Zahra Asadpour & Reza Joshan, sentenced to prison for going to visit relatives in Ashraf

According to reports, on February 8, political prisoner Zahra Asadpour Gorji, 51, and her son Reza Joshan, 25, were taken to the first branch of the Revolutionary Court and sentenced to one year of prison in exile to be served in Zanjan Prison and 4 years of exile to the Gheilar Village in Zanjan by Asef Hosseini, the head of this branch.

Political prisoner Zahra Asadpour suffers from severe heart problems and high blood pressure and had an operation before her arrest.

Mrs. Asadpour was arrested on December 7 after an attack by agents of this Ministry. She was thrown in a solitary cell in section 8 in Gohardasht Prison which belongs to the intelligence agency. She was under torture and interrogated for several weeks by a man named Mohebi, head interrogator for the Intelligence Agency. This political prisoner and her son were arrested before this and imprisoned for 16 months in Gohardasht Prison for visiting their relative in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

Reza Jushan, her 25 year old son was arrested on December 1 and thrown in solitary in section 8 of this prison which is known as the RGC section. He was kept in solitary for close to 2 months and was then transferred to section 4.

Attacks against students, political activists and families are carried out by Mohebi. He is a head interrogator in the intelligence agency in section 8. This ward is made up of solitary cells like Evin Prison's section 209 and is under the control of the Ministry of Intelligence. Mohebi, interrogates and tortures political prisoners in this section in addition to threatening and abusing families (of political activists). (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Feb. 15, 2010)