NCRI – There remains no news on the whereabouts of relatives of Ashraf and Liberty residents detained on the verge of the mullahs’ sham elections, despite the passing of over three weeks from their arrests and the continuous follow-ups by their loved ones. The names of a number of those arrested are as follows:
Mr Mohammad Moezi was arrested on 13 June 2013 – the day before the elections – during a raid by the regime’s intelligences agents on his house in Karaj (west of Tehran). He was then taken to an unknown location. In this raid a number of other relatives of Ashraf and Liberty residents were also apprehended.
Mohammad Reza Khosravi, brother of political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi who is on death row for supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, was arrested on June 6th and transferred to Ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison.
Mrs Fateme Ziaei-Azad, Mr Mostafa Hadadi and Mr Hassan Saremi – along with his son Hamed, 32, and daughter Shahla, 28, were arrested on June 5th. The regime’s henchmen have placed them under torture to obtain forced confessions.
Amongst the others arrested are Misters Ahmad Asgari Daneshjoo, arrested on June 20th in Tehran’s Fadak Park; Ali Mashhadi Kazemi, arrested on June 11th in Tehran’s Ekbatan district; and Hamid Rahmani, arrested in Karaj. There is no information on the whereabouts of any of those arrested.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international and human rights organizations, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detentions and Torture, and the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran to immediately see into the urgent status of political prisoners, especially those recently arrested.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 4, 2013
