Mohammad Saber Malek Reisi, A Teenager Who Became Adult in the Prison

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Saber Malek Reisi, Baloch political prisoner, was arrested at age of 15 and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The “juvenile political prisoner” was the title that was used in the news at the time of arrest for him. But he is not a juvenile anymore and is right now in his seventh year of imprisonment in exile, in Ardebil prison. He has been deprived of family visits or contacting them for months and years, and is supposed to spend his younger years behind bars in exile and in the most difficult conditions.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi was arrested at the age of 15 on September 24, 2009, and after enduring one year detention in the Intelligence office in Zahedan and the Central Prison of this city, he was tried by the Revolutionary Court and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in exile.
Then he was deported to Urmia prison and after many months of his transfer, he was denied the opportunity to meet and contact his family.
Earlier, one of the relatives of this political prisoner had told HRANA’s reporter: “Mohammad Saber is one of youngest political prisoners. He has done no crime and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment without access to a lawyer jut to return his brother back to Iran. After the events in May 2012 in Zahedan prison, which ended with beating him and sending him to exile to various cities, his family has not had any news about his condition.”
In a report HRANA had released his sentence and his handwritten letters to his family, announcing that this prisoner was kept in Ardabil prison and the other prisoners sent those letters to his family.
Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi was arrested along with his two brothers, following his brother, Abdulrahman, disassociate with the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic. Ministry of Intelligence officials went to their parents’ house and said if their child would not hand himself in, then they would execute their other 3 children in prison.
After follow-up by his relatives and elders, two brothers were released on a bail of seventy million tomans, after four months, but the younger brother was sentenced to a bitter fate and after the teenage years in the toughest conditions in detention centers of the Ministry of Intelligence, prison and exile, he is now spending his younger years in prison in his seventh year of imprisonment in exile in Ardabil prison. This teenager was charged with collaborating with enemy groups of the regime.

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