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| political prisoner Misaq Yazdan-Nejad |
Seven
weeks have passed since political prisoner Misaq Yazdan-Nejad was moved into an
isolated ward of Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, with the regime giving no
information during this time to his family about his state.
Mr.
Yazdan-Nejad is a relative of a member of the People's Mojahedin Organization
of Iran (PMOI or MEK) in Camp Liberty.
He
was arrested at his home on September 10, 2007 by agents of the regime's
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and sentenced by the
fundamentalist regime's kangaroo courts to 13 years in prison for attending a
ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of 30000 political
prisoners in Iran. At the time he was a linguistics student in Payam-e Nour
University.
On
October 26, Mr. Yazdan-Nejad was transferred out of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj,
ostensibly for medical treatment; but instead of taking him to a hospital, the
regime's agents transferred him to Ward 2A of Evin Prison, a notorious secluded
ward which is run by agents of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
He
has not been given visitation rights to see his family at Evin Prison.
Mr.
Yazdan-Nejad who has spent more than eight years in prison, including at least
eight months in solitary confinement, had previously been arrested for visiting
his sister, a member of the PMOI (MEK), in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
Misaq’s
father and mother have previously endured three years of imprisonment, and
three of his uncles were martyred by the regime for supporting the PMOI (MEK).
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