
Mohammad Ali Zanjirei
- Deputy of Isfahan Central Prison, Isfahan (1981 - 1986)
- Deputy of the Prison Organisation in development and management affairs (Apr 2011 - 5 Aug 2014)
- Human Rights Violation: Ill-treatment of political prisoners (Apr 2011 - 5 Aug 2014) read more
- Institution
- Prisons Organisation
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Description
Mohammad Ali Zanjirei, as the Deputy of Prison Organisation in development and management affairs, has been responsible for the ill-treatment of prisoners and depriving them of their rights. He ordered the transfer of many prisoners to solitary confinement.
On 10 April, 2011, two student activists imprisoned in Evin, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdieh Golroo, were transferred to solitary confinement by authorities without giving a reason.
On 12 June, 2012, while inmates of Ward 350 of Evin Prison were holding a ceremony to commemorate the death of political prisoner Hoda Saber, Special Guards attacked the ward and transferred a number of prisoners, including Saeed Jalalifar, Farshad Ghorbanpour, Saeed Matinpour, and Bahman Ahmadi Amoui to solitary confinement.
On 17 February, 2014, Rasoul Badaghi and Shahrokh Zamani, imprisoned trade union activists, were transferred to solitary confinement without a reason. On 8 December, 2013, Ismail Barzegari, a political prisoner in Ward 350 of Evin Prison, who was on his 43rd day of hunger strike, was transferred to one of the solitary confinement cells in Ward 240 of Evin Prison for the second time in 10 days.
On 17 April, 2014, the agents IRGC intelligence organisation and the Ministry of Intelligence, along with more than 100 the Prisoners' Guard attacked the prisoners in ward 350 of Evin Prison with batons, severely injured more than 30 and transferred 32 inmates, including Abdolfattah Soltani, Mohammad Amin Hadavi, Saeed Matinpour, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, Behzad Arabgol, transferred Houtan Dolati to solitary confinement.
- Sources
Transfer of two political prisoners to solitary confinement and restriction of Rajai Shahr prisoners' communication, BBC Farsi, 2011
'Transfer of several political prisoners to solitary confinement' at the funeral of Hoda Saber, BBC Farsi, 13 June, 2012
Rasoul Badaghi and Shahrokh Zamani transferred to solitary confinement, Radio Zamaneh, 19 February, 2014
Ismail Barzegari transferred to solitary confinement, Radio Zamaneh, 8 December, 2013
Attack on prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin Prison, BBC Farsi, 28 April 2014
- Human Rights Violation: Ill-treatment of political prisoners (Apr 2011 - 5 Aug 2014) read more
- Senior advisor to the Head of the Prison Organisation (5 Aug 2014 - present)