Registered with the Post Office as a newspaper. Published by Relgocrest Ltd for Red Weekly, 97 Caledonian Road, London N.I. (temporary no: 01-278 9529) Two Iranian students face an immediate case last week.
a Spanish militant during a demonstration in London last September following the executions in Spain. The Spanish demons ator was acounted. out the ges which included assaulting the police and possession of an offensive weapon (a banner!).
BEATEN One of the two, Mohammad-Reza Poorian - who was so badly beaten by the police when he was supposed to have been assaulting them that he had to be taken to hospital - was sentenced to six months in prison. The other, Mahmoud Tourneh, was given a three months suspended sentence. Both were recommended for deportation, and the acor aton order is bene cons acred ai threat of deportation to Iran after a court The two were arrested together with two Iranians were found 'guilty' on charthreat a further court hearing on 22 April.
Neither has a valid passport - and the Iranian Embassy is unlikelv to re new them. If deported, they would as a result nave senous circuity in mading a country which would accept them as political refugees; their deportation could effectively mean handing them over to the Iranian secret police, SAVAK. In Iran they would face long term imprisonment and torture because of their political activities and thei membership of the Confederation of illegal under reactionary Iranian laws.
The harsh treatment of these two Iranians once again shows the disgusting support given by the British authorities to the Shah's barbaric regime. Having failed to use the conspiracy laws against the Iranian 21 earlier this year, they are now trying to please the Shah - and thus safeguard British business contracts - by taking revenge on these two Iranian THOUSANDS What is at stake is not simply the fate of these two students, serious as that is but aiso we unreat or deportation nangans over thousands of other politically active foreign nationals whom Home Secretary Jenkins, using the reactionary Immigration Act of 1971, can deport if he finds menues Die Iranian students are launching a campaign to prevent the deportations. They need your immediate support. Only strong pressure on the Home Office will prevent the deportations. Raise this issue in your trade union, student union, etc. and get protests sent to une home sec retary demanding that the two Iranians should not be deported.