HRANA News Agency – Three political prisoners who are kept in Minab prison, have been sentenced to a total of 100 years. Three Kurdish political prisoners, “Mohammadhossein Rezaei”, “Kamal Sharifi” and “Afshin Sohrabzadeh” were sentenced respectively to 45, 30 and 25 years in prison and have been exiled to Minab prison long ago.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), all three of these prisoners are kept with non-political criminals against the principle of separation of offenses.
Minab prison with a capacity of 1,000 prisoners and an insufficient number of political prisoners have no special section for political prisoners.
Difficulty of meeting with the family due to long distances and high costs, lack of facilities and lack of separation of prisoners are the problems which these three prisoners have complained about it regularly.
Mohammadhossein Rezaei
Mohammad (Khosro) Hossein Rezaei, 31, was arrested along with several others in a village in Sanandaj in 2011.
He was arrested on charges of membership in the Kurdish parties and clashes with the IRGC and was detained in Intelligence Office of Sanandaj and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards intelligence forces, for several months and then was transferred to Central Prison of Sanandaj. The prisoner was tried on charges of Muharebeh through membership in Kurdish parties in the revolutionary court of Sanandaj headed by Judge Babaei on August 11, 2012.
On September, 20 2012, the verdict of 30 years imprisonment and exile to Minab prison was issued for him. Mohammad Hossein Rezai, later was sentenced to 15 years in prison due to a previously open case on charges of acting against national security and in total he has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
This prisoner was sent from Sanandaj Central Prison to Minab prison after finalizing the verdict in April 2013 and has been since then kept in this prison.
Kamal Sharifi
Kamal Sharifi, born in October 1972, was arrested in the city of Saghez, and was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in branch 1 of the revolutionary court, presided by Judge Shayegh.
He went on a long-term hunger strike in prison to protest at his condition in Minab prison in 2008. After the hunger strike Kamal Sharifi was experiencing gastrointestinal problems and prison infirmary did nothing for his treatment.
Kamal Sharifi, who is held in Minab prison along with criminal prisoners, was arrested in 1989 and 1990 on several occasions with charges of supporting and working for the Kurdish parties, and eventually in the Revolutionary Court, in Saghez, had been sentenced to one year of imprisonment and 40 lashes.
Afshin Sohrabzadeh
Afshin Sohrabzadeh, 24, from Kermanshah was arrested by the IRGC intelligence agents of Kamyaran on June 8, 2010 and was transferred to Central Prison of Sanandaj after interrogation at the Intelligence Office of Kamyaran. He then was exiled to Minab Prison from Sanandaj Prison in 2012.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and exile to Minab Prison on charges of “Muharebeh through membership in Kurdish parties” in a 5-minute-long trial in branch 2 of Sanandaj court.
Mr. Sohrabzadeh who is suffering from colon cancer was transferred to Evin prison for medical care in 2015 and was returned to Minab prison without care because of the high costs of the treatment (185 million tomans) after some months.
This prisoner who experiences difficulties in Minab prison, wrote in a letter to Mr. Ahmed Shaheed: “As far as I remember, before the arrest, I was in perfect health but I was severely tortured in the intelligence office and my nose was fractured and my hernia was torn as a result of severe blows inflicted by the intelligence agents.”