His wife and other son have been in jail for the past six months
NCRI – Mr. Mohammad Salam Joshan, 52, father of a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) residing in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, was arrested on Monday evening, May 24, at his work place in Sorkhe-Hesar of Karaj, west of Tehran and taken to Evin prison. He was charged with rebellion and acting against national security.
His wife, Zahra Asadpour Gorji (Joshan), 52, and his son, Reza, 25, had been arrested within one week in December 2009 and put in solitary confinement in Ward 8 of Gohardasht prison in Karaj. This prison is under the control of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The regime is putting pressure on this family and torturing them in order to force their son leave Ashraf and return to Iran. Mrs. Asadpour had previously been jailed for 16 months for visiting her son in Ashraf together with her daughter, Fatemeh.
Mrs. Asadpour and her son had previously been imprisoned for one year in Zanjan prison and sent to exile for additional four years in Qilar, a village near Zanjan, for having a family member residing in Ashraf.
Arrest of families of PMOI members residing in Ashraf takes place while MOIS and terrorist Quds force in conjunction with the Iraqi government and armed forces have assembled a number of their agents posing as families of the camp’s residents at the main gate of Ashraf for the past four months.
They have been engaged in psychological torture of Ashraf residents and provoke chaos and disorder in a bid to pave the way for killing of the residents.
Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special rapporteurs and working groups, to take urgent measures to investigate the state of political prisoners in Iran and get them released.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 28, 2010
