Great Tehran Penitentiary Imposes
Information Blackout on Eight Sufi Detainees Held in Solitary Confinement
ادامه بیخبری از هشت درویش گنابادی و
نگرانی خانوادههای زندانیان از سکوت مقامات قضایی
OCTOBER 12, 2018
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi
Dervish held in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has heard from her
husband after he was put in solitary confinement with seven other Sufi
detainees.
Faezeh Abdipour said judicial officials have refused to provide
any information about her husband Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam and his fellow
inmates Reza Entesari, Kasra Nouri, Morteza Kangarlou Bilchi, Sina Entesari,
Mehdi Eskandari, Amir Nouri and Hessam Moini.
The information blackout began after the detainees were moved into
solitary confinement for allegedly taking part in a sit-in protest inside the facility on August 29, 2018, to demand the
release of Sufi women being held in Gharchak Prison in Southern Tehran.
“They were badly beaten when they were put into solitary
confinement and were not given any treatment, clothes or blankets,” Abdipour
told CHRI. “The families tried to get these items to them but the authorities
didn’t allow it and said the prisoners have to buy whatever they need from the
prison store, which is very expensive.”
“Instead of caring about the lives of human beings, they’re
thinking about doing business,” she added.
