NCRI - Iranian regime has arrested a number of supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and families of Camp Ashraf residents subjecting them to pressures.

Ali Mehrnia, 70, Parviz Varmazyari, 54, Majid Rezaii, Alireza Nabavi and Ali Massoumi have been arrested since the day of Ashura (December 27, 2009). They all have children or relatives in Camp Ashraf.

Varmazyari and Rezaii both were political prisoners in the 1980's. Mr. Nabavi's wife, Aatefeh, and five other members of their family, Tayebeh, Fatemeh, Seyed Zohour, Seyed Zia and Seyed Jalal Nabavi were all political prisoners.

Asghar Mahmoudian, another political prisoner of 1980's was arrested along with his wife Kefayat Malek-Mohammadi on the midnight of December 31, 2009.

Mr. Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, 63, a bazaar merchant, was arrested on November 30. Some of his relatives reside in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The authorities of the clerical regime refuse to give any information about his whereabouts and his state to his family. His sister, Ms. Kobra Amirkhizi, 56, who has been sentenced to five years imprisonment, has lost the sight of one of her eyes under torture and lack of medical attention.

The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations Secretary General, UN Security Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and other human rights organizations to condemn arrests and torture in prisons in Iran and take urgent measures for the release of detainees who are currently kept under inhuman conditions.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 8, 2010