Iranian resistance calls for an international investigation on poisoning political prisoners
NCRI – Following the suspicious death of a political prisoner, Omid Reza Mir-Sayafi, a 28-year-old journalist and blogger, the Iranian Resistance called on the UN Secretary General and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to assign an international fact finding mission to investigate the condition of political prisoners, in particular recent poisoning deaths.
Mr. Mir-Sayafi was sentenced to two and half years prison for propagating against the clerical regime. He died in the notorious Evin prison on Wednesday. According to reports, Mir-Sayafi suffered from various ailments. However, he was deprived of basic medical care. Mir-Sayafi health deteriorated when he took the medication provided by the prison's clinic and suspiciously died shortly after in the same facility.
The clerical regime murdered Mr. Amir Hossein Heshmat-Saran, another political prisoner with toxic chemicals. On March 8, in a statement, the Iranian resistance warned against the mullahs' criminal policy of murdering political prisoners by toxic chemicals.
Secretariat of National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 19, 2009
