Beating of Mohammad and Mehdi Khodakarami in Khorramabad, the Critical Health Condition of Ebrahim Sedighi in Urmia, and the Shackling of Kamran Rezaeifar After Surgery in the Hospital
On March 4, 2025, the executioners of Khamenei suddenly transferred two imprisoned brothers, Mohammad and Mehdi Khodakarami, who are political prisoners supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), from Parsilon Prison in Khorramabad to quarantine in Khorramabad Central Prison. Under the orders of the prison warden, Homayoun Golabetoun, and in collaboration with prison officials Seyed Norouzi (internal prison manager), Ashkan Rahmati (ward counselor), Rashidi (head of prison security), Naderi, Jamshidi, Saeed Derikvand, and Davoudi (prison guards), these two prisoners were severely beaten with clubs, batons, and whips. To further humiliate them, their mustaches were shaved off, and they were thrown into a cage.
In protest against this brutality by Khamenei’s executioners, Mohammad and Mehdi Khodakarami have gone on a hunger strike.
Mohammad Khodakarami, 32 years old, and Mehdi Khodakarami, 42 years old, were arrested in March 2023 in Tehran and were subjected to severe torture in Evin Prison. They were sentenced to 8 years and 4 years in prison, respectively, on charges of “membership in the Mojahedin” and “gathering and conspiring to commit crimes against national security.”
On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Khamenei’s executioners committed another inhumane act by shackling the hands and feet of political prisoner Kamran Rezaeifar to his hospital bed after he had undergone major stomach surgery at Taleghani Hospital in Tehran. Shortly afterward, despite his severely weakened condition and his need for medical care, he was transferred back to Ward 4 of Evin Prison.
Kamran had been suffering from a stomach illness since early November 2024, but due to the authorities’ refusal to transfer him to a hospital, his condition worsened, ultimately necessitating surgery.
Kamran Rezaeifar, 59 years old, was arrested in September 2023 and in November 2023, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison by Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by the notorious judge Iman Afshari, on charges of collaboration and communication with the PMOI.
In yet another criminal act, last week, political prisoner Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi, 66 years old, who has severe diabetes and has been imprisoned in various prisons for seven years, was transferred from Khoy Prison to Urmia Prison. Despite the critical state of his illness, he is currently forced to sleep on the floor.
Ebrahim Sedighi is experiencing serious health deterioration due to a lack of insulin and necessary medications, which has led to an increase in infections in his legs. The severity of his diabetes has already resulted in the amputation of three toes. He is in extremely critical condition and urgently needs immediate medical attention.
Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi was arrested in March 2019 in Urmia and was sentenced by the clerical regime’s Revolutionary Court to 19 years in prison and a fine of 250 million tomans on charges of “membership in the PMOI and propaganda against the regime” and “filming military centers.”
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and all international human rights organizations to condemn the brutal treatment of political prisoners and to take urgent action for the release of all political prisoners, especially those in critical health conditions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
14 March 2025