{"id":337759,"date":"2025-10-01T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337759"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:52:17","slug":"iranian-political-prisoner-mehdi-vafaei-sani-forcibly-transferred-from-evin-prison-to-an-unknown-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iranian-political-prisoner-mehdi-vafaei-sani-forcibly-transferred-from-evin-prison-to-an-unknown-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Political Prisoner Mehdi Vafaei Sani Forcibly Transferred from Evin Prison to an Unknown Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218888 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NCRI-50.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, political prisoner <a href=\"https:\/\/en.iranhrs.org\/mehdi-vafai-sani-denied-access-to-treatment-in-evin-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mehdi Vafaei Sani<\/a>, 37 years old and held in Ward 7 of Evin Prison, was summoned under the pretext of a family visit. However, before reaching the visitation hall, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence forced him into a vehicle and took him to an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mehdi was arrested on June 8, 2022, in Parand, Tehran, and transferred to Evin Prison. He was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of \u201cpropaganda against the regime\u201d and \u201cassembly and collusion\u201d due to his connection with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK). During the Evin Prison fire on October 15, 2022, he was shot by regime agents and injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mehdi\u2019s mother, Mrs. Shiva Esmaeili, a political prisoner held in Qarchak Prison, was arrested in Tehran in March 2023 and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin. She was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of \u201cassembly and collusion\u201d and \u201cpropaganda against the regime.\u201d Mehdi\u2019s cousin, Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, is also imprisoned in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad and has been sentenced to death on charges of membership in the PMOI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian Resistance calls for urgent action by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur, and other relevant UN bodies to ascertain the fate of Mehdi Vafaei, protect his life, and secure the freedom of all political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Secretariat of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran-ncri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1 October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Breaking?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Breaking<\/a> Iran News <br \/>Political prisoner Mehdi Vafaei Sani, 37, was forcibly transferred from Evin Prison to an unknown location on September 30, 2025. He was deceptively lured from Ward 7 under the false pretext of a family visit before being forced into a vehicle by intelligence\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zi2JbMwwy5\">pic.twitter.com\/Zi2JbMwwy5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/en_simayazadi\/status\/1973398257469456456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, political prisoner Mehdi Vafaei Sani, 37 years old and held in Ward 7 of Evin Prison, was summoned under the pretext of a family visit. 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