Request for urgent action to save the life of political prisoner Ali Saremi, Supporter of PMOI who has spent more than 23 years of his life in prison

Request for urgent action
Request for urgent action to save the life of political prisoner Ali Saremi,
Supporter of PMOI who has spent more than 23 years of his life in prison

Transferring death row political prisoner to an unknown location
Monday Dec. 27, 2010 – 15:53
Reports obtained by Activists of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran say that the political prisoner Ali Saremi, 62 years old and condemned to execution has been transferred from ward two of Gohardasht Prison to an unknown location outside the prison.

On Monday Dec. 27 around 13:30 pm political prisoner Ali Saremi under execution has suddenly and in an unusual manner been transferred from ward two to an unknown location. His cellmates have constantly tried to get information about his whereabouts from prison’s officials but they were not successful so far and were faced with contradictory sayings.
Some officials have told them that he has been transferred to Evin Prison but his cellmates are suspicious of this saying because of the manner he was transferred and the contradictory words. They think that it is possible that he has been transferred to be executed; executions are usually conducted on Tuesdays.
In fear of international reactions and to make people of Iran and the world face a done did the clerical regime uses sudden executions of political prisoners such as the execution of 5 political prisoners on Sep. 10 of this year.

In addition to Mr. Ali Saremi a number of political prisoners at ward 350 of Evin Prison are awaiting execution. The names of some of them are: Jafar Kazemi, Javad Lari, Abdoreza Ghanbari, Haj Aghaie and Ahmad Daneshpoor Moghadam.

Political prisoner Ali Saremi was arrested in 2007 after he attended the ceremony for commemoration of the 19th year of massacre of political prisoners in 1988 and was condemned to death by Judge Salavati. He is one of the oldest political prisoners in Iran who had spent more than 23 years in prison.

Activists of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran are strongly worried about this sudden and unusual transferring. There is a serious danger that he will be executed.

We ask the General Secretary of UN, High Commissioner of Human Rights and other international organs to conduct an urgent action for saving the lives of death row political prisoners in Iran.

Activists of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
December 27, 2010


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)