Maryam Nayeb Yazdi

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – On the evening of October 16, 2010, the director of the Special Clerics Ward in Evin prison once again verbally insulted and abused Ayatollah Kazmeyni Boroujerdi and assaulted him with a baton.

According to HRANA reporters, one of the prisoners stated that the savage attack was a [response] to Boroujerdi’s protests against the violations of prisoners’ basic human rights.

In the past two weeks, Boroujerdi has repeatedly protested prisoners’ lack of medical attention and visitation bans and the dangerous move of transferring recovering drug addicts into the ward. He has written several letters to authorities including Mr. Ghadyani, the Special Clerical Prosecutor.

Evin prison officials claim that the special ward for clerics is directly under the control of the Ministry of Intelligence and Special Clerical Prosecutions Office.

Translation by Siavosh Jalili  | Editing by Maryam Nayeb Yazdi
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