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Iran-HRM – In a message from a prison in northern Iran, Iranian jailed activist Golrokh Iraee said that she would refuse phone calls and family visits to protest mistreatment of prisoners.
In a brief message from Amol Prison, Ebrahimi, a writer and human rights activist, declared that since the women detainees in Amol Prison are deprived of their minimum rights, she will refuse to make phone calls and go for visitations – which are interrupted every time by the guards’ insults– until the current miserable condition is ended.
In her message, Ebrahimi Iraee said, “the prisoners’ basic rights are offered to them as a privilege accompanied by insults and annoying tone.”
Iranian jailed activist Golrokh Iraee was sent to exile to the Prison of Amol on January 24, 2021. On that day, she had just returned to Qarchak Prison after 43 days of interrogation at the IRGC Intelligence Ward 2A in Evin Prison. But she did not even find the opportunity to take her personal belongings and warm clothing with her.
There have been numerous reports of prisoners across Iran complaining the deplorable conditions under which they are being held.
In the women’s ward of Amol Prison, some 50 prisoners are detained in two rooms. Most of them are convicted on drug-related charges, and some have hepatitis. There is no quarantine to hold the new arrivals, and there is a high risk of infection in this prison.
In a February letter from Rajaei Shahr of Karaj, human rights activist Arash Sadeghi rang alarm bells over the deteriorating situation of his wife Golrokh Iraee, fellow political prisoners who are at risk of contracting COVID-19, as well as those who’ve been transferred to prisons that are far from their families and friends.
“The prisoners are increasingly in danger of attracting the coronavirus because new prisoners who enter the facility are not quarantined,” wrote Sadeghi, who served about five years behind bars since 2016 for engaging in peaceful activism. Sadeghi was released on May 1, 2021.
In his letter Sadeghi detailed the inhuman treatment of his wife Golrokh Iraee, who has been in and out of prison in Iran since 2016 after being arrested for having an unpublished story about stoning in her home.
Sadeghi’s letter, dated February 3, 2021, addresses the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
On December 13, 2020, some 20 Qarchak Prison guards attacked Ward 8 and brutalized the inmates. They violently took away Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee to send her to Ward 2A of Evin.
Iranian jailed activist Golrokh Iraee had previously served three years in prison since 2016 when she was arrested for writing an unpublished story against the cruel punishment of stoning. During this time, she was violently transferred to Qarchak Prison. Prison authorities returned her to Evin only after an 81-day hunger strike, leading her to the verge of death.
She was released in April 2019 but arrested again on November 9, 2019, and transferred to Qarchak Prison to serve 25 months of imprisonment.
On November 2, 2020, dangerous inmates incited and hired by Qarchak Prison’s warden assaulted Golrokh Ebrahimi and Zahra Safaei with the intent to kill.
