Dokument #1163134
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
The IRBDC cannot comment on the likelihood
of a person being arrested because of suspected association with
political opponents in Iran. However, both the Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices for 1988, (Washington: U.S.
Department of State, 1989), and Amnesty International, in Iran:
Violations of Human Rights, (London: Amnesty International,
1987) and its Amnesty Report 1989, (London: Amnesty
International, 1989), report the practice of arbitrary arrest of
persons suspected of political opposition activities. The latter
report also refers to cases in which relatives of suspects have
been arrested to pressure fugitives.
As stated in the above documents, the books
Iran under the Ayatollahs and Shi'ism, Resistance, and
Revolution [ Hiro, D.; Iran under the Ayatollahs,
(London/New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987); Shi'ism,
Resistance, and Revolution, (London: Mansell Publishing Ltd.,
1987); various references throughout the texts.], as well as other
sources, participation in armed political opposition is reported to
be tried in the Islamic Revolutionary Courts and subject to Capital
Punishment.