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Iranwire – Shops and businesses in the Iranian city of Semirom shut down on February 1 in a general strike protesting the transfer of two brothers on death row to solitary confinement.
Footage circulating online shows deserted streets and closed shops across the city, located in the central province of Isfahan, amid fear that Fazel and Mehran Bahramian could be at imminent risk of execution.
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اینترنت را در سمیرم آن قدر ضعیف کرده اند که ارسال این ویدیو ۴۵ ثانیه ای بیش از دو ساعت طول کشید#ایران #اصفهان pic.twitter.com/cexzyTyRVG— صدای اصفهان (@VIsfehan) January 31, 2024
The two brothers from Semirom were moved to solitary cells in Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison on January 29, four days after the Court of Appeals in Samirom confirmed their death sentences, according to IranWire sources.
They have been convicted of charges of “waging war against God and actions against national security” for their alleged involvement in the death of a member of the paramilitary Basij force during protests that rocked Iran in 2022-23.
The two other defendants in the case – a close relative named Younes Bahramian and another man named Dariush Saadi – received 16-year prison sentences each.
Morad Bahramian, the brother of the two convicts on death row, was among the hundreds of people killed by security forces during the nationwide protests.
A source told IranWire that the two prisoners have had no contact with their families for the past four days.
“These prisoners are denied the right to contact and meet their families. They have been told that any news related to these prisoners should not be published in the media,” the source said.
The four defendants in the case have been subjected to torture while in custody to extract confessions.
Fazel Bahramian is married and the father of a two-year-old boy. Before his arrest, he worked as a mechanic at an auto repair shop.
