Letter to Javid Rahman Protesting Transfer of Iran’s Political Prisoners
The Human Rights Defenders Center in a letter to Javid Rahman, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, protested the increased transfer of political prisoners from Tehran prisons to prisons in other cities.
The Human Rights Defenders Center of Iran on Sunday, Farvardin 1st (March 21), in a letter to Javid Rahman, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, protested the increased transfer of political prisoners from Tehran prisons to prisons in other cities. In this letter, the hunger strike of political prisoners in protest against this “unlawful and harmful” method has been supported.
The Human Rights Defenders Center of Iran, headed by Shirin Ebadi, a lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, emphasized that the transfer of political prisoners “has no legal basis and violates the provisions contained in Article 513 of the Code of Criminal Procedure” and causes “numerous problems for prisoners and their families.”
In the letter, it complained that the distance and remote location make it difficult for families to visit, and warning that “under various pretexts, including the absence of political prisoners in some prisons, prisoners are not separated and political prisoners are placed alongside common prisoners,” it stated that this situation “may have unfavorable consequences.”
The Human Rights Defenders Center has asked the UN Special Rapporteur to “use all legal means at his disposal to prevent the repetition of this practice and to return the prisoners to their previous locations.”
Simultaneously, 18 political prisoners from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, by publishing an open letter, protested the transfer of political prisoners, transfer to solitary confinement, humiliation and degradation, beating, the filing of new cases, and the issuance of new sentences against them, and said that all of these are methods of pressuring prisoners and harassing their families.
This is a three-day hunger strike, and among those who signed the statement are Saeed Aqbali, Sina Beheshti, Aliyeh Motahharzadeh, Peyman Poordad, Giti Poorfazel, Hossein Jandaghian, Moein Hajizadeh, Shakeela Manfred, Keyvan Samimi (from Evin Prison), Mohammad Sharifi-Moghaddam and Kianosh Abbaszadeh (from Fashafuyeh Prison), Mohammad Davari and Sojad Zarei (from Adel Abad Prison), and Kasra Nuri.
Source: DW
