Mehdi Motamedi Mehr Sent to Hospital from Rajai Shahr Prison

HRANA News Agency – Mehdi Motamedi Mehr, political prisoner in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj and member of the Political Bureau of the Freedom Movement of Iran, was sent to the hospital for examination and investigation of his heart disease.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mehdi Motamedi Mehr, a member of the Political Bureau of the Freedom Movement of Iran, was transferred from Rajai Shahr prison to the hospital for examination and investigation of his heart disease.
Motamedi was arrested in March 2012 to serve a sentence of five years in prison.
He was arrested for the first time in April 2009, for participating in the regulation and publishing a statement demanding international supervision in the tenth presidential election and after 45 days in solitary confinement he was released on the bail. The second time, he was arrested after the events of Ashura in 2009, on the charge of participating in the rally, and after about two months he was released.
He was finally sentenced to five years imprisonment at a closed trial without a jury, presided by Judge Moghiseh. He was charged with membership in the “Iran Freedom Movement”, “participating at the gathering in Ashura 2009” and “Election Campaign”. The sentence was sent to Branch 54 of Appeals and was precisely upheld.
This political activist was re-arrested in March 2012 to endure his imprisonment sentence and was transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.

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