NCRI – Political prisoners in Iran are enduring ongoing abuse, including denial of visits, lack of medical care and being given bird food with meals, according to reports from inside the regime.
At Rajaii Shahr Prison, in the city of Karaj, inmates are also being beaten, and families are being fingerprinted and photographed on arrival, it was reported.
A prisoner from ward four at Rajaei Shahr said: “For a while now, prison officials have been using bird food instead of meat in our food and no one has addressed this problem, despite continuous objections.”
Separate reports revealed political prisoner Jaafar Eqdami was seriously beaten by one of the Rajaei Shahr prison guards.
Prisoner Zeinab Jalalian at Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah has been deprived of medical treatment despite eye problems that could lead to blindness.
Prison officials have also forbidden her from having family visits, including seeing her loved ones sent home on arrival on October 2.
Zeinab was arrested in 2007 by the intelligence forces in Kermanshah Province and first sentenced to death before the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. She has staged several hunger strikes in protest at the inhumane treatment.
Authorities at Gohardasht prison, in Karaj, have also threatened several political prisoners with execution. A prison official told a number of prisoners, including Khaled Hardani, Shahrokh Zamani, Saleh Kohandel and Saeid Massouri, on September 24 that they could face death for continuing their political activity including condemning the Camp Ashraf massacre, while in prison.
Six other political prisoners in Qezel-hesar Prison, Karaj, have been on hunger strike for more than a week in protest at the transfer of two of their cell mates, Hamed Ahmadi and Sediq Mohammadi, according to reports.
