In recent days, the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) has arrested a number of families of PMOI and the residents of Liberty and also rearrested previously released political prisoners. Mrs. Fatemeh Mosanna, Mrs. Fatemeh Ziaei, Mr. Mahmoud Azimi and Mr. Alireza Shariat Panahi are among the detainees.
Mrs. Fatemeh Mosanna, mother of two, was arrested on October 5 by intelligence agents of the regime in Tehran at her residence. She had spent years in prison for supporting the PMOI in the 80’s and was once again arrested in February 2012 with her husband, Hassan Sadeghi, and her 17-year-old son, Nima. Their arrest was because they were preparing to commemorate PMOI member, Gholamhossein Sadeghi, a PMOI member in Camp Liberty who passed away as the result of medical blockade on the camp. They were released on bail after enduring a year of imprisonment.
Morteza, Ali and Mostafa Mosanna, three brothers of Mrs. Mosanna were martyred by the regime in 1981 and 82. Morteza Mosanna was also a political prisoner and under torture under the Shah. The other brother of Mrs. Mosanna is in Liberty prison camp.
Mr. Alireza Shariat Panahi is a sympathizer of the PMOI and a political prisoner of the 80’s who had been imprisoned for years in difficult circumstances in the regime’s medieval prisons despite severe physical disability. He was once again arrested by the regime’s intelligence agents on October 5, 2015 and was transferred to an unknown location.
Mrs. Fatemeh Ziaei and her husband Mahmoud Azimi were arrested in a raid on October 11 by MOIS agents to their home.
Mrs. Ziaei, 58, suffered 5 years imprisonment and torture in the 80’s for supporting the PMOI. She was arrested on February 20, 2009 for visiting Ashraf and despite her acute disease, spent more than two years in prison. Because her two daughters are PMOI members, she was arrested for a third time on June 8, 2013 by the regime’s intelligence agents while she was in poor physical condition and under treatment.
Mr. Mahmoud Azimi, 64, is a political prisoner of the former regime and has been arrested several times since the 80’s including in 2010 and 2013. His niece, Nastaran Azimi, 23, was killed on April 8, 2011 attack by Iraqi forces on Ashraf.
Arrest of the families of PMOI members and the clerical regime’s malice against sympathizers of the PMOI is the other side of the coin of dispatching terrorist Quds Force and MOIS agents to Liberty under the guise of family members, and psychological torture of Mojahedin and is preparing the ground to launch another massacre.
The Iranian Resistance calls on human rights organizations, especially the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran to strongly condemn these arbitrary arrests and calls for immediate action for the release of the detainees.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 16, 2015
