Iran: Political prisoners honour memory of slain MEK member

                         

NCRI - A group of political prisoners in Gohardasht prison in the city of Karaj held a ceremony on Sunday to honour the memory of Ali Saremi, prominent political prisoner and a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), executed in Tehran's Evin Prison on December 28, 2010.

Mr. Saremi, 63, had spent a total of 24 years in the prisons of the Shah's regime and under the mullahs’ rule in Iran.

He was arrested for the last time in September 2007 during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran in which he played an active role to organize.

Despite pressures by prison authorities to prevent any activity in this regard, a large group of prisoners succeeded in holding the ceremony in section 12 of Gohardasht prison.

The participants pledged to continue the path taken by Mr. Saremi in resisting against the clerical dictatorship in Iran.