Zaidabadi Wife: “Prosecutor Gave the Order to Stop Mr. Zaidabadi’s Release”
By IHRV | October 6, 2009
The wife of Dr. Zaidabadi, chairman of the Iran Students Organization, said her husband is still banned from receiving visitors and he has also been denied a release bond.
Mehdieh Mohammdi, Dr. Zaidabadi’s wife, said: “This morning, accompanied by Dr. Zaidabadi’s lawyer, we went to the revolutionary court to arrange for his release bond, when we encountered a situation in complete violation of existing laws”.
Ms. Mohammdi continued: “On Sunday, at the end of normal office hours, the investigator in charge of Dr. Zaidabadi’s case contacted his lawyer and said his release bond had been issued, and arrangement could be made for his release bond the next day –today, the same judicial authority told us that Tehran’s prosecutor has placed a stop order on the release of the political activist”.
Further details available atIranian Human Rights Voice.
Dr. Ahmad Zeidabadi: Notable Iranian journalist, writer and political analyst.
By: Shiva Nojo
Ahmad Zeidabadi holds a doctorate in international relations from Tehran University. His articles appeared in many newspapers and other media such as Rooz and BBC Persian. He takes an anti-government position[1] and has been arrested in 2000[2] and 2003, on the latter occasion being sentenced to 23 months imprisonment, reduced to 13 months on appeal.[3]
Excerpt Published in Rooze online August, 2009:
Ahmad Zeidabadi, the imprisoned journalist of Rooz Online and the spokesperson for Advare Tahkim Vahdat student organization, the alumni of Iran’s largest student association, is under very intense pressure to relinquish all political and media work for ever. Rooz learned this through its conversation with his wife, who also said that on her last visit to see her husband, she noticed that he appeared completely un-himself and that his behavior was not normal at all.
This well-known journalist and writer has been in detention sine June 21st and has been kept in an undisclosed location. He met his family members last Monday for the first time since imprisonment exhibiting very poor physical and emotional conditions. In speaking with Rooz Online, his wife Mahdie was extremely alarmed about her husband’s condition and could not stop crying during the interview.
Denying reports that Zeidabadi was in hospital, his wife said, “I met him in the administrative section of the prison, along with my attorney. He was much thinner than his usual and had a long beard.”
Ms Zeidabadi quoted her husband and said, “Right from the beginning of his arrest, Mr. Zeidabadi protested his unlawful arrest and the abusive behavior, thus starting a hunger strike. At the time, he was kept in a solitary cell. He was in complete isolation there, without any sound or light. Until his condition deteriorated to the point that after 17 days prison guards and agents brought in a physician. The doctor told him that many had been released from prison and that nobody outside knew that he had started a hunger strike and that by continuing his strike, he would end up dead. Anyway, the doctor convinced him to stop his hunger strike.”
As described by his wife, Zeidabadi had been kept in the solitary cell for 35 days, starting from the day of his arrest. The only person he saw during this period was the doctor who visited him and convinced him to break his hunger strike, believing that everybody had in fact been released from prison. She said that her husband told her that he had been kept in a box-type of container about 1.5 meters (4.5 feet) long.
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