Saturday, 16 January 2016

A Political Prisoner Still Held In Solitary Confinement In Urumieh Prison

 Bahman Dalai Milan who was on hunger strike to protest the non-implementation of the principle of separation of offenses in Urumieh prison, is still being held in solitary confinements.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), another Prisoner, Raouf Mohammadali by the end of hunger strike came back to the ward after the favorable promise of the prison authorities. These two prisoner had been transferred to solitary confinement on 31 December.
Dalai and Maohammadali who are kept at ward 5 in Urumieh prison called as “psychotherapy ward”, had demanded prison authorities to transfer them to political prisoners’ ward.
HRANA’s sources have said that these two prisoners had declared a hunger strike after the authorities’ ignorance to their demand and since 31 December had been transferred to solitary confinement on the order of the Warden after insisting on the issue.
Bahman Dalai Milan was arrested in 2006 on charges including acting against national security and was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment. He was held in Mariwan Prison until 2010 and then was transferred to Khoy Prison and on November 1, 2015 was transferred to Urumia Prison.
Rauf Mohamadali has also been charged with acting against national security.

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