Saudi Arabia akhirnya melepas ulama Iran yang ditahan kurang lebih sebulan dengan tuduhan palsu.
Ulama Iran, Hojatoleslam Mohammad
Garmab-Dashti ditahan ketika melaksanakan umroh di Saudi Arabia setelah
seorang wahabi menuduhnya meludahi kuburan Khalifa Islam Pertama
(Abubakar ra.) tuduhan yang ditolaknya sebagai kebohongan belaka.
“Mereka membawa saya ke seorang
hakim, saya bersumpah atas nama Allah SWT. bahwa saya sama sekali tidak
melakukan perbuatan yang mereka tuduhkan, saya katakan bahwa saksi hanya
ingin menciptakan permusuhan dan perselisihan diantara sesama muslim”
Hojatoleslam Mohammad Garmab-Dashti
ditahan sebulan dipenjara yang sangat kotor sekali. Tanpa lampu dan
tanpa jam, sehingga sangat sulit sekali baginya menentukan waktu untuk
shalat. “Sungguh situasi yang sangat sulit”. demikian kata Hojatoleslam.
“Para sipir tahanan mengatakan
bahwa saya telah menodai makam Khalifa Abubakar, mereka menghina saya
dan melontarkan kata-kata keji seperti anjing dan binatang. Mereka
memindahkan saya dari satu sel ke sel yang lain, mereka memaksa saya
untuk berjalan sepanjang satu kilometer dengan dibelunggu dan telanjang
kaki diatas aspal yang sangat panas sekali”.
Didepan pengadilan Ulama Iran
dengan tegas menolak semua tuduhan dan fitnahan, hal ini malah
mengakibatkan putusan pengadilan diperberat, dari satu bulan hukuman
menjadi tiga bulan penjara dan 75 cambukan.
Pembela hukum Ulama Iran, yang
ditunjuk Kedutaan Besar Iran meminta agar pengadilan
menghadirkan/melihat film kejadian hasil rekaman camera surviellance
yang ada ditempat kejadian sebagai bahan bukti, namun tidak dihiraukan
oleh pengadilan.
Hojatoleslam Mohammad Garmab-Dashti akhirnya dibebaskan setelah tekanan Kedutaan Besar Iran kepada kantor Gubernur Madina.
Hojatoleslam mengatakan bahwa saya
akan dibebaskan bersama beberapa tahanan Iran lainnya. Selajutnya ia
diberangkatkan ke Airpot Madina dan diterbangkan ke Jeddah dengan
pesawat kecil.
“Mereka tetap tidak menghargai saya
sampai dimenit terakhir melepaskan saya, mereka tetap tidak
mengembalikan barang-barang milik saya seperti telepon genggam yang
diambil ketika mereka menahanku”. demikian ditambahkan olehnya
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Saudi Kingdom releases Iranian cleric
SOURCE: PressTV
An Iranian cleric, detained in
Saudi Arabia on charges of religious sacrilege, has been released after
nearly one month in detention.
Hojatoleslam Mohammad Garmab-Dashti
was arrested during the minor Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca after a Wahabi
man accused him of “spiting on the grave” of the first Caliph.
“They shackled me to another man
and took me to a judge. I swore upon Allah that I had not committed the
act I was being accused of, and I told them that their witness only
sought to created discord among Muslims,” the cleric told the Qom
seminary news website.
He was eventually sentenced to one
month in an “extremely dirty” prison where “cockroaches got to the food
quicker” than the detainees.
The prison cell had “no light and
no clock … making it difficult for us to tell the prayer time, it was an
extremely difficult situation.”
“The prison guards had been told
that I had desecrated the grave of the first Caliph and they insulted me
and used words such as dog and animal, to transfer me from one part of
the prison to another they made me walk a one-kilometer distance on
scorching asphalt bear foot and in shackles,” Garmab-Dashti said of his
situation.
The cleric had made it clear to the
Saudi court that he does not accept the charges against him, a protest
which resulted in his sentence being increased to three months and 75
lashes.
The cleric’s lawyer, appointed by
the Iranian embassy and the office of the leader of the Islamic
Revolution in Saudi Arabia, had also asked the court to review footage
on surveillance camera on the premises. The request was ignored by the
court.
During his time in prison,
Garmab-Dashti had interacted with many Saudis who said they did not have
any belief in the ruling family.
