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Iranian political prisoners under harsh conditions

Reported by PMOI/MEK

 

Iran, Feb. 25, 2019 – Two weeks ago, Iranian regime authorities transferred political prisoner Mehdi Farahi Shandiz to solitary confinement in the Central Prison of Karaj. Since then, Farahi Shandiz has been deprived of calls and meetings with family members, and there's no news of him, which has raised concerns about his conditions and health.

Farahi Shandiz is an activist and electrical engineering graduate from Isfahan’s Industrial University. He is now in the eighth year of his prison sentence. Farahi Shandiz was first arrested in 2010 under bogus national security charges and for insulting Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime. His prison sentence was later extended from 3 to 12 years under various vague excuses. During his incarceration, Farahi Shandiz has endured different physical and mental tortures. He has also been regularly denied medical care.

Farahi Shandiz has had no sort of communications with his family since February 10.

On February 11, the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, Farahi Shandiz had chanted slogans of “down with dictator” and “down with Khamenei” in protest to 40 years of torture and executions under the tyrannical rule of the mullahs.

After Farahi Shandiz’s demonstration, prison guards attacked him in his cell and violently transferred him to solitary confinement while beating him.

Meanwhile, Maji Assadi, another Iranian political prisoner in Gohardasht prison, is now in the third year of his prison sentence. Assadi, a university student, is suffering from different illnesses and is in need of medical care, but regime authorities are denying him the most basic needs and have prevented him from going to the hospital on several occasions.

Assadi is suffering from inflammatory pain in his spine which is the result of another extended period of incarceration. In the past two years, under torture from regime officials, Assadi has suffered from ulcers and digestive complications. But regime authorities continue to torture him by denying him medical care.

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