NCRI – The Head of the Iranian regime’s Prisons Organization has announced the construction of a forced labour camp in Tehran in a bid to punish imprisoned drug addicts.
Gholamhosseini Esmaeili said “In case there is no shortages in funds, the construction will be finished in four months,” he said, the IRNA News Agency reported. He said that the Iranian regime has already opened two forced labour camps in Isfahan and Khorasan Razavi provinces.
Esmaeili said that the construction of such camps has been longed planned but “unfortunately because of existence of certain impasses in the country we could not obtain the required financial credits.”
“Construction of three labor camps in Tehran, Kerman and Sistan and Balouchestan provinces would cost 1.2 trillion rials ($35 million),” out of which 700 billion rials ($20 million) have been allocated during the previous administration.
The plan for construction of such camps was first announced on Monday, April 13, 2009 The chief of the Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (SSF), Brig. Gen. Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam. He then said that the clerical regime had planned to set up 11 forced labor camps.
Ahmadi Moghaddam said that the regime’s “penal code has been ineffective with respect to petty drug dealers,” which is why the mullahs’ “Judiciary and the Prisons Organization have put the establishment of forced labor camps on their agendas.”
“These individuals will not be trained in any way at these camps. Rather, they will be punished by being subjected to hard and intensive labor,” he said.