajiheh Moghaddam
Vajiheh Fakour
Vahideh Ahmadian
Yasmin Hashdari
Yashar Aslanzadeh
Yashar Mohammadi
Yavar Khosrowshahi
Yadollah Kanaani (Naminli)
Yaghoub Hassani
Youroush Mehralibeyli
Yousef Azizi Bani-Torof
Younes Zareiyoun
Younes Shameli