Special forces of Iran’s Orumiyeh prison, in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, have raided the prison ward housing prisoners of conscience today and have resorted to violence for transferring the prisoners to a new security ward.
The officers have severely beaten prisoners who resisted the transfer, destroying their personal belongings.
Several political prisoners, including Farzad Samani, were transferred to solitary confinement after being beaten by the officers.
Earlier, on 12 December 2021, all 47 inmates of the ward went on a strike to protest against the decision to transfer them to the new security ward.
They first refused to receive prison rations for five days and then went on a hunger strike for a week.
The striking prisoners ended their strike after meeting with the head of the prison who promised to pursue the issue and try not to relocate political and religious prisoners.
Contrary to the promise of the prison head, this morning political and religious prisoners were taken to the new security ward, which has a smaller area and fewer facilities than the previous ward.
With the transfer of prisoners to the new ward, all their communication with other wards would be cut off.
It has been built next to the ward for prisoners carrying out penal labour and on the area of the prison’s main bath on two floors; one for the prisoners of the military court and the ground floor for political and religious prisoners.
Also, the control and jamming systems in this ward are stronger than the previous one.
The names of all 47 prisoners of conscience are as follows:
Sirvan Hosseini Asl, Saman Hosseini Asl, Mohyeddin Tazehvared, Davoud Jabbari, Sirvan Amini, Amin Delneshin, Yaser Sharafaddin, Khaled Fereydouni, Arsalan Khodkam, Hossein Osmani, Mohyeddin Mollah-Ebrahimi, Dara Rashidi, Keyvan Rashozadeh, Kamran Ghasemi, Kamel Sidan Maskan, Anvar Chaleshi, Mohammad Saeidi, Towfiq Abdollahi, Mohammad Hosseinpour, Khosrow Zarestan, Seyyed Aram Aminol-Eslam, Farshad Fattahi, Hamed Ali Mohammad Mashkouh, Mokhtar Ebrahimi, Rahmat Daryabandeh, Siavash Javan, Mohsen Mahali, Taher Hosseinzadeh, Behzad Talaei, Hemin Chawshin, Behrouz Brakhas, Houshang Chamanbar, Hedayat Soleimanzadeh, Nayeb Askari, Ali Mohammadi Moghadam, Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi, Hamed Ghareh-Aghlani, Sardar Ozmash, Mohammad Birdal, Sakar Eini, Mohammad Houshangi, Farzad Samani, FiroUz Musalou, Shaker Behrouzi Dizaj, Keyhan Mokarram, Hatam Ozdamir, Mehdi Saaneh Farshi
