A political prisoner in critical condition at Borazjan prison

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Reza Seifzadeh Pezashkan, who has been in exile since October last year in Borazjan prison, is in poor inappropriate condition.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mohammad Reza Seifzadeh Pezashkan was exiled in early September last year, from Evin prison to Borazjan prison, now he is held in the ward for common crimes, in a harsh condition.
One of his relatives told HRANA’s reporter, “Mohammad Seifzadeh is deprived even of minimum of life conditions. His family lives in Tehran and from more than a year ago, when he was exiled to Borazjan prison, Sana, his little daughter and only child, has not been able, even once, to visit his father.”
He continued: “The distance between Tehran and Borazjan is nearly 1200 Kilometers and families, regardless which city they come from, do not have time more than 20 minutes to talk through the glass and by handset.”
On 22nd May 2011, he was arrested and charged with “acting against national security” by supporting MEK and contact with foreign News websites, and on 17th September same year, he was released on Bail.
After that, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in exile by Judge Pirabbasi in Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In September 2014 in order to continue serving his sentence he was transferred from ward 350 of Evin prison and, for failing to pay a transfer fee, he was transferred to the ward 209 of Evin prison.
Mr. Seifzadeh Pezeshkan, is one of the Eighties political prisoners who had been in prison  for 4 years from 1982 to 1986, he is 43 years old and father of a 14-year-old girl.

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