3 guards jailed for cooperating with prisoners

Three Evin prison guards have been imprisoned after being charged with cooperating with political prisoners held in the notorious detention centre.

The soldiers were detained and taken to ward 2 Alef of Evin prison for having cooperated with imprisoned writer Mohammad Nourizad and senior reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh.

Informed sources have told the Green Voice of Freedom that the soldiers, who are currently fulfilling their military service at Evin prison, are Shahin Attar, Soheil Rouhandeh and Hamidreza Mohammadi. The three are currently part of the counter-intelligence directorate at Evin prison. It would appear that the soldiers’ main “crime” was their decent and humane treatment of filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad and prominent member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) Mostafa Tajzadeh in quarantine.

While in prison, articles and letters written by the two Green Movement activists regularly leaked through prison walls and were later published by opposition websites such as the Green Voice of Freedom and the Mousavi-affiliated Kaleme.com. Yet the articles were either passed on to family members during prison visits or simply written during prison leaves and published when the men had returned to prison.

Ward 2 Alef of Evin prison, where the three soldiers are being held, is under the control of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s elite fighting force which acts separately from the regular army. The IRGC was also involved in the crackdowns on protesters following the fraudulent presidential election in June 2009.

Source: GVF