HRANA News Agency – Mahmoud Beheshti Langeroudi, imprisoned teacher, chose to relinquish his right to prison visit by not wearing a prison uniform in order to “protect his dignity and integrity as a human and as an imprisoned teacher and teachers’ union activist”. While the imprisoned teacher’s family were waiting in the visitation hall holding a permit from the prosecutor’s office, he refused to wear the prison uniform and has called the insistence of the authorities of Ward 7 on him to wear the prison uniform illegal.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mahmoud Beheshti’s family were present on time at the prison for the private visitation which is only allowed once a month, and after the routine procedure and about one and half hour of waiting in the visitation hall, prison authorities notified them that the visit had been cancelled. Continue reading “Imprisoned Teacher Prohibited of Visiting his Family”