HRANA News Agency – Asadullah Asadi who was arrested again by the security forces in Tabriz, has been released shortly after his had been transferred to Tabriz prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Asadullah Asadi had been arrested when he attempted to carry and display protest banners around Tabriz market to protest the “violation of his rights by the Department of Education”, on 20^th January.
It is said that his arrest was with violence and he was beaten because of resistance and demanding an arrest warrant, and due to his complaint, he was transferred to forensics to be examined.
Mr. Asadi had been recently released from Evin prison.
He had been released from Evin prison about four months ago when he was on the medical furlough and his 5 years and 6 months imprisonment was over.
Doctor Asadullah Asadi, 51, is a resident of the city of Tabriz, retired employee of education Ministry and General practitioner (Health Doctor).
He was arrested by Tabriz intelligence officers in his way to work on 12^th July 2010, and after several months lack of contact with his family and being held in solitary confinement, in detention centers of Tabriz Intelligence office and ward 209 of Tehran Intelligence Office, he was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months imprisonment by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Moghiseh. The sentence was later reduced to five years and six months.
Mr. Asadi’s charges were announced as; cooperation with hostile governments and being a member of the MPRP.
One of the relatives of Asadullah Asadi, earlier had told HRANA’s reporter that; pressure and torture during 5 months of solitary confinement and interrogation in prison, made him suffer from imbalance mental health and serious problems, so that they agreed with his early freedom from prison. This prisoner had attempted suicide, due to increasing pressures in the prison in March 2011 in Evin prison. He was rescued by the other inmates.