Breathing in Confinement

Dozens of Sunni Prisoners Transferred to Solitary Confinements to Be Executed

2-August-2016

Category: religious minorities

Breathing in Confinement – Dozens of Sunni prisoners of ward 10 of Rajai Shahr Prison were taken to the solitary confinements after the prison guard raided the ward.

According to the report of “Breathing in Confinement”, 36 Sunni death row political prisoners of ward 10 of Rajai Shahr Prison were taken to solitary confinements with handcuffs, shackles and blindfolded last night.

Kave Veisi, Behrouz Shahnazari, Taleb Maleki, Shahram Ahmadi, Kave Sharifi, Arash Sharifi, Varya Ghaderifard, Keyvan Momenifard, Barzan Nasrollahzade, Alem Barmashti, Pourya Mohammadi, Ahmad Nasiri, Edris Nemati, Farzad Honarju, Seyed Shahu Ebrahimi, Mohammad Yavar Rahimi, Bahman Rahimi, Mokhtar Rahimi, Mohammad Gharibi, Farshid Naseri, Mohammad Keyvan Karimi, Amjad Salehi, Omid Peyvand, Ali Mojahedi, Hekmat Sharifi, Omar Abdollahi, Omid Mahmudi, Abdolrahman Sangani and Seyed Jamal Seyed Musavi are the 29 Sunni prisoners whose sentences have been sent to the executive branch.

The other 7 prisoners whose cases are still in the primary stage are: Ghasem Abeste, Davud Abdollahi, Kamran Sheykhe, Khosro Besharat, Ayub Karimi, Anvar Khezri and Farhad Salimi.

The families of these prisoners have been told to go to the prison for the last visit with their loved ones.