1. Gholamreza Khosravi, 47, sentenced to death for providing financial assistance to the ‘Simaye Azadi’ satellite television station, has been deprived of personal family visits during the past 6 months. Khodabakhshi, the main torturer in the mullahs’ public prosecutors’ office said this prohibition is due to Khosravi’s signing of prisoners’ protests statements. Khosravi has spent 11 years of his life behind bars.
2. Mohsen Daneshpoor Moghadam, 70, arrested and sentenced to death for visiting his children and relatives in Ashraf in December 2009. He is under intense pressure and has been deprived of medical care despite the fact that he is suffering from severe heart problems. Through such measures the torturers are attempting to break his will and force him to repent, to which he has firmly stood against.
3. Ahmad Daneshpoor (son of Mohsen Daneshpoor), 40, sentenced to death, suffering from an acute digestive system illness and due to lack of medical care his physical conditions have deteriorated, causing him to lose more than 10 kilograms. Prison officials have deprived him of receiving his medication procured by his family.
4. Ali Moezi, 63, after refusing to attend the sham court sessions, protesting the regime’s measures of framing him in new cases, he has been placed under various types of pressures and limitations. He is deprived of even minimum medical services despite suffering from cancer, and he is also deprived of any family visits.
5. Mashallah (Hamid) Haeri, 62, suffering from heart attacks on numerous occasions, he has been recently in acute conditions after being intoxicated due to the prescription of wrong medication. Prison officials had no choice and were forced to take him to a hospital; however they prohibited his family and friends from visiting him there. He was arrested in December 2009 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. His brother, Abdullah Haeri, was seriously wounded in the Liberty missile barrage.
• Gholamreza Khosravi, Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpoor, Ali Moezi and Mashallah Haheri are all prisoners of Ward 350 in Tehran’s Evin Prison.
6. Mrs. Kefayat Malak Mohammadi, 60, was forced to undergo a difficult surgery after not receiving medical care in time for an infected ear, and she continues to suffer from the consequences. In January 2009 she was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison for attempting to exit Iran to visit her family members in Ashraf.
7. Mrs. Kobra Banazadeh, 58, was sentenced to five years in prison for seeking to travel to Ashraf to see her family members. She is currently held in the women’s ward in Evin Prison. She is now suffering from various illnesses, including Hepatitis, due to the deteriorating prison conditions, and she has lost sight in one eye from torture. Her other eye is also going blind for being deprived of medical care.
• Madams Kefayat Malak Mohammadi and Kobra Banazadeh are held in the women’s ward in Evin Prison.
8. Mohammad Banazadeh Amir Khizi (brother of Kobra Banazadeh), 66: despite suffering from cancer and deteriorating conditions, prison officials are prohibiting his hospitalization outside prison. A renowned Bazaar merchant in Tehran, he was arrested in December 2009 and sentenced to five years in prison for contacting his daughter in Ashraf. He is currently suffering from various illnesses. Three of his family members were executed in the 1980s for supporting the PMOI. His old mother, wife, sister and two younger brothers were placed under torture and spent time behind bars for traveling to Ashraf and visiting their children and family members.
9. Saleh Kohandel, 47, was arrested in March 2007 on charges of supporting the PMOI and given a 10 year imprisonment sentence. From a year ago he is in critical condition and is probably suffering from blood cancer. However, the henchmen deprive him of medical examinations and treatment. Two of his relatives by the names of Mahdia and Akbar Madadzadeh were slain in the Ashraf residents’ massacre in April 2011, and Shabnam and Farzad Madadzadeh are two of his other relatives who are currently in Gohardasht Prison.
10. Misaq Yazdan-nejad, 26, student: As a result of tortures and prison conditions, he is currently ill and in critical condition. He was arrested in 2005 and 2007 on charges of visiting his sister at Ashraf and taking part in a commemoration ceremony for the 1988 massacre and given a 14 year imprisonment sentence. Misaq’s father and mother have endured 3 years of imprisonment, and 3 of his uncles were martyred by the regime for supporting the PMOI.
In response to the pursuits of Misaq’s family, the regime’s henchmen said: “Why do you come here? You are Monafeqs (the regime’s derogatory term to describe the PMOI) and you are all sentenced to execution, you and your son must be executed”.
• Misters Mohammad Banazadeh, Saleh Kohandel and Misaq Yazdan-nejad are imprisoned in hall 12 of the Gohardasht Prison, a notorious and medieval torture dungeon in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran.
11. Ali Asghar Mahmoudian, former prisoner during 1980’s: In January 2010 he was arrested for the third time by the mullahs’ regime and given a 6 year imprisonment sentence and exiled to the Semnan Prison. The regime’s henchmen, in order to break down the political prisoners and force them to express remorse, hold them in the ward of dangerous criminals, where they are constantly under threats and psychological pressures. The lack of minimum medical treatment and sanitation in this prison – that was previously a stable – has brought about various illnesses among inmates. The lack of space is to an extent that prisoners are forces to rest crammed alongside each other like books in a shelf.
Mr. Mahmoudian has to this date spent 14 years of his life in the regime’s prisons. His 28 year old brother Amir, who was married, was executed in the city of Rasht.
12. Despite the passing of a month since the arrest of Mr. Reza Akbari and his son Ali, family members of PMOI members at Camp Liberty, the regime has refrained from giving any information to their family. Four of Mr. Akbari’s siblings have been executed by the mullahs’ regime’s execution squads. His sister and Mrs. Maryam Akbari Mohfared, 38, and mother of three infants, were arrested on December 31, 2010 and given a 15 year imprisonment sentence.
13. There is no news in hand of the fate of Mr. Hassan Sadeqi and Mrs. Fatima Mothana and Nima, their 16 year old son, who were arrested on January 29 and 30. The reason behind the arrest of this family was their preparation for a commemoration ceremony for Hassan Sadeqi’s father, PMOI member Gholam Hossein Sadeqi, a resident of Camp Liberty who died of a heart attack on January 23.
14. Mehdi Sajedifar, 35: The henchmen prevented his transfer to a hospital for the second time. He is probably suffering from esophagus cancer. The reason behind this inhuman act was that this inmate refrained from wearing prison uniforms during his transfer to the hospital. He is imprisoned in Ward 350 of the Evin Prison.
15. Saleh-Aldin Moradi is from the Gonabadi dervishes currently in the Adel Abad Prison in the city of Shiraz, southwest Iran. He is suffering from kidney pain and internal bleeding and as a result of not receiving minimum medical attention, is in a critical state.
16. Mehdi Ramezani, father of Ramin Ramezani who was martyred during an uprising on June 15, 2009, has been sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment for performing a ceremony for his son. His wife, Mrs. Zahra Mokhtarzadeh, suffered a heart attack on Monday, February 12, after hearing the news of her husband’s sentence.
17. In order to intensify pressure on political prisoners, the regime’s henchmen have in the past months prevented prisoners from purchasing food stuff such as dairy products and fruits.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 16, 2013