Jerusalem Post - Sounding the Alarm on Iran’s Human Rights Violations

By Irwin Colter & Mark Kirk, JPost.com

In the run-up to the Iranian presidential election, Canadian parliamentarians and their American counterparts have been focusing attention on the Tehran government, sounding the alarm on massive domestic repression and the Iranian nuclear and terrorist threat to international peace and security. . . .

We will also be advocating on behalf of Pastor Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-born US citizen who converted to Christianity as a teenager. During a visit to Iran last September to see his family and build an orphanage in the city of Rasht, he was arrested for undermining national security through Christian evangelical activities and sentenced to eight years in prison. He has been denied medical treatment for several serious health problems – including internal bleeding due to abuse in prison.

Earlier this month, Abedini was placed in solitary confinement for one week where he spent his 33rd birthday. While he was in what the American Center for Law and Justice has called “a small, dark hole,” more than 50,000 birthday messages were sent to his prison. Pastor Saeed has a wife and two young children. . . .

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