Iran: Exacerbating Pressures on Political Prisoners

Saturday, 13 January 2018

On Wednesday, January 8, the political prisoner Ali Moezi was summoned to attend a show trial again. He refused to wear the prisoners’ uniform as before. The prison guards forcefully put the prison clothes on him and took him to the court with his hands and feet chained.

At the court, Ali Moazi protested against the guards repressive measures, took off the prison clothes, and refused to accept the lawyer appointed by the regime's judiciary. He told the executioner presiding the court that he did not recognize that show trial. Therefore, the so-called court was closed down. According to the regime’s judiciary orders, his sentence had ended two years ago, but the regime continued to keep him in jail under torture through repeated frame-up"

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