NCRI – The clerical regime has intensified pressures on a number of political prisoners arrested for either having family contacts with or visiting the residents of Camp Ashraf.
There has been no information about Majid Rezai, a 50-year-old political prisoner, since he arrest on December 31, 2009. Mr. Rezai was detained on charges of the presence of his child and brother in Ashraf and sent to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. He is a former political prisoner of the 1980s, who suffers from a variety of illnesses after going through 10 years of imprisonment.
On Wednesday, February 10, two members of the Nabavi family, Ms. Mehri Nabavi and Mr. Zia Nabavi, were also arrested after a raid by clerical regime’s intelligence agents on their residences in the cities of Qom and Semnan, respectively. Seven other members of the Nabavi family were arrested prior to that and are being held at Evin, Gohardasht and Semnan prisons.
In addition to the above cases, dozens of other political prisoners are being held in the mullahs’ prisons and torture chambers simply for having family contacts with the residents of Ashraf in Iraq or for having visited the residents. They have generally been held in solitary confinements, placed under duress and physical and psychological torture, and suffer from a variety of illnesses. They have also been placed under severe torture and pressure to appear in the mullahs’ show trials. Misses Massoumi and Zahra Jabbari protested against the cruel torture carried out against them during a show trial on Sunday, January 31. Ms. Jabbari, who has been arrested for the presence of her sister and brother in Ashraf, showed her fingers to the regime’s prosecutor, Moghiseyi, to prove that her nails had been pulled out. But, the prosecutor brazenly claimed, “You have pulled your nails yourself and now want to blame it on the expert (interrogator).”
The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations Secretary General, Security Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights, working group on arbitrary detention and Special Rapporteur on torture, as well as other international human rights organizations, to condemn arbitrary arrests in Iran and enact urgent measures to secure the release of the detainees who have been placed under inhumane circumstances.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 23, 2010
