Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation, Home Office, London - pictures



The day before her deportation takes place, supporters of Bita Ghaedi gather in London to object to her forced removal to Iran. Bita is an Iranian woman who has been living in the UK and campaigning against chronic human rights abuses committed in Iran during recent Pro-Democracy protests.

Bita a supporter of the PMOI, once again under suppressive measures this time in the UK!!!

Bita Will Be Executed If?

The day before her deportation takes place, supporters of Bita Ghaedi gather in London to object to her forced removal to Iran. Bita is an Iranian woman who has been living in the UK and campaigning against chronic human rights abuses committed in Iran during recent Pro-Democracy protests.

On 15th April, Bita was forcibly removed from her home by UK Border Agency staff and police and was taken to Yarls Wood Detention Centre to await her removal. Bita fled domestic violence in her native Iran and left her country and an abusive marriage in 2007.

She has been peacefully campaigning alongside the PMOI (Peoples Mujahedin Organisation of Iran) in London most notably against the severe human rights abuses committed by proxy agents of Iran operating in Iraq around the Iranian enclave at Camp Ashraf.

In 2009, eleven people were killed by Iraqi security forces after they attacked the camp. The campaign against almost 3000 PMOI at the camp continues.

To date, members of the PMOI continue to be attacked and hunted down by the Mollah regime of Iran and a number have been executed and sentenced to long periods of imprisonment.

The protest takes place outside the British Home Office in London. Bita remains at severe risk not only from the Iranian religious regime, but from male members of her estranged family.

As the day wears on campaigners hear that a British court has refused a fresh claim for asylum stating they are not convinced that her life is in danger, thereby confirming that Government guidance on matters of politics in the Middle East is indeed, hopelessly inadequate.

Bita is scheduled to be deported on Flight BD931 tomorrow 20th April 2010 to Imam Khomeini Airport, Tehran at 7pm. This flight flies out of Heathrow airport terminal 3 every evening.

Carriers are Virgin Atlantic Airways and Air Canada.
London, UK. 19/04/2010


Back ground through Indymedia



At 7am,on 16th April 2010, nine police and UK Border agency officers broke into Bita Ghaedi's home and forcibly arrested her. She has been removed to the infamous Yarls Wood detention centre and has been scheduled to be removed to Iran on 20th April 2010. If this removal is successful, the British Government will have condemned this woman to certain death


She has been removed to the infamous Yarls Wood detention centre and has been scheduled to be removed to Iran on 20th April 2010. If this removal is successful, the British Government will have condemned this woman to certain death. She is a member of the British PMOI (Peoples Mojehadin of Iran) aka the NCRI (National Council for the Resistance of Iran).


She has been campaigning on behalf of the PMOI to bring attention to political prisoners and execution victims in Iran during the recent pro-democracy unrest. The Iranian regime are currently engaged in the violent hunting down of PMOI within the domestic Iran. In just the last week, the NCRI have reported that 15 prisoners have been hanged in four days in two cities in Iran. Three prisoners were hanged in public in Babolsar on Wednesday, another man, Adnan Albuali, 28, was hanged during a public execution in Mahshar on Tuesday.



The General Prosecutor of Mahshahr has been quoted as saying that a prisoner was sentenced to amputation of his arm and leg which was carried out while he languishd in prison. He was accused of taking part in an armed robbery. The man was then executed. On April 8th, eleven other prisoners were hanged in Mashhad, Taybad and Esfahan according to Iranian security services operating as media (Mehr news agency).


A number of these victims have been involved in pro-democracy protests in previous weeks and months. In a statement issued by the NCRI earlier this week, the regime has “resorted to public executions in a bid to intensify the atmosphere of fear and intimidation to prevent [further] people's protests”. It is clear that the Iranian regime are deliberately contriving confusion between domestic law and order and protecting its political interests.



According to Amnesty International: “There was a noticeable surge in the rate of executions at the time of mass protests over last year’s disputed Presidential elections. Although many of the executions were for criminal offences committed before the unrest, they sent a chilling message to those involved in protests.” “One hundred and twelve people were put to death in the eight weeks between the June election and the re-inauguration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in early August- almost a third of the total for the entire year.”


“The continuing surge in executions at a time when Iran has experienced the most widespread popular unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, combined with numerous statements by officials threatening protesters with execution, indicates that the Iranian authorities are again using the death penalty to try and cow the opposition and silence dissent ”


In January the PMOI released a statement linking the current spate of executions in Iran directly to its supporters and the pro-Democracy protests when it ran a report issued by the IRNA security services news agency. It said: “Abbas Jaafari Dowlat Abadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor, announced today that the cases of five individuals accused of Moharebeh [waging war on God] have been referred to the Revolutionary Court. He claimed that these individuals were members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and accused them of “organizing the crimes committed on the day of Ashura” and “attempting effectively to break the structure [of the regime] on that day”.


While many of us here in the UK may find the prospect of the Iranian regime and the Mojahedin a little distasteful, Bita is a very gentle woman and has always sought a democratic and peaceful form of campaigning more in tune with how we do things in the UK than Iran. She has been in this country for a number of years and has been supported throughout that time by a number of experienced, long term activists in London.



Bita's partner Mohsen said this morning in a telephone conversation that he believes that the Iranian regime will hold Bita hostage for a time in order to put pressure on him to return to Iran as two PMOI members operating in the UK will be highly prized political capital within Iran itself. He said “any contact with the Mojahedin is a sentence of death...there is no hope for us now”. Mohsen has already experienced life at the hands of the Iranian regime. He spent 12 years in prison as a political prisoner.


If he returns, he too will be executed. While Britain goes through the throws of a General Election, it is now clear that the current UK Border Agency feel it has nothing to lose by wrapping up outstanding business before the Labour Government are thrown into opposition. At the moment, it is expected that a number of Yarls Wood detainees may be 'politically removed'. In Iran, the British General Election is being watched closely. Earlier this morning, Camp Ashraf was again attacked by covert Iranian security forces operating inside Iraq.


Five people were injured as the Iranian security services attempted to seize five women from inside the Camp itself. It is certain that the women were to be removed to Iran in order to allow the Iranian regime to announce to the domestic population that further PMOI executions would be following


Further reading on the subject through Indymedia







The PMOI and Iranian Pro-Democracy Movement http://www.mojahedin.com/pagesEn/detailsNews.aspx?newsid=6872

Bita and the PMOI (IM interview, circa 5th February 2010) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/445707.html

Bita in Downing Street (IM report circa 4th February 2010) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/445677.html

Petition to the Home Office which has been completely ignored http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/33778.html
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