Letter to Javid Rahman protesting the deportation of Iranian political prisoners
In a letter to Javed Rahman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, the Center for Human Rights Defenders protested the increase in the deportation of political prisoners from Tehran prisons to prisons in other cities.
On Sunday, March 21, the Iranian Center for Human Rights Defenders protested the increasing deportation of political prisoners from Tehran prisons to prisons in other cities in a letter to Javed Rahman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. The letter supports the political prisoners' hunger strike in protest of this "illegal and harassing" method.
The Iranian Center for Human Rights Defenders, headed by Shirin Ebadi, a lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has emphasized that the deportation of political prisoners "has no legal basis and is contrary to the provisions of Article 513 of the Criminal Procedure Code" and causes "numerous problems for prisoners and their families."
The letter complains that the distance and distance of the road make it difficult for families to visit each other, and points out that "under various pretexts, including the lack of political prisoners in some prisons, prisoners are not separated and political prisoners are placed next to ordinary prisoners," warning that this situation "may have dire consequences."
The Center for Human Rights Defenders has called on the UN Special Rapporteur to "use all legal means to prevent this practice from recurring and return the prisoners to their former location."
At the same time, 18 political prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj published an open letter protesting the deportation of political prisoners, transfer to solitary confinement, insults and humiliation, beatings, filing new cases, and issuing new sentences against them, saying that all of these are methods of exerting pressure on prisoners and harassing their families.
This hunger strike is three days long, and the signatories of the statement include Saeed Eghbali, Sina Beheshti, Alia Motabalzadeh, Peyman Pourdad, Giti Pourfazel, Hossein Jandaghian, Moein Hajizadeh, Shakila Monfared, Keyvan Samimi (from Evin Prison), Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam and Kianoush Abbaszadeh (from Fashafoyeh Prison), Mohammad Davari and Sajjad Zare (from Adel Abad Prison), and Kasra Nouri.
Source: DW
