Iranian asylum-seeker on death strike to protest UN

Ali Ramazani, who fled into Turkey when he was sentenced to death for his political crime four years ago, started an open-ended death strike to take asylum right in a third country. "Thousands of people were sentenced to death when they dared oppose the regime and due to their political crimes," told Ramazi during his death strike before UN law office in Turkish southeastern city of Hakkari. "I was tortured for political crimes for months. The regime sentenced me death penalty although I was released after
a long period of tortument," Ramazani blasted on United Nations as showing some physical evidence of torture on his body. "United Nations has pledged that they will help me in meeting to my family but they just sent me a statement which announced me as innocent," claimed Ramazani saying he and his family were living apart since 19 months.