Execution of Forced Labor Sentence; Report on Latest Status of Meysam Bahrami Abadi
Meysam Bahrami Abadi, a former political prisoner, has been summoned to the municipality to carry out his supplementary punishment sentence of forced labor. Mr. Bahrami Abadi was arrested in March 2020 while writing slogans in Tehran and was sentenced by Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court to six months of punitive imprisonment and six months of forced labor at the municipality for four hours daily. He was ultimately released on June 2020 on a leave leading to freedom from Evin Prison.
According to Hrana, the news agency of the Iranian Human Rights Activists Network, Meysam Bahrami Abadi, a former political prisoner, has been summoned to the municipality to carry out his supplementary punishment sentence of forced labor.
Mr. Bahrami Abadi was arrested on March 6, 2020, near Tehran’s Revolution Square by law enforcement officers due to writing slogans, accompanied by beatings, and was transferred to the 148 Revolution Police Station. He was eventually transferred to Imam Sajjad Hospital at night due to his severe condition.
On March 7, 2020, Mr. Bahrami Abadi received a charge notification from Branch 1 of Evin Prosecutor’s Office regarding the charge of “propaganda activity against the Islamic Republic system through repeated street slogan writing” and a bail of 50 million tomans was issued for him. This citizen was transferred to Evin Prison after documenting the beatings at the Legal Medicine Organization.
After nearly two and a half months of detention, he was sentenced by Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, to six months of punitive imprisonment and, as a supplementary punishment, to six months of forced labor at the municipality for four hours daily. After submitting to the sentence, 45 days were deducted from his sentence.
Some time later, Meysam Bahrami Abadi followed up on his complaint against Sergeant Mehdi Parastesh, one of the law enforcement officers, for beating him at Branch 3 of Evin Prosecutor’s Office. According to an informed source, during this session, Mr. Bahrami Abadi was told that 50 law enforcement personnel testified that he had hurt himself and was not beaten. Sergeant Mehdi Parastesh also claimed that Mr. Bahrami Abadi had beaten him.
This informed source told Hrana: “The investigator said that the law enforcement officer also claimed to have been beaten and it was documented by the Legal Medicine Organization. Then he frightened Mr. Bahrami Abadi from pursuing his complaint and said if proven, your imprisonment will be longer and you will be transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison. For this reason, Meysam also dropped his complaint”.
Mr. Bahrami Abadi was ultimately released on June 28, 2020, on a leave leading to freedom, and sometime later was summoned by Branch 1 of the Sentence Execution Unit of Evin Prosecutor’s Office to serve his supplementary punishment.
An informed source told Hrana in this regard: “After visiting the prosecutor’s office, he was given an introduction letter to the 22 Shahid Bagheri District Municipality, and he was sent to the Cheshmeh Meidan Olympic Municipal Services area, but due to the increase in coronavirus cases among citizens and fear of this pandemic, he refused to go some time later. Recently, he has been contacted again to return to the municipality”.
Mr. Bahrami Abadi previously also had a record of arrest and conviction due to his civil activities. He was arrested in December 2018 and sentenced by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court to seven months and 15 days of punitive imprisonment and to endure 62 lashes, and was ultimately released early from Evin Prison on March 15, 2019.
Meysam Bahrami Abadi was born on May 4, 1992.
Source: Hrana
