Student Activist Abruptly Transferred From Rajaee Shahr Prison Along With 200 Others

Abdolali Madadzadeh, father of imprisoned student activist Shabnam Madadzadeh, spoke recently with the international Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his daughter’s transfer from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, to Gharchak Prison in Varamin, on Tuesday evening without explanation. According to her sentence, Madadzadeh is to spend her prison term in exile at Rajaee Shahr Prison. Abdolali Madadzadeh, whose son Farzad Madadzadeh is also in prison, told the Campaign that he is shocked by the abrupt transfer. “Her mother traveled from Tabriz to Karaj yesterday to visit with her daughter, but she was not allowed to visit her. Authorities told her that they were transferring them to Gharchak Prison, and did not allow a visitation. Since yesterday, we are confused about what this means. This morning Shabnam called us for just one minute to tell me what happened. They allowed her to make a one-minute phone call and let us know,” said Abdolali Madadzadeh.

“None of the female prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison are well,” Says Activist’s Father

The father of imprisoned student activist Shabnam Madadzadeh, expressed concern about her condition in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Shabnam and other political prisoners, none of them are well; they are not well physically or psychologically. They do not have [access to] water, or their water is cold. hey only have one bath. They are among all kinds of women, hooligans, addicts and murderers. This is the situation of my daughter and the rest of the political prisoners,” Abdolali Madadzadeh said. Shabnam Madazadeh is being held in the Women’s Ward of Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj.

Massoud Bastani: 500 Days in Prison Without a Single Hour of Furlough

Five hundred days have passed since journalist Massoud Bastani was arrested and imprisoned. His wife, Mahsa Amrabadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she hopes her husband will be allowed furlough and that his situation will improve if a UN Human Rights Commission envoy is dispatched to Iran.

No Information About Detained Women’s Rights Activist

(21 January 2010) Iranian judicial and prison authorities have refused to release any information about charges against women’s rights activist Somayeh Rashidi (24), who was arrested on 19 December 2009, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today.

During the past two months, over a thousand people have been detained through the use of a blanket detention order, which is effectively a license for security and intelligence agents to arrest anyone at will. Hundreds of these detainees, similar to Somayeh Rashidi, have disappeared into Iranian prisons without any information available to their families or lawyers.