Condolences to all Iranian Political prisoners & Iranian people : unjust execution of Ali Saremi today

We have heard from sources that early this morning Ali Saremi, distinguished political prisoner who served a sentence during the time of the Shah as well as the present tyranny, was hanged today.

Saremi has spent a total of 23 years in prisons operated by either the Shah monarchy or the current Iranian regime. He was last arrested in the summer of 2007 for attending a ceremony that marked the 19th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of about 30,000 Iranian political prisoners. Saremi was sentenced to death on December 29, 2009.


He was known to be one of the eldest political prisoners well esteemed amongst others for his perseverance and courage to stand for FREEDOM under all circumstances.
He was supposedly charged to have participated in the Ashura protests , while he was serving prison during the protests of 2009 and was arrested long before the protests because he had been active in participating in Khavaran gatherings , reminding all of us the languish of families of those massacred by the same regime during the 1980s.

His second charge was that he had visited a relative in Camp Ashraf, home to 3400 PMPOI residents. His charges where never proved against International Law and reasoning and where only political excuses used by the weak regime to exert pressure on its opposition and their families.

He was an enchained hostage in the dampened dungeons of fundamentalist regime in power.
Despite this he was never silenced and was full of life and blooming in his fight against injustice.
His letters depict a resistant and resolved spirit that was engine to many other political prisoners.
Some letters were revelations of Prison conditions some only to say “NO” to torture and pressure , while he was under pressure and torture




Previous letters of revelation from Prison by Ali Saremi

In the name of God,

Since his [Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei] majesty’s accession to the throne, I have been in prison and I am unaware what is happening outside. However, in the same year when he was crowned, the price of 700 grams of dates were 1,250 tomans [approximately $1.25] but right now, the same amount of dates is sold for 3,700 tomans [approximately $3.70]. Similarly, to rent a house, we then paid a deposit of two million tomans [approximately two thousand USD] and the monthly rent was 70,000 tomans [approximately 70 USD), but nowadays, the required deposit has increased to 10 million tomans [approximately 10 thousand USD], and the monthly rent is 200 thousand tomans [approximately 200
USD].

At the same time when I was arrested, an interrogator claimed that
there were only a total of 80 political prisoners in the entire country. Right
now, there are more than 400 political prisoners only in Evin and Gohardasht
prisons. I don’t know about the rest of the country. Besides, in those years, a
few party insiders were politically active. Right now, even that does not exist.

It isn’t very difficult to determine under what conditions non-political
prisoners live. Once a prisoner arrives here, he has nothing but a little money
in his pocket and the clothing on his back. New prisoners spend one to three
days in an isolated ward where they receive a set of undergarments and a
disposable bowl and cup. However, when prisoners enter the general population in
the prison, they are given no clothing, dishes, cups, toothbrushes or
toothpaste. Prisoners must provide all these items for themselves.

All this is happening while the majority of the prisoners have no home, have been
estranged from their families, or their loved ones can’t financially support
them. Some of the prisoners suffer from mental problems or have illnesses that
render them incapacitated. The lives of these prisoners in need are
unfortunately pitiful. These prisoners eat their food out of plastic containers
cut from used milk jugs or cleaning agents.

Additionally, the number of prisoners is increasing every day due to the inability and incompetency of those managing the country. In year 2009, when I was transferred to Gohardasht prison in the city of Karaj, there were 500 prisoners in ward 4 where I am held. This year, the number of prisoners in the same ward has increased to 1,300 individuals, an increase of 2.5 times since a year ago by adding 60 prisoners to
the population of captives every month.

Gohardasht prison has eight wards to which 450 prisoners have been added in the last year. Since there are ten prisons in Tehran, it can be concluded that 4,500 additional citizens are incarcerated every month. Consequently, the prison population in Iran’s ten biggest cities is increasing by 45,000 individuals every month.

The question that all of us must ask is this: If this regime manages to survive a
few more years, what will happen to the Iranian people? In addition to narcotics
addiction, no hot water or other amenities are found in prisons.

Ali
Saremi

November 17, 2010

A letter Saremi Wrote after he learnt of his sentence:

In the name of God,

I have read once more in newspapers that the [regime’s] prosecutor has said that the death sentences of six PMOI supporters were confirmed and will soon be implemented.

The prosecutor must be asked: Have you really given this nation anything other than death, poverty, terror and batons over the past thirty one years that you have been in power?

Looking back at the events of the past 31 years, one would realize that
the execution of us six is not a novel and astonishing tale. This is the only
thing that you are capable of doing. Have you dreadful reactionaries brought
anything for the Iranian people other than death?

