The henchmen of the mullahs' regime murdered Rajabi, a member of the PMOI, under torture in Gohardasht prison on October 30. Prior to his death, he was transferred to an isolation ward specially designed for political prisoners in the notorious Tehran Evin prison.
On, October 26, he was moved, with no explanation, to Gohardasht prison, some 40 kilometers west of the capital.
Despite efforts by the Iranian regime to keep it as a secret, Rajabi in a telephone contact managed to inform his family of the transfer. His call was suddenly cut short since the agents were monitoring the call.
He was born in 1962 in Mahidasht an area west of the western province of Kermanshah. In early 2001, Rajabi was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and was severely wounded.
At a later date, he was sentenced to death by the mullahs' judiciary. In 2006, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
In years he spent in jail both when he was in Dize Abad and then in Evin prison, he was under constant torture. He was subjected to physical and psychological torture for long periods.
As a known method employed by the mullahs' henchmen in dealing with the political prisoners, they attempted to break him down and force him to desert his opposition to the regime. Among the tactics, Rajabi was subjected to mock executions a number of times but he never gave in.
The PMOI calls on all conscientious people and defenders of human rights to condemn this heinous crime by the clerical dictatorship and calls on the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and other competent international bodies to send a fact finding mission to investigate this crime and the state of the Iranian regime's prisons in particular, the critical state of political prisoners.