Posted on 06/22/2005 6:07:18 AM PDT by nuconvert
Police beat and arrest families of Akbar Ganji and Nasser Zarafshan
June 17, 2005
Police wielding clubs beat family members of journalist Akbar Ganji, including his wife and brother, the journalist Masud Bastiani, and two members of the Association of Iranian writers on 16 June 2005.
They had been taking part in a sit-in organised by relatives of prisoners outside Evin Prison, where police the previous day dispersed a group of around 60 people.
They were then arrested and held throughout the day at the offices of police intelligence then the Tehran general prosecutor‚s office.
Ganji‚s lawyers have not been allowed to see their client since he was re-imprisoned on 10 June. Tehran‚s prosecutor, Said Mortazavi said the journalist was currently in "The suite", a name given to a special section of the prison under sole and direct control of the prosecutor‚s office, in which Zahra Kazemi was murdered.
The wife of Nasser Zarafshan, lawyer for murdered intellectuals and journalists, told Reporters Without Borders that she was very concerned about her husband‚s health. The prison doctor has said his blood pressure is very low and he has reportedly lost 10 kilos since starting a hunger strike on 7 June.
That means he's being beaten & tortured. He was very vocal during his release from prison the previous week.
[The same treatment needs to be inflicted upon Mortezavi one day]
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