Iran: Gholamreza Khosravi, on death row, denied family visits

                           
                                                 Political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi

The mullahs’ regime has barred political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi, who is on death row, from having family visits. Mr Khosravi, 47, was sentenced to death for financial assistance to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) on the bogus charge of “Moharebeh” (enmity against God).

In the 1980s, while he was only 16, Mr Khosravi was imprisoned for five years in the mullahs’ notorious prisons in Kazeroun for supporting the PMOI. He was subsequently arrested in 2008 in Rafsanjan and sentenced to six years in prison. In 2011 he was transferred to Evin Prison and retried for financial assistance to the PMOI and sentenced to death. He has spent a total of more than 40 months in solitary confinement since his arrest in 2008 and is currently awaiting his death sentence in Ward 350 of the notorious Evin Prison.

The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the UN Secretary General, Security Council, international human rights organizations, and in particular the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran and the special rapporteurs on arbitrary arrests, torture, and execution to take urgent measures to save the lives of political prisoners on death row, including Mr Khosravi and Mr Zanyar Moradi, 24, and Mr Laghman Moradi, 26, two Kurdish political prisoners who have been sentenced to hanging in public on the bogus charges of Moharebeh and Mofsed-e Fel-Arz (corruption on earth).

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 11, 2013