Iran:
Family's Concerns of Political Prisoner Ali Moezzi
conspiracy targeting
the life of Mr. Ali Moezzi, the Iranian Resistance calls on all international
human rights organizations, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein and Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran
Asma Jahangir, for urgent and effective action aimed at saving the life of this
political prisoner.
Mr. Moezzi,
previously detained in hall 12 of ward 4 in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of
Tehran, was abducted by regime intelligence agents on January 4 following his
weekly family visit. Authorities resorted to force, dragging this 62-year-old
prisoner on the ground and tearing his shirt, according to eyewitnesses. He has
currently been transferred to solitary confinement in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison
and banned from any visits. The Iranian regime’s repressive organs are refusing
to provide any information of his whereabouts and/or conditions.
Moezzi, also jailed
as a political prisoner back in the 1980s, is the father of two members of the
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). He was last arrested in
June 2011. In December 2015 he received another year in prison despite his
original sentence coming to an end. He suffers from a variety of illnesses,
including cancer and ileus, and has repeatedly been transferred to solitary
confinement and placed under numerous types of tortures.
On January 13
Gohardasht Prison political prisoners issued a letter to Jahangir on the
Iranian regime’s judiciary and Ministry of Intelligence adopting repressive
measures.
“Not only do we
continuously witness prisoners being executed, tortured and harassed more than
ever before, in fact new methods are used for further crackdown and repression…
including… inmates being abducted and disappearing during normal commuting
inside prisons… This is the new definition of ‘security and power’ in the
government of Hassan Rouhani.”
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