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Daughter of a prominent political prisoner speaks about the plight of father in Iran prison

Miss Paria Kohandel, daughter of a renowned pol. Prisoner in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht prison located northwest of Tehran spoke to the NCRI website explaining the condition her father is in right now. Mr. Saleh Kohandel, a supporter of the Iranian Resistance (PMOI/MEK) 
Mr. Kohandel this week wrote an open letter from prison to his relatives announcing that he will no longer accept family visits due to the subjugation that he is forced to endure at the hands of the mullahs’ regime before, during and after such visits.
Mr. Kohandel was arrested on March 4, 2007 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for supporting the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin Khalq, MEK).
The last time Paria saw her father was in Gohardasht Prison last year, one month before she fled Iran.
The text of Mr. Kohandel’s letter smuggled out of prison:
Family visits at what price?
At a time when the rotten and decaying regime of velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule) is in its final chapter and each day there are new reports in state media of vast theft and embezzlement by various high-ranking and ordinary members of the regime, and as officials are overtaking each other in such theft and plundering of the nation, on Wednesday May 4 they summoned me for a visit from my family. Although it has been six years since I was allowed to have direct interaction with my relatives during their visits, and this latest visit was from behind the glass partition, I was searched four times between our Ward and the Visitors’ Hall. In order to degrade me, the wardens attempted to strip me in front of the other prisoners. This dirty action was despite the fact that the wardens know full well that in the 10 years that I am in prison I have not violated any of the prison regulations including those which stem from their reactionary nature. My only crime, in their view, are my political activities, and for this reason I have on many occasions been transferred to the Ward run by the Intelligence Ministry and spent months under torture in solitary confinement. Therefore in order to partly allay the insults that my relatives and I are being subjected to, I have decided not to attend any further visits. I urge all my relatives not to come to visit me from this day onward. I apologize to my family in advance because I can no longer tolerate the insults and humiliation that I am subjected to.

Saleh Kohandel
Gohardasht Prison

 

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