NCRI - In fear of spread and deepening nationwide uprising, Iranian regime has intensified pressure on relatives and members of families of Camp Ashraf residents and continues to arrest many more of them.

The clerical regime recently arrested three other relatives of residents of Camp Ashraf; Aliasghar Nabavi, Reza Gholizadeh, Hanif Hosseindoust. Three of those previously detained were sentenced to heavy prison terms; Seyyed Zia Nabavi, Monireh Rabi’i, Hassan Tarlani.

Aliasghar Nabavi, 25, resident of Ghaemshahr (northern Iran) was arrested on January 7 only for having relatives in Camp Ashraf. Reza Gholizadeh, Mr. Nabavi's brother-in-law, was arrested on January 8. Five other members of this family are currently imprisoned in cities of Karaj (central Iran), Semnan (northern Iran) and Tehran: Tayabeh Nabavi, Atefeh Nabavi, Fatemeh Nabavi, Seyyed Jalal Nabavi, Alireza Nabavi. Mr. Seyyed Zia Nabavi, another member of this family, has been charged with "association and collaboration to disturb national security, propaganda against the system, disturbing public order, creating anxiety in public," and cooperation with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

Hanif Hosseindoust, 28, married with a 2-years-old child, was arrested on January 17 for having his mother and uncles, in Camp Ashraf. Mr. Hossiendoust's cousin, Monireh Rabi’i, a 32 year-old engineer, had been arrested on October 7, 2009 on the same charges. She was sentenced to five years in prison and currently being held in Ward 350 of women's section of Tehran's Evin prison.

Mr. Hassan Tarlani, a 23-year-old student, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on similar charges. He recently was transferred from Ward 350 of Evin prison to a prison in city of Kerman (southern Iran) where the ordinary and dangerous prisoners are held.  Mr. Tarlani is the grandson of Hassan Ali Safai, a well-known Tehran bazaar merchant who was executed in 1981 for supporting the PMOI.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 23, 2010