Political prisoner Saeed Masoori was returned to the general ward after a group of prisoners resisted.
After being transferred to an unknown location, political prisoner Saeed Masoori was returned to the general ward of the prison, with resistance from a group of prisoners.
This afternoon, Wednesday, July 15, Ministry of Intelligence forces arrived at the detention center where political prisoner Saeed Masoori, who is serving a life sentence, was suddenly taken out of the cell and transferred to an unknown location without providing any specific explanation.
Dr. Saeed Masuri, born in 1965, who was residing in Norway to study, was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in Dezful city on January 9, 1990, upon his return to Iran, on charges of “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.” His family was informed of his arrest in May of the following year. After his arrest, he spent 14 months in a solitary cell of the Ahvaz Intelligence Department, after which he was transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, and then to Qezl-e-Hesar Prison in Karaj.
He was sentenced to death in 2002 by the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of war crimes, but his sentence was eventually reduced to life imprisonment. Since his arrest, Saeed Masoori has not had any leave of absence, whether in the Ahvaz Intelligence Bureau detention center, Evin Prison, or Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj. Throughout these years, he has repeatedly gone on hunger strike in the face of illegal actions by prison officials and security forces, which resulted in his physical injury and his deprivation of medical services in prison.
This afternoon, when the Ministry of Intelligence agents in Qezl-e-Hesar Prison in Karaj tried to transfer him to another prisoner, they encountered resistance from a group of prisoners in Ward 4, but they nevertheless transferred him to an unknown location. The action of the Ministry of Intelligence agents was met with protest and resistance from the prisoners in this ward, resulting in a fierce clash between the agents and the prisoners, and ultimately the security forces returned Saeed Masoori to the general ward of the prison.
After he was returned to the general ward, prison guards and security forces were stationed behind the door of the hall, and the atmosphere in the hall remains tense. According to published reports, it is believed that the Ministry of Intelligence agents intended to transfer him because he wrote a letter from Qezl-e-Hazar prison criticizing the process of issuing and carrying out death sentences in Iran, especially for political defendants.
