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IRAN: Political prisoner sentenced to one year of solitary confinement instead of being released

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Iranian regime Judiciary condemned political prisoner Mr. Ali Moezzi to one year of additional incommunicado imprisonment at the end of his 5-year sentence. Mr. Moezzi who just had a week remaining of his sentence was transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hessar Prison on May 28 as new fabricated charges were brought against him. In protest to Iranian regime’s sham and illegitimate courts, Mr. Moezzi has persistently refused to attend them. On May 4, a group of henchmen took him to a court in Karaj while his hands and legs were in shackles, he was battered and had a cut in his forehead.

The new sentence against Mr. Moezzi was issued while his lawyer was refused access to his file and was prevented from defending him; Mr. Moezzi refused to sign the verdict.

Henchmen have repeatedly threatened him who is the father of two People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) members in Camp Liberty that “we shall ultimately torment you to death in prison and you should not leave the prison alive”.

In addition to suffering from cancer, Ali Moezzi, a political prisoner of the 1980s, has developed many illnesses, including acute renal problem and obstruction of the intestine, due to his years of tolerating imprisonment and torture. He was arrested for a second time in 2009 for visiting his two children in Camp Ashraf and condemned to five years in prison. In June 2011, he was arrested for a third time for attending the memorial ceremony of PMOI member Mohsen Dogmechi who was tormented to death in prison as he was deprived of medical treatment. Mr. Ali Moezzi has always been under the harshest pressures and physical and psychological tortures. His brother Mr. Mohammad Moezzi was executed in 1981 for his support for the PMOI.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 31, 2015