Iran - Report on method of arrest, court procedures & dire conditions of 6 Facebook users held in Evin Prison
Report on method of arrest,
court procedures & dire conditions of 6 Facebook users held in Evin Prison
Amir Golestani, Fariborz
Kardar, Massoud Talebi, Massoud Ghasem Khani, Mehdi Reyshahri and Mohammad Amin
Akrami are six prisoners in the case known as “Facebook suspects” transferred to the quarantine section of ward 8 in Evin Prison after their
total of 56 years prison sentence was confirmed. They are on the verge of going
on hunger strike protesting dire conditions in the public ward including
prisoners with ordinary crimes, and pressures imposed by the Revolutionary
Guards in court that led to their unjustified sentencing.
“Amir Golestani and five other suspects of this case have
been transferred to the worse and most notorious section of Evin Prison, being
ward 8 especially allocated to smugglers, drug addicts, thieves, murderers and rapists,
and generally prisoners with non-political charges,” a source close to these
prisoners said.
After undergoing months of interrogation in IRGC solitary
confinement, in late May 2014 Amir Golestani and seven others suspects of this
case were sentenced to 20 years and 91 days behind bars by branch 28 of a
revolution court chaired by Judge Moghise. Each of the individuals were
sentenced on charges such as insulting the sanctities, assembly and collusion
with the intention to disrupt national security, insulting the leader,
insulting the three branches and propaganda against the system. These
individuals were described as being a “member of a Facebook group” and accused
of “assembly and collusion” merely for having friends on Facebook! (Activists
in Exile – Apr 23, 2015)
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