NCRI – Shocking new details have emerged of the barbaric treatment of prisoners across Iran, including forced confessions, denying prisoners urgent medical treatment and refusing phone calls and family visits.
Sources inside the regime have revealed dozens of examples of the abuse of the most basic human rights of inmates in six prisons in the country.
At Ward 360 of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, the mullahs’ henchmen summoned seven political prisoners in a bid to make them confess to their alleged crimes and beg for forgiveness – however the men refused the demand, it was reported.
At the same prison, Sadeq Honarvar Shojaie, a critic cleric, is said to be in a worsening physical condition after being moved out of the health clinic, despite suffering repeated recent heart problems and nervous attacks. And due to the lack of doctor or receiving treatment by specialists he was treated only with a painkiller and injected with sleeping drug.
Also at Evin, prison officials continue to refuse medical treatment to political prisoner Mehdi Khodaie, who has been jailed since 2009 without a single day of medical leave.
In the main prison in south-eastern city of Zahedan, exiled political prisoner Iraj Mohammadi is now reported to be in critical physical condition after being tortured in a secret detention center in western Azerbaijan province by the IRGC’s Ramadan 81 intelligence interrogators. He is suffering from dizziness, and falls repeatedly due to numbness of left side of his body.
The head of Zaheden prison is said to have told Mr Mohammadi that he was being refused medical treatment on the orders of Orumieh city prosecutor Mohammad Norouzi.
At city prison in Ardebil (north western Iran), Balouch political prisoner Ali Pajgol, 21 – transferred there from Zahedan in September – is serving 16 years for ‘acting against national security’. In the three months since arriving at Ardebil, he has been refused all phone calls or visits from his family.
At Karoon prison in south-western city of Ahwaz, 15 prisoners who have been sentenced to death have arrived from Gohardsht prison, possibly for execution, sources said.
Prison guards at western city of Kermanshah’s Dizel-Abad prison, which is within the city centre, are using prisoners to help build new prisons outside the town.
At Kermanshah Chesmeh-Sefid prison, Judge Nazeri has issued a directive stating that inmates jailed for less than ten years can no longer use the ‘open vote’ – a system by which a prisoners who have spent at least 3 years in prison gets three days leave. Now only prisoners who have spent more than 10 years behind bars get three days leave – and then only after completing three months of forced labor inside the prison.
At the Adel-Abad prison in sothern city of Shiraz, hunger strikers Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri have been forced to sign letters saying they are in good health condition and don’t need medical attention, despite suffering from severe weight loss and dizziness.
And at Gohardasht prison in Karaj, prison guards refused permission to political prisoners Kamran Rahimian and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi to be transferred from Gohardasht to Evin prisons to visit their families because the men refused to wear prison uniforms, sources reported.