Yesterday noon, the special forces of Orumiyeh Central Prison have raided ward 12 seized five personal TV sets while abusing political prisoners and destroying some of their personal belongings.
“On Monday, April 16, Alireza Safari (head of Orumiyeh Central Prison) along with Rassoul Sayyid Fatem (the head of the interrogation centre) referred to the Political Prisoners’ Ward 12 under the pretext of unauthorised use of TV by political prisoners and asked them to hand over their TV units. They were faced with opposition of political prisoners.” An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
The source added that after the political prisoners refused to hand over their televisions that they had purchased at their own expense, three political prisoners called Ahmad Tumui, Ebrahim Isapour and Kamal Hassan Ramadan were transferred to the security office. 50 Special Units Forces raided the ward of political prisoners led by the prison chief and destroyed the personal belongings of the political prisoners in addition to seizing five television sets.
According to the source, after transferring the confiscated TVs to the office of prison chief, three of the televisions were broken by agents in the courtyard while the other two sets were kept for inspection.
Finally, after completing the inspections and confiscating TV sets, the three political prisoners were returned back to the ward.
Ward 12 of Orumiyeh Central Prison is known as the political prisoners’ section. Over the past few years, the Intelligence Office of Orumiyeh has been trying to dissolve this prison. Moreover, the majority of detained political prisoners in this prison are held alongside Ordinary Crime prisoners without regard to the rule of segregation of prisoners based on the type of their crimes.
Last year, the prison chief ordered the transfer of unoccupied beds in the political prisoners’ ward the Ordinary Crime Ward and these beds were sold to prisoners at the price of several million Tomans.
