NCRI – Hamid Haeri was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Court. He was charged with “Moharebeh,” (waging war against God), for visiting his son in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
Mr. Hamid Haeri, while suffering from acute ailments, unable to walk on his own, was transferred from solitary confinement to the 28th Branch of the Revolutionary Court without his lawyer and family being notified. He was recently transferred to solitary confinement in Ward 240 of Tehran’s Evin prison.
Mr. Hamid Haeri who is 57-years-old, on October 6, 2009 in a raid by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security was arrested and sent to Ward 209 of Evin Prison where he spent 74 days in solitary confinement. He was later transferred to Ward 350.
Mr. Haeri was a prisoner of conscience in 1980s, has been put under severe physical and psychological tortures one of which is threat to his wife and daughter that if he refuses to comply with dictates of the regime they will be arrested and sent to notorious Kahrizak prison.
