Where are Iranian diplomats?

Kazem Akhavan  Iranian photo journalist was abducted with three Iranian diplomats Ahmed Motavasselian, Mohammad Moghadam and Mohsen Musavi

in June 1982.

 

They were taken by the Lebanese Forces, and have suspected that they were killed immediately after arrest! This is what the leader of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea told around 1990. However hope that they might still be alive was raised by the report of the Prisoners Friends Association, a Palestinian organization based in Nazareth, which claimed that the four Iranians had been seen alive in Atlit Prison in Israel in 1995.

 

 The Israeli Government denied the story, but Ahmed Habibullah, the Director of PFA, tells the fact that none of his letters to Israel have been answered makes him feel that the story is true.

 

24years of  cattivity and silence in the heart of the sivilized world claiming to defend human

rights

 

 

سمیر جعجع عامل ربایش چهار دیپلمات

 

Amnesty International Middle East Program Director, Elizabeth Hodgkin has been working on their cases and raised them, without success, several times to the Israeli Government being told by ministers that the hostages did not exist, even though other Israeli army spokespeople had admitted that they did exist. There was some positive reporting of the report in the Hebrew press urging Israeli Government to take active steps to clear up the fate of the 17,000 “disappeared”-extrajudicially executed or in secret prisons-during the armed conflict. The Knesset members who raised the cases of the Lebanese are Dedi Zucker, Abd al-Wahhab Darawshe and Azmi Beshara.

 If Kazem Akhavan and the tree diplomats were probably killed the same night they were captured! It would have been foolish for the LF to kill them, or we suppose that after they killed them they realized how foolish they had been and kept the matter dark. We will go on hopping until we get eyewitness account and see their bodies, and carry out a DNA test and we must go on testing every piece of evidence to see whether they are alive or dead.

 

This is a human story and the family needs simply at least to have evidence as to whether Kazem Akhavan is alive or dead. Kazem always talked about his readiness to die; it makes it feel better if he did die. However Amnesty International records shows that they received a letter of thanks from a Moroccan they worked for; released in 1991 after 18 years’ secret detention.