Call for immediate fundraising for Jamal Saberi!

We thank all of you who helped to save Jamal from the danger of being deported to Iran and getting him out of detention in Japan. However, we wanted to inform you that Jamal urgently needs financial support.

When the Free Jamal Campaign was first informed about Jamal’s situation we contacted friends and supporters and were able to send Jamal some funds. Due to his immigration status Jamal is not allowed to work in Japan - this means he needs regular monthly financial support for his living expenses and also to be able to take legal action to get asylum in Japan or a safe 3^rd country.

Thus we are calling on you good people and progressive organisations who have helped us in the campaign so far to support Jamal financially.

You can send your donations to IFIR branches or donate via paypal to

Count me in - Iran http://countmein-iran.com/donate.html

Please specifiy in all cases that the donation is for Jamal Saberi. Please also drop us a quick line at freejamalcampaign@gmail.com to let us know that you have made a donation.

Jamal very much welcomes your continued support!

Warm wishes

Free Jamal Campaign

IFIR contact:

www.ifrs.se

www.hambastegi.org

Tel.: 004631-453346

Plusgiro 200974-4

asadiabe@yahoo.se

Tel: 0046-73 717 88 19

Majid_hamidian@yahoo.se

Tel: 0046-739096603

Box 11103

404 23 Göteborg Sweden

Orgnr: 802400-9216

Adress: Linnegatan21

(Hagabion-ViktoriahusetA)

Jamal - 10 years in legal limbo leave Iranian with mental, physical scars

See Jamal's interview and video in the Japan Times by Simon Scott. Jamal is still fighting to be accepted as an asylum seeker in Japan after 20 years of living there.
Read the interview here

Watch his interview

Jamal is free!

After months of an international struggle we can finally declare that Jamal Saberi has been released form detention in Japan today!

The first phase of the Free Jamal! Campaign - to prevent the deportation of Jamal to the Islamic Republic of Iran and to get him released from the horrible detention centre - ends successfully. Now we are focussing on getting Jamal refugee status and permanent residency.

This success would not have been possible without your help! Jamal’s friends in Japan, the Railway Workers Union in Japan, organisations such as "Mission Free Iran" and thousands around the world who helped us in this campaign – you all share this victory and our success. Congratulations to all of you! We also thank our members and officers of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees worldwide and the Worker-Communist Party Abroad Organisation who stood repeatedly outside Japanese embassies and consulates in various countries and who were negotiating with Japanese officials.

We have always considered ourselves part of a global effort to free all refugees who are in detention and denied their rights by governments such as Japan. This success of freeing Jamal is the base from which we continue the advanced and extensive task to realise the rights of refugees everywhere.

International Federation of Iranian Refugees
4 August 2010

Iranian-Canadian Centre in Canada supports Jamal

Farideh Bozorg, the president of the Iranian-Canadian Centre in Victoria, Canada has written to the Japanese consulate in Vancouver in support of Jamal's release from detention and to grant him refugee status.
(Please click on the letter to open in a more readable format)