Prisoner in beaten up for befriending political prisoners

According to the son of Rajai Shahr political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, a regular prisoner was severely beaten up in the jail. He was accused of having telephone numbers for political prisoners and was banned from prison leave to visit his family for the new year celebrations.

Ali Tabarzadi said that one of his incarcerated father’s ward mates who is a non-political prisoner was accused of befriending political prisoners and being in possession of their phone numbers. Prison officials beat him up using electric batons and banned him from leaving prison on furlough for the new year celebrations.

According to Kalame, the son of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi who is the imprisoned leader of the Iran Democratic Party, said to the International Human Rights Campaign in Iran, “One of my father’s former ward mates who is not a political prisoner was accused of having telephone numbers for my father’s home and that of (political prisoner) Isa Saharkhiz’s home in his pocket. He was subsequently barred from prison furlough and severely beaten up. Camyar Dahpahlavan spent time with my father in the same prison ward. Very often friendships are forged between political and non-political prisoners in the same ward. My father and Mr. Dah Pahlavan became friends then my father was transferred to another ward in the prison. Now I hear that when Mr. Dah Pahlavan was about to leave prison on furlough to celebrate the (Persian) New Year with his family, he was subjected to a body search. He was accused of being in possession of my father’s, and Isa Saharkhiz’s phone numbers. Then the prison officials tortured him using electrical batons and denied him prison leave.”

Ali Tabarzadi, the son of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi continued, “Mr. Dahpahlavan is not doing well. He is having great trouble sleeping at nights because they beat his head with the electric batons.”

Human Rights House of IRAN