While you continue to subject this nation to humiliation, death, gloom and illusions, beware that the day of the people’s retribution is near. You are showered each night and day with the people’s hatred and abhorrence. Don’t think for a moment that people are ignorant and would forget the batons, chains, and knives, Kahrizak [notorious prison], the persistent murders, or plainclothes agents and thugs who rain down on people with batons.

On Judgment Day you will be standing beside the pharaohs, Nero, Genghis Khan, and others who have betrayed nations throughout history. It will not be long. Where will you so-called prosecutors who justify baseless sentences handed down by your so-called courts find a place among humans and Muslims?

This nation will not join hands with tyrants.
You have made life intolerable for people by creating plenty of empty dinner
tables, abandoned children, drug addiction, and jealousy. How dare you continue
to rule, talk and make promises? Are you not mortified? Shame on all of you.

Political prisoner Ali Saremi

بنام خدا
از زمانی که ایشون بر تخت جلوس فرموده اند بنده در زندان بسر می برم و از اوضاع بیرون از زندان بی خبرم ولی سال جلوس ایشان ما یک پاکت خرما 700 گرمی را می خریدیم 1250 تومان ولی اکنون آخرین خرید ما 3700 تومان بوده است. اجاره منزل ما 2 میلیون پول پیش قسط بوده و 70 هزار تومان اجاره ولی اکنون 10 میلیون پول پیش قسط و 200 هزار تومان اجاره ماهیانه است .
همان زمان که مرا دستگیر کردند به گفتۀ بازجو کل زندانیان سیاسی سراسر کشور 80 نفر بودند در حالی که اکنون فقط در زندان گوهردشت و اوین بیش از 400 نفر زندانی سیاسی می باشد در بقیه کشور هم خبری ندارم. در آن زمان تعدادی حزب خودی که فعالیت داشتند اکنون همانها هم وجود ندارند.
برآورد وضعیت زندانیهای غیر سیاسی زیاد دشوار نیست یک زندانی هنگامی که به زندان وارد می شود جزء مقداری پول در جیب و لباس تنش چیز دیگری ندارد. در قرنطینه زندان که معمولا از یک تا 3 روز طول می کشد یک دست لباس زیر و ظرف غذا و لیوان یک بار مصرف به هر نفر می دهند. ولی هنگامی که وارد بند می شوند نه از لباس خبری هست و نه از ظرف غذا و لیوان و مسواک و خمیر دندان و همۀ اینها را خود زندانی باید تهیه نماید.
این در حالی است که بسیاری از زندانیها خانه ندارند و یا از خانواده طرد شده اند و یا خانوادۀ آنها توان تامین مالی آنها را ندارند شماری از اینها دچار اختلالت روانی هستند و یا دچار بیماریهای هستند که نمی توانند خودشون را کنترل نمایند.
زندگی این نیازمندان بطور تاسفباری رقت انگیز است. غذای خود را داخل تکه ای پلاستیک و یا بریده ظرف شیری که دیگران خورده اند و یا بخشی از بریده یک دبۀ 4 لیتری مایع دستشویی پلاستیکی می گیرند و می خورند مظاف بر اینها افزایش روز افزون زندانیان می باشد. که در اثر ناتوانی مدیریت کلان کشور در ادارۀ آن است .آمار سال 88 که من به زندان گوهردشت منتقل شدم . آن زمان آمار زندانیهای بند ما (بند4 ) در حدود 500 نفر بودند امسال همان آبان ماه آمار زندانیهای بند ما 1300 نفرند یعنی ظرف یک سال بیش از 2.5 برابر شده اند ماهیانه بیش از 60 نفر به تعداد زندانیها افزوده می شود.
زندان گوهردشت 8 بند دارد که به همین نسبت به زندانیهای آنها نیز افزوده شده اند یعنی افزایش زندانی ظرف 1 سال در زندان گوهردشت بیش از 450 نفر بوده است با توجه به اینکه که در تهران بیش از 10 زندان وجود دارد پس افزایش زندان در تهران ماهیانه بیش از 4500 نفر می باشد و چون بیش از 10 شهر بزرگ در کشور وجود دارد افزایش زندانیها در ماه بیش از 45 هزار نفر می باشد .
حال باید پرسید اگر این حکومت خدای نکرده چند سال دیگر ادامه پیدا کند تکلیف مردم ایران چه خواهد بود؟ همۀ اینها جدای از مسئلۀ اعتیاد نبود آب گرم و غیره در زندان می باشد.
وسلام
علی صارمی
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