Islamic Republic uses students like Human spare parts
We have previously documented reports of physical torture, long illegal detentions, suspicious deaths that sometimes happen because of baton blows, and high rates of suicide because of hard conditions in Rajayi Shahr prison, Karaj.
But the last news we got really shows the height of cruelty and enmity with humanity. We have documents that prove judiciary officials and prison organizations are involved in trading prisoner body parts. One of these documents is hereby published. This dates back to 2005 and in it, Ali Haj Kazem, prison chief, and other officials of Prisons Organization and Judiciary claim that a kidney of Afshin Karimi was wrongly taken out. The name of the person that Karimi’s kidney was given to in Madani hospital in Karaj is identified.
Managers of Prisons Organization commit that if anything happens to his other kidney, they would get him another one. Now that four years has passed, Prisoner Afshin Karimi has acute kidney problems, but the prison has not even sent him to a hospital outside the prison.
Afshin Karimi is only one of the prisoners that started a lawsuit after he found out that his kidney was taken out of his body and sold without his permission. There are a lot of prisoners like this: Ahmad Hannani, Shervin Goodarzi, Abdollah, just to name a few.
My research proves that top-notch judiciary officials and a lot of prison authorities have been removing body parts of prisoners out of their bodies since at least 2005, selling them at high prices.
A while ago, in the same prison, we saw the forced transfer of jailed girls to Dubai. After being exposed, the prison Chief and Chief of Karaj Revolutionary Court were arrested and dismissed, but were unfortunately released very soon.
We have repeatedly asked judicial officials, General Inspection Organization, and Parliamentary Committee for Article 90 to form a research committee on crimes and human rights violations in Iranian prisons, but unfortunately because revealing these crimes will question a lot of Islamic Republic officials and their nature, nothing has been done.
Even when I was in solitary cells of Section 1 – Hall 2 for six months, an hour before Mr. Dah Pahlevan, inspector for Prisons Organizations came to see me, they sent me to solitary cells of Section 5. After he left, I was sent back to my own cell. The reason the prison did this can be due to the lack of legal documents needed to keep me in solitary, and because I did not reveal crimes I witnessed in the last 10 years in Gohardasht Prison, Karaj. There is no doubt that if the Islamic Republic holds on to group media and the GIO system weakens, more information will come out about crimes that the prisons committed.
In the oppressive situation inside Iran, Human Rights Council of the United Nations should send an independent research committee to Iran to reveal crimes that happened in the past and happen now so authorities know that power is not a carte blanche that can be just spent on their will.
Behrooz Javid Tehrani, Political Prisoner,
Karaj’s Gohardahst Prison, Section 1, Hall 1
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