Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that human rights defender Mr Faleh Abdullah Al-Mansouri has been sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. Faleh Abdullah Al-Mansouri is head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Ahwaz and is also a human rights defender. He is originally from Iran but fled to the Netherlands as a refugee in 1998 and has since become a Dutch national. In the Netherlands he was an active member of human rights organisation Amnesty International.