NCRI – Recently, the henchmen of the anti-human regime of the mullahs suddenly transferred political prisoner Mr. Ali Moezzi, who has just a few months of his sentence remaining and about to be released, from the Gohardasht Prison in Karaj to the solitary cells of ward 209 of the infamous Evin Prison and placed him under heinous pressures. The regime’s intelligence henchmen have told Mr. Moezzi on numerous occasions that they will ultimately “torment you to death and finish you off” in prison and that he would not leave the prison alive. The tormenting to death and the murdering of political prisoners is a well-known and usual method employed by the clerical regime. Henchmen refuse to respond to Mr. Moezzi’s family who are worried about his life. His brother Mohammad Moezzi was executed in 1981 because of his support for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Mr. Ali Moezzi who is suffering from various diseases, including an acute renal problem and obstruction of intestines, because of years of imprisonment and torture fell unconscious on September 30 due to severe pain in the stomach. Following protests by his cellmates, the henchmen were forced to transfer him to a hospital in city of Karaj.
In order to further pressure him, they chained his hand and leg to the bed even in the hospital. A week after his hospitalization, while his treatment was still incomplete, he was sent back to prison where he has been deprived of even minimal medical care. On October 12, when he was expected to be transferred to the hospital for treatment, he was suddenly taken to Evin Prison in Tehran.
Mr. Ali Moezzi who is a political prisoner of the 1980s, was arrested in 2008 and condemned to two years in prison given a three year suspended prison sentence for visiting his two daughters in Camp Ashraf. He was imprisoned for a third time in June 2011 for participating in the memorial ceremony of Mr. Ali Saremi, a political prisoner and supporter of the PMOI that was executed by the clerical regime.
Because of his support for the PMOI and his stances against the suppressive measures of the regime concerning the Iranian Resistance, Mr. Moezzi was constantly under the most severe physical and psychological pressures.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights bodies, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and the Rapporteurs on arbitrary detention and torture, to take effective action to save the life of this political prisoner who has been under severe pressure and torture in the past month and is about to be tormented to death.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 15, 2014