NCRI – Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezzi has issued a statement following the suspicious death of labor activist Shahrokh Zamani on Sunday in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, north-west of Iran’s capital Tehran. Mr. Moezzi, a supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), has constantly been under the most severe pressures and physical and psychological tortures in the Iranian regime’s prisons. The following is the text of his statement:
Warning on the suspicious and sudden death of political prisoner Shahrokh Zamani who gave his life for freedom
Execution, massacre, terrorizing, threatening and murdering dissidents of the tyrannical and criminal regime, whether officially or unofficially and publicly or secretly, continues unabated. In addition to the deaths caused by lack of medical treatment in prisons regarding the political prisoners in cases such as that of Messrs Mohsen Dogmechi and Hoda Saber, we have had in recent years, especially in the political prisoners’ ward in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) prison in Karaj, suspicious deaths such as those of Messrs Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, Mansour Radpour and Afshin Ossanlou.
This new case of sudden and suspicious death of labor activist and political prisoner Mr. Shahrokh Zamani on Sunday, September 13, occurred in the political prisoners’ ward of Gohardasht, Karaj. Since it is said that he had previously been threatened, this case has raised the concern of people and families of political prisoners regarding the threat to the lives of these prisoners.
I express my deep concern and express my sympathy with his family and I request an immediate investigation by an international fact-finding committee to look into this case and prevent similar occurrences.
Political prisoner Ali Moezzi – Karaj Central Prison – September 2015
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