Iran: Critically ill political prisoner transferred to solitary confinement

                  

NCRI - Critically ill political prisoner, Ali Moezzi, has been transferred to solitary confinement and his family has been told by authorities in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison that no communication is allowed with him.

Mr. Ali Moezzi, who has just a few months of his sentence remaining and is about to be released, was recently transferred from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj to Tehran’s Evin Prison and where he was put under heinous pressures.

The regime’s intelligence henchmen have told Mr. Moezzi on numerous occasions that they will ultimately “torment you to death and finish you off” in prison and that he would not leave the prison alive. 

The tormenting to death and the murdering of political prisoners is a well-known and habitual method employed by the clerical regime.

His brother, Mohammad Moezzi, was executed in 1981 because of his support for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

On October 12, when he was expected to be transferred to the hospital for treatment, he was suddenly taken to Evin Prison in Tehran.

Mr. Ali Moezzi who is a political prisoner of the 1980s, was arrested in 2008 and condemned to two years in prison and was given a three year suspended prison sentence for visiting his two daughters in Camp Ashraf.

He was imprisoned for a third time in June 2011 for participating in the memorial ceremony of Mr. Ali Saremi, a political prisoner and supporter of the PMOI, who was executed by the clerical regime.

Because of his support for the PMOI (MEK) and his stances against the suppressive measures of the regime concerning the Iranian Resistance, Mr. Moezzi was constantly under the most severe physical and psychological pressures.