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In tonight’s program we will look at the conditions in Iran’s political prisons and find out why the Iranian regime does not allow any international human rights investigators to visit the prisons.
Once again certain people have begun to talk aboutanother upcoming election in Iran while the tension with US is escalating.
We will look at the latest comments from the British officials dealing with Iran affairs after the election of Boris Johnson as UK’s new prime minister.
Our guest tonight to discuss these issues is Mr Mohammad Nourizad who has just been released from prison.
Mohammad Nourizad:
With my warm greetings to all my Iranian compatriots, especially our political prisoners, I pray for their immediate release as there are many people in our political jails that we have not even heard their names and I hereby call on the Iranian regime to free them from its dungeons without any conditions.
Our political prisoners are suffering very badly under inhumane conditions, while they do not know if they will be sentenced to death or not.
I was jailed on charges of “insulting the supreme leader” because I have signed the open letter with 13 other compatriots asking for his resignation, as our country cannot simply continue like this.
I was jailed in Evin in the ward that houses around 120 prisoners as young as 18 who are there because they have failed to pay the dowry to their former spouses after a divorce. This ward is one of the saddest and most unbearable parts of Evin as you come across people who have been jailed because they are poor.
They do not keep drug related prisoners in Evin and send them to Fashafoyeh prison, which is like a detention center of the 19th century, and a squalid place. It is just a disaster to be in prison in Iran.
You may like to know that inside the wards of Evin prison you can find foreign exchange dealers and people who would sell you mobile phones and people connected to the Revolutionary Guards and its intelligence unit run their entire business.
I did protest at the prison officers who treated me badly without respecting any laws that protect the rights of prisoners. They were all asking for bribe to handle me properly and provide me with proper food. They even asked me to take off my clothes to humiliate me and told me they were suspicious that I was hiding heroin in my pockets!!
The regime’s courts are simply the stage for killing you with anxiety and facing injustice while everyone involved in running them would ask you for a bribe so you can avoid the trauma.
