Oct. 10, 2010
According to reports, prisoner Reza Jalal Shariat who has been transferred to a solitary cell in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison known as the ‘doghouse’ is in serious danger.
On Friday at about 8:30 pm, a prison guard who is also a torturer in the ‘doghouse’ attacked Reza Jalal Shariat and violently beat him…
After other prisoners clashed with the guards (in his defense), the internal manager of prison, Gerami, asked that prisoners hand over Shariat to them but prisoners in cellblock 1 refused the order. Gerami then threated the prisoners that they would bring the prison guards to beat them.
Shariat voluntarily gave himself up to prevent guards from beating his inmates. A few moments later Jalal Shariat was taken to a solitary cell in cellblock 1 and other prisoners could hear his sobbing and cries as a result of the brutal tortures.
In addition to Gerami, Kermani and Faraji the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Department were also present for his torture. Head guard Mirza Aqayi and Zinali who are known torturers in this cellblock also participated in the torture.
This prisoner is in serious danger of death.
Mirza Aqayi and Zinali are in charge of torture in solitary cells in cellblock 1. These men use various torture methods such as rape, sodomy with batons, breaking the hands and legs of prisoners and other forms of torture.
Shariat, 25, is in prison on charges of murder. He is respected by other prisoners because he stands up to the guards and always expresses his protest which has angered prison guards.
Wife of death row political prisoner threatened and harassed by security forces
Oct. 10, 2010
According to reports, threats against Mahin Saremi via telephone calls by Salavati, the so-called judge of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court are ongoing.
Mahin Saremi was summoned and tried in the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court by Salavati. She was told that the sentence would be announced to her lawyer but after a while Salavati’s assistance called Mrs. Saremi and told her to come to court to receive her sentence. Saremi refused to go and said that the sentence has to be announced to her lawyer…
Threats continued against Saremi and her guarantor was also called several times and told that he had to hand over Mrs. Saremi to court and if he does not the bail that was submitted to court for her release would be seized and he would be arrested.
Due to the fact that the legal procedures, charges, trials and sentences for political prisoners are against the law and a clear violation of the minimum rights of political prisoners, interrogators of the Intelligence Agency and Salavati who carries out the whims of the Intelligence Agency avoid giving an official written verdict to the lawyers of political prisoners and political prisoner for fear that their illegal methods would be disclosed. This inhumane method has turned into a common routine. Lawyers and political prisoners are not allowed to keep a copy of the file and the verdict is not even given to the lawyer so that he/she could at least request for an appeal in the court of view. On the other hand, the court of appeal and Supreme Court say that they cannot see to the case without a written verdict…
Mahin Saremi, 56, was a political prisoner in the 80’s and was jailed from 1982 to 1983. She was also once again arrested in 2005 along with her husband Ali Saremi after an attack by agents of the Intelligence Ministry for participating in a ceremony to commemorate the memory of Doctor Mohammad Mosadeq on the anniversary of his death. They were jailed in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for close to a month. She was also arrested in 2007 for participating in the 19th ceremony of the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoner in 1988 and was imprisoned for 2 months in a solitary cell in Evin Prison’s cellblock 209.
Kurd political prisoner on death row in Orumieh PrisonOct. 10, 2010
Jailed political prisoner Hossein Khezri, 28, who is in the Central Orumieh Prison, has been sentenced to death on charges of ‘waging war with God’ and his sentence has been confirmed by officials. This political prisoner is under hard conditions in Orumieh Prison and his death sentence might be carried out at any moment.
One of his relatives said in an interview: “The death sentence was issued for Hossein after he was in solitary cell for seven months and after he was transferred to the Orumieh Prison in 2008. He was tried in a 7 to 8 minute trial with the presence of the representative of the prosecutor and the representative of the Intelligence Agency in the first branch of the Revolutionary Court, which was his first and last court session.
His lawyer was present with him in court but neither him nor his lawyer were allowed to defend his case. A few days before the trial, his lawyer was threatened by unidentified men who demanded to know with ‘what right he was defending an anti-revolutionary’.
Hossein was arrested in 2008 by the Nabi Akram Revolutionary Guards Corps base in the Kermanshah Terminal. He was transferred to a detention center in a military base from the very beginning without being informed of why he was arrested and was brutally tortured to the point of losing conscious several times.
He was kept in that detention center for 49 days. In this time he was taken with chained hands and feet down the stairs to the cellar and would be hanged from the roof while shackled.
They would close his mouth and nose with a cloth and he had to move his leg if he wanted to talk. He was tortured in this way many times. He was also electrocuted and beaten with batons and lost 30 percent of his vision, developed bleeding in his kidneys because of the brutal strikes and kicks and punches and also suffered a lung infection as a result of the unsuitable prison conditions and he is still suffering from this disease but officials refuse to treat him.
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
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