According to People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran(PMOI/MEK), April 3, Juvenile offender Danial Zeinolabedini, was tortured to death by prison guards in Miandoab, western Iran. His dead body was handed to his family on Thursday, April 2. Zeinolabedini contacted his family at 1 am local time, Tuesday, March 31, and said he wad transferred to Miandoab prison and nearly beaten to death. He was begging his family to come and save him.
Following a riot in Mahabad Prison on Sunday, March 29, Zeinolabedini and a number of other inmates were transferred to solitary confinement under the pretext of being involved in launching the riot and protests. After suffering a severe beating by Mahabad Prison authorities, Zeinolabedini was exiled to Miandoab and once again placed under torture. His family was contacted on Thursday, April 2, and informed of his death. Signs of beatings and torture are clearly seen on Zeinolabedini’s dead body.
Inmates in Mahabad prison located in northwest Iran launched a riot on Saturday, March 28, and many were able to flee the facility. This riot was launched as inmates were protesting regime authorities’ refusal to release prisoners despite the ongoing Coronavirus epidemic across the country.
It is worth noting due to the Coronavirus outbreak and a number of inmates being infected in numerous prisons across Iran, the inmates are facing serious threats and their lives are in grave danger. Six prisoners infected with Coronavirus have died in the Greater Tehran Prison ever since the COVID-19 crisis began and started spreading throughout the country.
In Urmia, women prisoners have launched a hunger strike protesting lack of hygiene supplies and authorities’ refusal to temporarily release them as the virus spreads across the country.
Reports obtained by the Iranian resistance indicate over 200 female prisoners have been on hunger strike since Saturday, March 28. All these inmates refused to take any food at Saturday lunch time, throwing it on the ground and vowing to continue their hunger strike until they are at least temporarily released.
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In the absence of government aid to people amid the Coronavirus crisis, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are looting not only the items classified as public aid and vital health supplies, but also the aid voluntarily supplied by the people. Women in Aligudarz in Lorestan province had been sewing face masks with the intention of distributing them, free of charge, to the local community. However, members of the IRGC confiscated the masks and are selling them for 2,500 Tomans, each.
These IRGC operatives are committing their crime with impunity, despite the growing number of people infected by the Coronavirus falling around on the streets without anyone attending to them.
Video footage shows people protesting the fact that they cannot get through to emergency and government-sponsored hotlines, which were set up to respond to citizens’ calls for help. According to the protesters, in the rare event that telephone calls are actually answered, callers are directed to contact another institution!
Moreover, credible sources have reported that, besides confiscating face masks, the IRGC is hoarding medical supplies and other foreign aid. IRGC operatives then sell the supplies on the black market at hugely inflated prices
Conversely, People’s Councils in which women play an active role have been making selfless donations, with no expectation of compensation, to help fight the Coronavirus. Women have been sewing masks and medical scrubs to support the medical professionals at the front lines of the fight against the deadly virus.
Despite IRGC looting, In Marivan, the People’s Councils donated 57 nurses’ uniforms to Bu Ali and Fajr Hospitals. In Aligudarz, the People’s Councils equipped 20 tractors, at no cost, to disinfect the city. In Shahr-e-Rey, resistance units (affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran) donated face masks to their fellow citizens.
