Exiled political prisoner’s letter; Salar Sedighi Hamedani, from Kamyaran Prison, a wake-up call for the international community.
Exiled political prisoner’s letter reads in part: “We are behind the bars, cannot do anything. The world should know what tortures we had suffered. We urge the human rights organizations to be our voice, so maybe these crime would stop.”
In his letter, political prisoner, Salar Sedighi Hamedani explains about the tortures that he and his father, Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi Hamedani have suffered, asking the human rights organizations for help.
The human rights center of “No to Prison- No to Execution”, Wednesday, January 19, 2022- Political prisoners, Salar Sediq Hamedani, who was exiled to Kamyaran Prison a while ago, explains the conditions under which he and his father Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi Hamedani have been incarcerated in recent years and the tortures they had suffered. Exiled political prisoner’s letter also points to violation of the right to Separation of Crimes for political prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In his letter, Salar has pointed to his father’s problems and illnesses and the fact that he is not able to tolerate prison conditions; he wrote: “Though the doctors have said that my father’s health is in a critical condition, and he needs to be transferred to a hospital, he is deprived of any medical care, even his essential medication.”
Pointing to the violation of the principle of Separation of Crimes, Salar wrote: “In prison, the authority and MOIS agents incited the prisoners of violent crimes to threaten us and in some cases, they attacked us with knives…Why haven’t we been transferred to the ward of political prisoners, in Urmia Prison? Is this right to keep political prisoners along side the offenders of drug crimes of other common crimes?”
Salar and his father went on hunger strike on January 3, 2022, to protest the violation of the principle of Separation of Crimes, but their response was to be exiled to Kamyaran and Marivan prisons on January 9, respectively.
Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi Hamedani, though suffering from diabetes is currently on hunger strike in a solitary confinement cell in Marivan Prison.
The exiled political prisoner’s letter, Salar Sedighi Hamedani, that has reached the human rights center of “No to Prison- No to Execution” is as follows:
I, Salar Sedighi Hamedani, along with my father Ebrahim Sedighi Hamedani, are serving our 3rd year in prison on charge of “membership in people’s Mojaheding Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Under detention at IRGC Intelligence we were subjected to most severe physical and psychological tortures, then we were transferred to Urmia Prison where we were sentenced to jail.
In prison, the authority and MOIS agents incited the prisoners of violent crimes to threaten us and in some cases, they attacked us with knives. After a while I was taken to MOIS and underwent the most harsh and horrific psychological tortures. Another case was opened for us; we were sentenced to another 11 months’ jail.
After a while, we were both taken to IRGC Intelligence Organization and again were subjected to physical and psychological tortures. Upon our return to prisoner, we were once again attacked by knives by some inmates; Urmia Prison authorities were not hold to account.
Despite of the fact that my father suffers from diabetes, he was deprived of medical care at Urmia Prison. A specialist addressing the prison authorities had write in a letter that my father must be hospitalized outside the prison and a specialist must attend to him, but they refrained from deploying him to a hospital. They even deprived him of his essential medication.
Though my father is in dire health condition, they have exiled us to two different prisons. My father to Marivan County and me, to Kamyaran prison. I am confined alongside the offender of narcotic related crimes.
Why weren’t we transferred to the ward of political prisoners at Urmia Prison? Is it not violating the rights of political prisoners when they keep them alongside the offenders of narcotic related crimes or other ordinary criminals?
We are behind the bar, and we can do nothing. We want the world to know what tortures we had suffered.
We urge the human rights organizations to be our voices so maybe these crimes would stop.
Salar Sedighi Hamedani,
Kamyaran Prison
Ebrahim Khalil and Salar Sedighi Hamedani were detained on February 23, 2019, by security forces in Urmia.
Two political prisoners, Ebrahim Khalil and Salar Sedighi Hamedani, while being denied access to an elected lawyer, were each sentenced to 15 years in prison for “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran” and a year in prison for “Propaganda Against the Regime” in the Revolutionary Court of Urmia.
They were also sentenced by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia to another three years in prison on charges of “filming military bases” bringing their sentence to 19 years in prison, each.
The human rights center of “No to Prison- No to Execution” urges the international human rights organizations, European Parliament, Mrs. Bachelet the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights and Mr. Javaid Rehman, the Especial Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran to send an investigative humanitarian mission to visit Iran’s prisons. Life of the prisoners in general and political prisoners in particular, is at stake in Iran regime’s inhumane prisons.
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