Political prisoner’s transfer to common criminal ward of the notorious Evin Prison a step further in suppressing political prisoners
NCRI – The 63-years-old Mrs. Zahra Aliqoli who had been in women’s ward number three of the notorious Evin Prison for past ten months, has recently been transferred to common criminals’ ward. This ward is meant to keep highly dangerous criminals.
One of the measures adopted by the judge Hassan Zareh-Dehnavi and Mahmoud Salar-Kia, an official with the mullahs’ Justice Ministry, against the political prisoners is to put them in such wards where common criminals are kept. The prison officials keep common criminals next to political prisoners to break their moral and encourage inmates to physically attack or insult them. She has been beaten by those criminals who have later been rewarded for their behavior by prison warden in terms of limited leave from prison.
Subsequent to the decision by U.N.’s Human Rights Council to lift Iran’s monitoring, the agents at the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have stepped up their pressure on the political prisoners and their families. In past few weeks, the political prisoners have been subjected to more torture in Iran.
In 1981, Mrs. Aliqoli was arrested and imprisoned for the first time with her husband. In 1986, for second time, she was imprisoned and tortured severely by the regime’s henchmen.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations to adopt urgent measures to save the lives of political prisoners and to appoint a Special Rapporteur to monitor human rights’ conditions in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 6, 2007
