According to reports, Reza Joushan asked one of the guards why he was not permitted to visit the prison clinic. The guard replied that he must await his turn because prisoners can only visit the clinic once every two months.
Reza Joushan protested against the lack of medical treatment, and as a result, Gerami, the manager of the prison, paid him a visit on August 10th. Reza Joushan described his eye problems to Gerami, but nothing has been done yet to remedy the situation.
Reza Joushan is detained in ward 6 subsection 17 of Rajai Shahr prison since four months ago. He is kept in isolation and is denied visitation or contact with his family.
Mohebbi, a Ministry of Intelligence officer and also the chief interrogator who serves as the director for the IRGC division at Rajai Shahr prison, has ordered the arrest of students, labour and women activists, and participants in the uprising in Karaj. Mohebbi often leads the raids of arresting activists. He is personally in charge of the interrogation and torture of detainees in the IRGC section of the prison.
Reza Joushan was arrested on December 1, 2009 when Ministry of Intelligence agents raided his home. He was taken to solitary confinement in the IRGC division of the prison, and after two months, he was transferred to ward 4.
On December 7, 2009, Ministry of Intelligence agents raided his home and arrested his mother Zahra Assadpour. She was detained in a solitary confinement cell in the IRGC division of the prison. After weeks of interrogations and physical and psychological torture, she was moved to the women’s ward of Rajai Shahr prison. Zahra Assadpour was previously arrested along with her daughter Fatemeh Joushan for visiting family in Iraq’s Camp Ashraf (the camp is run by Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahedin of Iran). Zahra Assadpour and Fatemeh Joushan were imprisoned for 14 months in Rajai Shahr prison.
Zahra Assadpour and her son Reza Joushan were brought to the Revolutionary Court on February 8, 2010. They were issued a sentence of one year imprisonment in Zanjan and four years exile in the Ghaylar village close to Zanjan (a province in north western Iran).
Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran condemns the inhumane treatment of political prisoners in Iran and considers the denial of medical care for prisoners and the visitation bans as crimes.
We call on the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international authorities to take action to end the crimes committed by Ali Khamenei’s regime in Iran.
Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran
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