Intelligence Agents Threatened Saman Nasim of Being Executed
16-December-2014
Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement – Ministry of Intelligence agents threatened Saman Nasim, political prisoner of Uremia prison that if he does not end hunger strike, his death sentence will be carried out.
According to the report of “Breathing in Confinement”, intelligence service in the city of Marivan on Wednesday, 10th December, summoned Saman Nasim’s brother in order to tell his brother that if he does not end his hunger strike, he will be executed.
In this regards, one his relatives told “Breathing in Confinement’s” reporter; “In a telephone call, Saman’s brother explained the problem to him and Mr. Nasim in reply, stated that: ‘Hunger strike is my legal right and I will not sit right back’.”
Saman Nasim was transferred to prison infirmary today, because of low blood pressure and physical weakness, but refused to take IV fluid from nurses.
On the other hand, in the morning of 14th December, two other prisoners on hunger strike named; Alireza Rasoli and Ali Afshari were summoned and threatened by Mr. Nobakht Mokhtari, the Warden of the central prison of Uremia, too.
According to an informed source, the warden of Uremia prison has told these two political prisoners that; “if they do not end their hunger strike, it will cost them too much!”
It is worth mentioning that Ali Afshari has been sentenced to death and on 10th December, while he had been transferred to hospital, due to health deterioration, was threatened to death by the escort officer with a firearm.
Also, Ahmad Tamooi and Shooresh Afshari, two other political prisoners on hunger striker were transferred to prison’s infirmary due to their physical condition. These 2 political prisoners rejected to take IV fluid injection by medical doctors and were returned to their ward.
At the meantime, Khazar Rasoli Rad, Mohamad Abdullahi and Sirwan Nezhavi are in critical condition.
That is to say, currently 24 political prisoners of ward 12 in Uremia prison are on hunger strike.
On 20th November, these prisoners started their hunger strike to protest at “dissolution of political prisoners’ ward” and “pressures from the Ministry of Intelligence on the prisoners and their families.”