Mr. Javid Tehrani has been on hunger strike since Tuesday, July 14. He is extremely weak, his body is bruised and swollen after being subjected to continuous and intolerable torture, which has rendered him unable to walk. His liver has been seriously damaged after being struck by batons. Mr. Javid Tehrani is being held in solitary confinement, also known as “dog pound,” at Gohardasht prison, and has been banned from having visits for the past month.
The other political prisoner, Mr. Mansouri is incarcerated in the same ward. Protesting the prison’s intolerable conditions, he went on hunger strike ten days ago and his health is rapidly deteriorating.
Gohardasht prison’s warden, Haj Kazem, the prison’s executive deputy, Kermani, the chair and deputy of the prison’s protection and intelligence office, Kermani and Nabiollah Farajnezhad, along with Ward 1 supervisor and another torturer, Saeed Sheykhan, plan to eradicate in one way or another political prisoners detained before the recent uprising in Iran, in the midst of the large number of the uprising’s detainees and the chaotic situation in the regime’s prisons.
The Iranian Resistance warns against the elimination of political prisoners by the regime’s henchmen and calls on all international authorities, especially human rights organizations and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to take immediate measures to investigate the catastrophic situation of prisoners in Iran and to put an end to the regime’s executions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 16, 2009