Five Political Prisoners Transferred to Solitary Confinement

RAHANA
Five political prisoners (two of them are on death row) have been transferred to solitary confinement cells in ward 240 of Evin prison.

Ahmad Karimi, Nasser Abdolhosseini, and Hesam Tarmasi are among the prisoners who have been transferred to solitary confinement cells under the order of Bozorgnia, the director in ward 350 of Evin prison. The [transferred] prisoners were on hunger strike this past Saturday and Sunday in protest to the conditions in their ward. They sang revolutionary songs like Yar-e Dabestani (My classmate) and Ey Iran (a famous Iranian anthem) to insist on their entitlement to a minimum [amount of] their human rights [recognized]. Some prisoners told their families during the weekly Monday visits that they took part in the protest while wearing green wristbands.

According to the Kaleme website and families of political prisoners detained in ward 350, some prisoners were still wearing green wristbands when they visited with their families, and they resisted the demands of the prison guards to remove them.

Based on this report, political prisoners in ward 350 played a game of soccer against the team “financial prisoners,” and they won. After their victory, ward 350 prisoners lifted their shirts. A picture of Mir Hossein Mousavi was exposed, drawn on paper by artist prisoners. The act was followed by loud cheers by prisoners.

Bozorgnia has adopted restrictive measures against prisoners in order to punish them. Some measures include depriving [prisoners] from making phone calls, closing the ward’s shop, and locking prisoners in their ward for several hours during daily breaks.

The prisoners in ward 350 have announced if their friends are not returned from the solitary cells, they will go on an indefinite hunger strike starting March 21, 2010 (Iranian New Year).

Ward 350 holds more than 150 of the prisoners arrested post-election 2009.
Translation by: Siavosh J. | Persian2English.com