“In the absence of elections, the
whole Kingdom, the prisoners said, was just another country ruled under a
system of succession,” he said.
The cleric was finally released after “the Iranian Embassy pressed the office of the governor of Medina on the issue.”
“It was decided that I would be released along with some other Iranian prisoners,” he said.
He was then transferred to the Medina airport and flown to Jeddah in a small aircraft.
“They were disrespectful up to the
last minute and did not return my personal belongings or my cellphone
which was taken upon my arrest,” he added.
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Garmabdashti: Unjustly imprisoned cleric
SOURCE: PressTV
The following is a rush transcript
of Press TV’s interview with Mohammad Garmabdashti, an Iranian cleric
who had been imprisoned by Saudi Arabia on false accusations.
I was leaving the Prophet’s mosque
when an Arab came toward me and claimed that he had seen with his own
eyes that I had insulted Abu Bakr, the first Caliph by spitting on his
grave. I said that I was only passing by the place and had not even cast
a look at it. I denied the allegation but the witness, who was
originally Syrian, swore upon Allah that I had committed such a thing.
Consequently, they took me away and
interrogated me but I insisted that I had not spitted and that the
witness was apparently telling lies. They however opened a file against
me and took me to a police station beside the mosque. After a few hours,
they transferred me to the central police station of Medina. I
categorically denied the accusation but they continued to ask me
numerous questions.
They shackled me to another man,
who was not an Iranian, and took me to a judge. I was there for one day.
They once again interrogated me. I swore upon Allah that I had not
committed the act I was being accused of, and I told them that their
witness only sought to create discord among Muslims.
The judge did not accept my statements and also refused to hear the testimony of four Iranian witnesses who accompanied me.
The court also refused to review
footage on surveillance camera on the premises, arguing that the
testimony of the Arab witness will suffice.
They kept me in a dirty detention
center with no light. After 13 days, I was taken to the court to hear
the sentence. They sentenced me to one month in prison and 75 lashes. I
was told to sign the ruling but I refused to accept the allegation and
the ruling of the judge.
After an hour, they took me to the
judge. The sentence was increased to three months and 75 lashes in
public but I once again rejected the allegation.
On May 11, I was transferred to a
quarantine to see the doctor and to be examined physically and
emotionally. They made me walk a one-kilometer distance on scorching
asphalt with bear foot and in shackles to get to the clinic.
They then took us to the prison,
where there were different prisoners from various Muslim countries.
Prisoners were not allowed to have visitors. There was no international
monitoring of the situation.
The prison guards had been told
that I had desecrated the grave of the first Caliph and they insulted me
and used words such as dog and animal
There were prisoners from different
ages there. I interacted with them and started talking to them. They
had no contact with their family. I sympathized with them, reassuring
that we will soon be released.
After spending 50 days in
detention, they told us that me and my three other friends would be
released but we had shackles on our feet. We were then transferred to
the Medina airport and flown to Jeddah in a small aircraft. With
shackles on our feet, we were then transferred to the Jeddah prison,
where I was kept for four days. They set us free on June 13. They
removed the shackles at the airport.
They took me to the plane in a bus
which was followed by a Patrol car. They left me after giving me my
passport when I was aboard the plane.
They didn’t believe us. They
accused and arrested us of various kinds of things. For instance, they
accused me of spitting on Abu Bakr’s tomb. They accused my friend of
spitting on Omar’s tomb. They also accused someone else of insulting Abu
Bakr and another one of hitting the Abu Bakr and Omar’s tombs with his
shoes. We never did any of these things. They bring some mercenary
witnesses to testify to arrest the Iranians.
They sentenced my friend, who was
accused of spiting on Omar’s tomb, to nine months in prison. He had no
lawyer as the sentence was definite. Many other Iranians are in prison
suffering emotionally from indetermination. They might stay there for
months or years.
They keep arresting the Iranians
under different pretexts on a daily basis. They do these things to
disunite Muslims. The Iranian government should do something to resolve
the issue as this problem is more severe for the Iranians than other
nationalities.
We suggest that the Iranian
pilgrims be sent there after the government is sure about the safety and
security of the place the Iranians are sent to.
Born in the village of Garmabdasht
in Guilan province in 1966, Garmabdashti is an Iranian cleric, teacher,
essayist and writer. He established himself as a religious researcher in
1991 and was named the best teacher in the country in 2000.
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