Zahra Asadpour Gorji ,ailing female prisoner taken to unknown location

Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran

According to reports, political prisoner Zahra Asadpour Gorji was taken to an unknown location yesterday from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
This 51 year old political prisoner was transferred from the women's cellblock on April 11 to an unknown location. Her condition had become critical in the past few days to the point that she was not able to move the left side of her body and had nose bleeds. Before the new years break, doctors in the prison infirmary had requested an urgent medical leave for her critical heart problems but Mohebi, the head intelligence interrogator prevented her leave and told Mrs. Gorji that 'I will only agree with your corpse leaving this prison'. This political prisoner went on a hunger strike for more than six days in protest to the psychological pressure and threats of this interrogator against her, her family and her jailed son, Reza Jushan.
Reza Jushan, her son, has been transferred from the Sepah solitary cells to a solitary cell in cellblock 6 of Gohardasht Prison. Mohebi psychologically and physically tortured him in the Sepah solitary cell and Jushan suffered a severe knee injury as a result.
Mohebi has also increased his harassment of this family outside of prison. Yesterday Fereshteh Jushan was summoned to the Intelligence Agency and interrogated for more than an hour. She was subjected to psychological pressure and threatened with arrest. Mohebi told her that she was the one giving news on her mother and brother's condition to the media and that they would 'surely make a criminal record and arrange for her to get 2 to 3 years in prison'.
Reza Jushan, 25, was arrested on December 1, 2009 after intelligence agents raided his home. He was taken to solitary in the Sepah cellblock and was then taken to cellblock 4 after two months. On December 7, agents once again stormed his home and arrested Zahra Asadpour Gorji, his mother and transferred her to a solitary cell in the Sepah cellblock. She was taken to the women's cellblocks after weeks of interrogation and physical and psychological torture. Asadpour and her son were arrested before this for visiting their loved ones in Camp Ashraf in Iraq and were released 16 months later after serving their sentence. They were sentenced to 1 year of prison to be served in exile in Zanjan Prison and 4 years of exile to the Qeilar Village in Zanjan on February 8, 2010 by the first branch of the Revolutionary Court.