Execution of the forced labor sentence; A report on the latest situation of Meysam Bahramabadi
Former political prisoner Meysam Bahramabadi was summoned to serve his supplementary sentence of forced labor in the municipality. Mr. Bahramabadi was arrested in March last year while writing slogans in Tehran and sentenced by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to 6 months of penal servitude and 6 months of forced labor in the municipality for 4 hours a day. He was finally released from Evin Prison in June this year on a conditional leave.
According to HRANA, the news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, Meysam Bahramabadi, a former political prisoner, was summoned to the municipality to serve his supplementary sentence of forced labor.
Mr. Bahramabadi was arrested and beaten by police officers near Tehran's Enghelab Square on March 5, 2019, for writing slogans and was transferred to the detention center of Enghelab Police Station 148. He was eventually sent to Imam Sajjad Hospital at night due to his deteriorating condition.
On March 6, 2019, Mr. Bahramabadi was indicted by Branch 1 of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office on the charge of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran through repeated street slogan writing” and was issued a bail of 50 million Tomans. The citizen was taken to the forensic medicine department to have the beating recorded and was eventually transferred to Evin Prison.
After nearly two and a half months of detention, he was sentenced by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, to 6 months of penal servitude and, as an additional punishment, to 6 months of forced labor in the municipality for 4 hours a day. After submitting to the verdict, 45 days of his sentence were reduced.
Some time later, Meysam Bahramabadi went to Branch 3 of the Evin Prosecutor's Office to pursue his complaint against Captain Mehdi Parastesh, a police officer, for beating him. According to an informed source, during this meeting, Mr. Bahramabadi was told that 50 police personnel had testified that he had self-harmed and had not been beaten. Captain Mehdi Parastesh also claimed that Mr. Bahramabadi had beaten him.
This informed source told HRANA in this regard: “The investigator said that the police officer also claimed to have been beaten and that it had been recorded by the forensic doctor. Then he scared Mr. Bahramabadi away from pursuing the complaint and said that if proven, his sentence would be extended and he would be transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison. For this reason, Meysam also gave up filing the complaint.”
Mr. Bahramabadi was finally sent on leave connected to his release on June 27 of this year, and some time later he was summoned by Branch 1 of the Evin Prosecutor's Office's Sentence Execution Unit to serve his additional sentence.
An informed source told HRANA in this regard: “After going to the prosecutor’s office, he was given a letter of introduction to the Shahid Bagheri District 22 municipality and he was also sent to the Cheshmeh town of the Olympic Square of the Municipal Affairs Department, but due to the increasing number of citizens infected with the coronavirus and fear of this pandemic, he refused to go for a while. Recently, they have contacted him again to go to the municipality again.”
Mr. Bahramabadi has previously been arrested and sentenced for his civic activities. He was arrested in January 2018 and sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court to 7 months and 15 days of imprisonment and 62 lashes, and was eventually released early from Evin Prison on March 14 of the same year.
Meysam Bahramabadi was born on May 4, 1992.
Source: HRANA
