Today is 31 July 2016, Mr. Kazemeini
Boroujerdi’s birthday. He is a religious researcher and metaphysics theoritian
who has become 58 years old but still serving his jail sentence innocently. Ten
years ago on 8 October 2006, he were arrested along with his family and
followers and jailed in Evin prison because of advocating separation of
religion from state. Although he consequently was sentenced to 10 years jail,
but after about 11 years, he is still jailed in very harsh situation with
different tortures and injustice. Following, a brief of his dossier and his
last physical conditions as well as the situation of his ward in the Evin
prison is described:
The Case:
• It’s now ten years of his captivity in the
prisons of Islamic regime of Iran; so far he has endured 440 days in notorious
solitary confinement cells of Evin prison. During his imprisonment, he was
always deprived of proper medication and treatment, and different types of
mental and physical torture have been used against him in addition to the
mental torture because of threats and pressures from the government on his
family out of the prison.
• Mr. Boroujerdi’s trials have been closed and
he never had the right to have an independent lawyer. Furthermore, his
sentences have been verbally announced to him. For giving any notice of his
sentence, he is taken to the Special Court of Clergy or sometimes the officers
and prosecutors go to his cell and orally announce the last court decisions.
• For
example, on 12 April 2015, Mohammad Movahedi the special clergy prosecutor,
went to his cell and verbally accused him to "heresy and religious
interpretations contrary to the views of the leadership" and as a result,
Mr. Boroujerdi was transferred to solitary confinement and was kept for 44 days
in quarantine of executions with chained arms and legs. Thereafter he was banned
of phone calls for seven months.
• The authorities of the special court of
clergy and the prison officials have not provided any clear response regarding
Mr. Boroujerdi's case to his family, but instead in order to stop tracking the
case, his family has been threatened.
• Prison officials and the Special Court of Clergy
intentionally deprived him of the right to have proper medication and treatment
and so far not a single hour is granted to him as furlough or medical leave. The
purpose of this torture is to force him to write repentance letters. This is while
any prisoner has the right to leave not only in normal situations, but also to
be given emergency medical leave for treatment. In addition, based on the
Prison Regulations Act, prisoners have the right to enjoy at least three days
leave per month.
• On the other hand, according to the rules, by
consideration the months of being detained and not being allowed to use his
leave, he had to be released in last April.
• Also according to the statement of the
regime’ leader that "a single day in solitary confinement should be
calculated as ten days in usual jail", Mr. Boroujerdi by taking 440
days in solitary confinement has a total of twenty years period of jail.
Furthermore, although his sentence is finished, the authorities of Special
Court of clergy still kept him under detention without dossiers and completely
undecided, while he should have been released a few months ago.
Mr. Boroujerdi suffers from a number of
diseases and critical conditions which the most important are as follows:
• Poor eyesight, loss of 90% of sight in one
eye
• Nodules on the thyroid gland, which causes
pain in the throat and difficulty in breathing, to the extent that he had
strangled throws and he should cough so much to be able to breathe.
• Heart disease, followed by lung embolism and
respiratory problems, along with being prevented of drug administration
• Shake of hands, whose cause is unknown
• Discomfort of kidney stones, although his
kidney has been scanned by the old machine in the clinic of Evin prison and it
was diagnosed that both kidneys containing stones, but no medication has
prescribed for it which caused the prisoner patient to dispose the kidney
stones with severe pain and bleeding several times.
• Because of consumption of contaminated food
being used in the prison, he suffers from digestive problems as well as a
stomach problem such as stomach ulcer. According to Mr. Boroujerdi, his food was
contained unknown toxins or chemicals for several times.
• Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and rickets,
which causes weak bones and bowed legs and led him to fall several times during
a day.
• Strong Edema in legs that is very painful, so
that in some cases he does not have the ability to walk.
• Destruction of his teeth due to lack of
access to a dentist.
• Prostate disease.
A report on especial ward for cleric prisoners
where Mr. Boroujerdi in jailed:
• Special cleric ward of Evin prison is divided
to two parts, the large section and the small section. Clerics who are
sentenced due to financial crimes, addiction and corruption are jailed in the
large section. Mr. Boroujerdi is detained in the small section containing totally
about 7 or 8 prisoners. The section is consisting of 2 small rooms plus a
corridor between the rooms, a small kitchen, a bathroom and two toilets.
• The prisoners in this section are under
permanent monitoring; since a camera is installed in the bathroom, so the
prisoners are being monitored even while washing themselves! Mr. Boroujerdi is always
one of the protesting prisoners to this situation.
• The only communication tool for the prisoners
of this section is a corded telephone which unlike other sections has been
located outdoor, so they have serious problems to call their relatives
especially during the snowy cold air in winter as well as hot days of summer.
Despite of being requested by the prisoners, this is not relocated indoor yet.
• This section is also located close to the security
office of the prison and the prisoners are being 24-hours monitored with
multiple cameras.
• Sometimes the prisoners with murder
and drug offenses or those having dangerous or infectious diseases such as
tuberculosis are transferred to this section which is very dangerous for the
health of other prisoners.
• This section is not categorized based on the
prisoners’ crimes. Mr. Boroujerdi is the only long-term political prisoner of
conscience who is jailed in this section.
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In conclusion, the most right violations
against Mr. Boroujerdi have been highlighted in this letter. Despite his period
of jail sentence is already finished, the authorities of special court of
clergy have detained him without any legal reason and completely undecided
although he is in a critical physical situation, so it is clear that they are
intentionally ignoring the risk of his death. Therefore the representatives of
Mr. Boroujerdi together with his family are requesting for clarification on his
last situation and his unconditional release.
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