Tuesday, 11 August 2015

The #FreeMojgan Campaign calls for the release of Mojgan Shamsalipoor


Following the abrupt and forcible transfer of asylum seeker detainee Mojgan Shamsalipoor from the detention centre in Brisbane to Darwin her outraged Yeronga High school students staff and community rallied in protest in Brisbane on the same day and will rally again on friday 14th with a further #FreeMojgan support rally in Sydney.  
 21 year old Mojgan Shamsalipoor is a recently married year 12 Yeronga Queensland High School student who has lived in the Brisbane community for two years following her harrowing escape from repeated torture rape and the threat of forced marriage to a much older man. Incredibly and despite Iran's widely known disregard for Human and Womens rights the Abbott government's Borders Protection department in its infinite faux wisdom saw fit to deny her the asylum she sought and now seeks to return Mojgan to her tormentors. Under Iranian law she faces almost certain death in addition to the terrifying prospect of further rape and torture.


 Sydney Rally organisers and participants are outraged and demand that Mojgan and all other asylum seekers be immediately released from the jails in which they sit having never committed a crime. 

 Our thoughts and support are with Mojgan and her husband Milad and those close to them for whom this act of calculated government terrorism has had a devastating impact. Our thoughts and support go out to the teachers staff community and children of Yeronga State High and we stand in admiration that you have stood with this dear member of your community. 

Lanz Priestley from Occupy Sydney who are helping to organise in Sydney said " There is now bipartisan agreement between the Coalition and Labor that ideology not law should drive Australian policy and that policy contravenes every moral ethical and legal standard humans should adhere to. Those who voted for the current laws should be charged with retrospectively made laws by a future government and held in under the conditions they visited upon
asylum seekers with the same legal recourse-and those who enacted these laws from the highest office to the cleaners should contemplate that the Nuremberg defence was found to be no defence at all."  
"It is now clear that Asylum Seekers are being denied a just process to determine their refugee status. The system is now dedicated to denying applicants the justice afforded by signatories to the UN Convention on Refugees. The Prime Minister has made it clear the he is no longer prepared to be constrained by the rule of law on a number of policy issues. We cannot stand by silently and allow human rights to be denied the most vulnerable without  abandoning everything we value in a civil society."said Father Rod Bower of Gosford Anglican Church


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