Prisoners of conscience Farshad Fattahi, Sardar Ozmash, Kamran Ghassemi, and Keyvan Rashozadeh who were beaten by special prison forces in Orumiyeh prison on 10 January, are held in handcuffs and fetters in solitary confinement.
Also, prisoners of conscience Sirvan Hosseini-Asl, Saman Hosseini-Asl, Davoud Jabbari, and Nayeb Askari who were transferred to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence on the same day, are still being held in detention, denied the right to contact their families.
Some of these prisoners were beaten by the special prison forces and injured in their arms, legs, chest, and head.
Rashozadeh was taken to the prison infirmary after a head fracture and was transferred to solitary confinement after his head was stitched.
In recent days, most of the political prisoners were transferred from solitary confinement to a new security ward.
Reportedly, all the personal belongings of the prisoners have been confiscated by the order of the director-general of the province’s prisons and the head of the prison, and despite the objections of the prisoners, their belongings have not been handed over to them yet.
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 prisoners ended their strike after meeting with the head of the prison who promised to pursue the matter and try not to relocate them to the new security ward.
Contrary to the promise of the prison head, on 10 January 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.
The high-security ward 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
