Political prisoner Ayatollah Kazemeini Borujerdi
in Evin Prison
On Monday, February 1st political prisoner Ayatollah Kazemeini
Borujerdi sent a message from inside Evin Prison describing any participation
in Iran’s current sham elections as haram (forbidden) and called on the people
to boycott this event.
His message reads in part:
“I call on all Iranian Muslim men and women to not take part in the
selective and sham elections… and by peacefully refusing to obey any such
orders they should rise to their religious duties.”
Political prisoner Seyed Hossein Kazemeini Borujerdi a very well-known
cleric in Tehran and an opponent of the theory of the absolute rule of the
clergy and also against the involvement of religion in politics. He is a
support of the separation of the church and state and a return to the true
traditional religion.
Kazemeini Borujerdi was arrested in September 2006 under an arrest warrant
issued by the special clerics court in Iran, along with many of his supporters
after clashes with the police that lasted many hours. He was taken to prison
and sentenced to 11 years behind bars.
It is said that his father,
Seyed Mohammad Ali Kazemeini Borujerdi, was murdered by Iran’s security agents
back in 2002.
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