Hadi Rostami, a prisoner convicted of the amputation of four fingers of his right hand, was transferred to solitary confinement on 18 January after going on a hunger strike to protest against a prison official’s threats to execute his sentence.
Saeidzadeh, the head of Ward 2 of Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan province, has been repeatedly summoning the prisoner and threatening him with the execution of his sentence, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
After handing over his hunger strike letter to the security office inside the prison, the prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement by order of the prison officials.
Rostami was arrested on 25 August 2017 in Orumiyeh, along with two other civilians, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharafian.
Rostami had previously written a letter addressed to the Amnesty Commission of Iran and the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, saying that he had been “tortured” by the Ministry of Intelligence.
“I, Hadi Rostami, have been sentenced to the amputation of four fingers of my right hand and payment of several billion [Iranian Tomans] worth of restitution of property under case number 100403 at Branch 1 of the Criminal Court of West Azerbaijan province. I have been in prison for five years now. I have been severely tortured in the offices of the intelligence ministry in several cities, including Orumiyeh, Ardabil, and Bandar-e Anzali”, said the prisoner in his letter.
Rostami further stated in his letter that he knew nothing about 20 of the 28 theft incidents mentioned in his case and that the court had ordered the “brutal” amputation of four fingers of his right hand, regardless of his defence in the court.
His sentence was upheld by the Branch 13 of the Supreme Court of Iran, which then referred it to the Enforcement of Judgments Office of the Branch 8 of the Public and Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh for execution.
Rostami, 35, is the father of two and comes from Ilam, western Iran.
