No Information About 2 Kidnapped Civilians Since 30 Months Ago

HRANA News Agency – Two civilians named Mohammad Reza Shariatpour and Safar Ali Jafari have been kidnapped since thirteen months ago by an armed group of the opposition in Balochestan.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Reza Shariat Pour, 28, and Safar Ali Jafari, 66, have been taken hostage by a group in Balochestan on 10th August 2014.

Amir Gargij, Mohammad Reza Shariatpour’s father in law, in connection with the abduction of these two, has mentioned; the place that they have been kidnaped was 80 kilometers away from Zahedan, and told HRANA’s reporter: “Mohammad Reza Shariatpour is a civil engineering student at the nonprofit University of “Hatef” and he was working in the mines as a driver based on a three months’ work agreement. He does not have any position or official posts.”

Shariatpour’s father in law with introducing the other abductee, Safar Ali Jafari, as a retired employee of the Department of Agriculture, mentioned he and Mohammad Reza Shahriatpour’s father will put all their efforts to free these two men and said: “I along with their fathers, even went outside the borders for them but we could do nothing.”

Gargij also announced that the company that his son in law and Safar Ali Jafari had been working in, is a large company of manganese ore and magnesium and said “the company is not affiliated with any institutions and organizations.”

According to Amir Gargij, kidnappers initially demanded one billion and two hundred million Tomans cash that has been reduced so far to six hundred million Tomans.

Regarding the possibility of collecting that money, Mohammad Reza Shariatpour’s Father in law told HRANA’s reporter: “His father is retired from the Department of Medical Sciences and I am retired from the air force. We had none in our ability to collect this money.”

On 24th August, the news agency, Al-Arabiya, said the group of “Baloch Human Rights Association” has announced the abduction of these two people. Al-Arabiya also publish images of their national ID cards and their photos and has declared that “Mullah Majid Al-Balushi” the official spokesman for the association, has introduced these two men as “ Oil exploration manager affiliated to Iranian Revolutionary Guards” and “Intelligence officer in Sistan-Baluchestan province”. This claim has been strongly denied by Amir Gargij, Mohammad Reza Shariatpour’s father in law.

Also Mullah Majid Al-Balushi, the spokesman for the “Baloch Human Rights Association” noting that “for security reasons, he cannot mention the name of the kidnappers now”, said the kidnappers demanded “freedom of Baluch and Sunni detainees from prisons in Iran.”

In this regard, Amir Gargij, one of the kidnapped father in law, has sent the following text to HRANA:
“Hello

Hello to all honorable people.

I am writing to those who are human rights defenders and to the persecuted Baloch people,

I am writing as perhaps a conscience wake up and a seeking for help,

I am writing after a year that burned our lives but we stayed silent and only complained to God,

I am holding my hands towards you who are defending the rights of Baloch people, hoping there is someone to help,

I am also a Baloch man,

I know a Baloch woman. A suffering Baloch woman who sold everything she had, perhaps to be able to release her detained husband, a woman like all other Baloch women, has artist’s hands and also is a seamstress who was ranked first several years ago at the National Olympiad in sewing skills in Iran and is the Honor for all of Baloch women and is a sample of this artists Baloch women society,

But, all of things that the artist hands of Sarah Gargij had made during those years were auctioned up to perhaps save Muhammad (her detained husband, who is kidnapped by Baloch groups).

Alas, even the wages of this suffering woman could not appease Baloch brothers,

Now, after a year and a half, her husband has been accused with being politician and put him in a game that has no end,

I take spotless God as my witness that Muhammad was just a plain worker,

My Baloch brothers! I am desperately asking you just for a moment reoffer to your conscience. Do not let the life of your Baloch sister and her son be destroyed by her Baloch brothers.”

It is worth recalling that relevant government institutions have not had any reactions or have done no attempts towards this event and after a long time of the abduction of these people, the issue is being still ignored.