Thirteen political prisoners transferred to Unit 4 of GhezelHesar prison, the location for drug addicts
According to the Iranian Human Rights Society On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, the thirteen prisoners transferred by order of the director of Tehran prisons to the unit 4 drug-related prisoners. The prisoners include Saeed Masouri, Afshin Baymani, Hamzeh Savari, Hossein Gachlo, Masoudreza Ebrahimi Nejad, Laghman Aminpour, Saman Yasin (Sayedi), Mohammad Shafeai, Sepehr Emam Jomaeh, Kamyar Fakour, Ahmadreza Haeri, Reza Salmanzadeh, and Jafar Ebrahimi. They transferred to a place with minimal facilities. These political prisoners suddenly transferred from Evin prison to Qezelhesar prison in Karaj on September 3, 2023, while they were handcuffed and shackled. They taken to a facility where prisoners sentenced to death spend their last night. In protest of being transferred, they started a hunger strike.
Some of these transfered prisoners are as follow
Political prisoner Afshin Baimani – Date of arrest: 5 Septamber 2000- Amount of sentence: Life imprisonment.
Accusation: Moharebeh through support of Mujahideen organization. He has been in prison for more than 22 years.
Political prisoner Saeed Masouri,22 years in prison.
Political prisoner Saeed Masouri – Date of arrest: 18 January 2001- Amount of sentence: Life imprisonment. Accusation: Moharebeh through membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization. He has been in prison for 22 years.
Political prisoner Hamzeh Sawari – Date of arrest: 2 Septamber 2001-
Amount of sentence: Life imprisonment- Accusation: Moharebeh through supporting Al-Ahwaziyeh. He arrested at the age of 16 and has been in prison for 17 years now.
Political prisoner Lughman Aminpour two and a half months of solitary cell
Political prisoner Lughman Aminpour – Date of last arrest: 13 June 2020 . Amount of sentence: 10 years – Accusation: Propaganda against the system, community and collusion against the system. And membership in the People’s Mujahideen – Lughman Aminpour after the fire and brutal beating of Evin prison transferred to Ward 241 of Evin and interrogated. After two and a half months of solitary confinement and torture, in January 2022, he transferred to Gohardasht prison (Rajai Shahr). And a new case opened against him.
Political prisoner Saman Yassin (Sayedi) is one of the detainees of the national protests of 2022 . Date of arrest: October 2, 2022 – Accusation: “Fighting using weapons and shooting 3 bullets””.And “Assembly and collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the security of the country”. Despite more than 10 months of detention, Saman Yasin is still in limbo.
“Mohammad Shafeaii, another political prisoner transferred from Gohardasht prison, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of (Moharebeh) corruption on earth.”
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