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----- Original Message -----
From: <green@iran-e-sabz.org>
To: <Green Party of Iran - Mailing List:>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:06 PM


> Arrests, Mistreatment, and Interrogation of Iranians in the United States
>
> After the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the US set a deadline
> for citizens of few countries including Iran to be photographed and
> fingerprinted, many of respondents were arrested and mistreated by
> authorities.
>
> According to the reports, many Iranian respondents to the call by INS had
a
> "still pending" status and would not be considered illegal at the time of
> arrest. The victims' families say their beloved were kept in hunger and
> denied drinking water for couple of days while there was a lack of minimum
> human condition for living. In some cases, they spent all night long
> standing, because of lack of space in the room of 50 or 100 to be seated.
> As of December 17, 2002, many Iranians still are in various detention
> centers and prisons throughout the states. Some compare the recent move by
> the Bush Administration against Iranian citizens to the rounding up of
> Japanese into the concentration camp in the World War II.
>
> A demonstration is scheduled for December 18, 2002 at 3:00 PM in front of
> the Federal Building in Los Angeles to protest the recent wave of pressure
> on Iranian immigrants and refugees, who were subjected of mistreatment and
> abuse in their original country by the Islamic regime. These acts of
> hostilities towards Iranian immigrants and refugees by US federal
> authorities only satisfy the Mullah's regime in Iran that has forced
> millions of Iranians to migrate from their homeland during the past 25
years.
>
> Green Party of Iran
> December 17, 2002
> http://www.iran-e-sabz.org/eindex.html

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