Lettera inviata il 9/12/2015 al prossimo Capo del Consiglio per i Diritti Umani all'ONU : FAISAL BIN HASSAN TRAD, presso OHCHR, Palais des Nations - Genève, Suisse FREEDOM for ASHRAF FAYADH and ALI MOHAMMD AL-NIMR Milan-Italy, 4 december 2015 When some news reach us, sadness and helplessness appear to cancel our ability to act. We think about it and, suddenly, we realize that sharing with other people in this world is a formidable weapon against injustice. Saudi Arabia, a rich country, whose Ambassador Faisal bin Hassan Trad has just been elected head of the UN Human Rights Council in 2016, is in fact one of the few countries in the world which has never signed the Universal Declaration of human rights. And Faisal bin Hassan Trad must then defend on behalf of the UN victims of abuse and violence! In Saudi Arabia, today, people are sentenced to death for their ideas. Not murderers but poets or young people who have expressed their dissent against the government of their country. I refer in particular to the poet ASHRAF FAYADH and to the young ALI MOHAMMD AL-NIMR whose history is told in the Huffington Post. ASHRAF FAYADH, poet, curator and artist, was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia, where he was born from Palestinian parents. He is charged with promoting atheism with his poetic texts included in the anthology "Instructions Within" (2008), to have had illicit relations, to have been disrespectful to the Prophet Muhammad and of having threatened the Saudi morality. The ruling was issued on November 17 and it is forecasted than Fayadh may submit a request for appeal within thirty days, then within On 17 December. Fayadh, 35 years old, is the representative of the british-saudite organization “Edge of Arabia”. In 2013 he was one of the curators of the exhibition Rhizoma at the Venice Biennale. He was arrested in January 2014 and in May of that year he was sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by a court in Abha, in the southwest of Arabia Saudita. After that, his first application was rejected, a new court has sentenced him to death. Mona Kareem, poet and activist for the rights of migrants who have launched a campaign for the release of Fayadh, told the "Guardian" that the poet can not ask a lawyer to defend him because since his arrest he has no more identity documents. According to Kareem, Fayadh is the victim of discrimination because of Palestinian origin. During the hearings the poet said to be a Muslim and has rejected the accusations. Here's one of his poems: “Asylum: Standing in line at the row. Get a bite of bread. Resist! Something that your grandfather used to do. Without knowing the reason. The bite? You. The home: A document to be put in the portfolio. Money: Paper with above pictures of leaders Picture: Your substitute upon your return. And your rturn: mythological creature ... output from the stories of your grandmother. End of the first lesson.” ( Ashraf Fayad ) Do you remember the song of De Andre' "Dying for ideas"? And the poetry of Federico G. Lorca entitled "CAPTIVE"? We should read them again. Today, 4th of December , 210.376 people have signed the international petition for the release of Ashraf Fayadh and 379.800 for the release of Ali Mohammd al-Nimr. Also on the website of Amnesty International you can find a petition in support of it. I invite you to sign it. My firm hope is these thousands of entries will reach the representatives of the Government of Saudi Arabia; that’s to say the King and Prime Minister: Salman Al Saud / the Minister of Justice: Walid Al-Samaani / the President of the Human Rights Commission Bandar al-Alban / the Head of the UN Human Rights Council: Faisal bin Hassan Trad. And also that they may reach the representatives of the Italian Government, so that they can do the possible and the impossible to rid ASHRAF FAYADH and ALI MOHHAMD AL-NIMR. Thank you all and, finally, I would like to read with you this thought, taken from the movie "The Interpreter": "The gunfires around us keep us from hearing, but the human voice is different from other sounds and it can be heard above the noises that bury it , even when it’s not crying, even if it's just a whisper. The slightest whisper can be heard over armies when telling the truth.” Thank you for your attention. All my regards. Alberto Scrinzi, Milan .-Italy e-mail: bobi57@libero.it