Saeed Masouri

<p>He was born in Khorram Abad. Saeed Masouri has lived in Germany and later Norway and studied Medicine. Saeed Masouri and Gholam Hossein Kalbi were arrested upon entering Iran on the charge of "Cooperation with Mujahedin Khalgh Organization." For their first arrest, they each spent 14 months in solitary cells.</p>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='3871'> Saeed Masouri and Gholam Hossein Kalbi were arrested in Dezful city upon entering Iran due to their connection with Mujahedin Khalgh Organization. They both survived despite using cyanide. Their families were informed of their arrest in the April of the next year. After the arrest they were transferred to Revolutionary Guard's lockup in Ahvaz (Revolutionary Guard's 6th prison, according to Saeed Masouri's memoir) </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9567'> Some time after his arrest, he was transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison for further interrogations </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9568'> He was returned to the Revolutionary Guard's lockup in Ahvaz for further interrogations and his trial. He was tried in a Dezful court (it is possible that this was only the court investigation), but his trial that led to sentencing was held in Tehran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9569'> Saeed Masouri and Gholam Hossein Kalbi were returned to Ward 209 of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9570'> He was tried by the Revolutionary Court in the winter or spring of 2002 and was later sentenced to death. He had a court-appointed lawyer. His attorney was only allowed to read his case a few minutes before the trial </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9574'> Saeed Masouri and Gholam Hossein Kalbi were informed of their verdict of execution by hanging, issued by Judge Haghani, chief justice of the branch 6 of the Revolutionary Court. After a long complicated process, the sentence was reduced to life in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12837'> After being transferred to Ward 7, he was once again transferred back to Ward 209 for some time </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='3874'> It was reported that after he received his B.A in prison, he was barred from further education. He has also been denied phone privileges and the prison authorities are refusing him any temporary leave </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13291'> HRANA reported that Saeid Masouri, Saleh Kohandel, Naseh Yousefi, Khaled Hardani, Mohammadali Mansouri, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhaziri, Hamidreza Borhani, and Misagh Yazdannezhad began hunger strikes in protest of the conditions in the prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='3877'> According to some reports, he was threatened with death by Intelligence ministry agents, including an interrogator called Alavi. Because he had released a letter expressing his concerns regarding the military attack on Ashraf Camp in Iraq which had left several dead and injured </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='3875'> It was reported that since his knee injury during sports, the prison authorities have denied him medical treatment. He has been denied temporary leave during all his years in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13278'> Following the transfer of Rasoul Bodaghi and Shahrokh Zamani to solitary confinement due to their complaints regarding the shuttering of the library in Ward 12 and subsequent hunger strike, Saeid Masouri, Saleh Kohandel, Naseh Yousefi, Khaled Hardani, Mohammadali Mansouri, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhaziri, Hamidreza Borhani, and Misagh Yazdannezhad began hunger strikes </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='3879'> He was transferred to Revolutionary Guard's Ward from Hall 12 of Rajayi Shahr Prison, and was returned to his ward after a few hours </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7981'> He released an essay titled "Who has to ask for forgiveness?" from prison. The essay was published by Hesar News </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6964'> According to Harana, he has reached the 16th year of his life sentence in prison while still being denied of temporary leave and with no freedom in sight. The report mentions that due to old age and long distance, his father has not been able to visit him in about a year </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7802'> In a letter to United Nations' secretary general and the Human Rights Council, Saeed Masoury, Reza Akbari Monfared, Hassan Sadeghi, Shahin Zoghi, Mohamad Akramipour, Amir Ghaziani, Abolghasem Fouladvand, and Saeed Shirzad announced that they will go on a hunger strike in order to raise awareness to the terrible conditions of other prisoners, and in solidarity with Saleh Kohandel, Pirooz Mansoori, and Afshin Baymani, who were moved to solitary confinement after their objection to the execution of Sunni prisoners of conscience </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9644'> He released an essay titled "These Inquiries are Blood-Boiling" from prison. It is focused on the 1988 mass executions </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10398'> Saeed Masouri wrote a letter in support and commendation of Maryam Akbari Monfared and her fight for justice, in which he used Shia examples relating to Ashoura. The letter was published by Hesar News </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10117'> Twelve prisoners of ward 4 in hall 12 of Rajayi Shahr prison in Karaj announced their support of Maryam Akbari Monfared's lawsuit and demand for justice. This letter was published by Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Activists in Iran, and is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page. The signatories are as follows: Reza Akbari Monfared, Saeed Shirzad, Mohamad Ali Mansouri, Behnam Mousivand, Saleh Kohandel, Saeed Masouri, Javad Fouladvand, Hassan Sdeghi, Shahin Zoghitabar, Ali Moezzi, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, and Khaled Hardani </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10386'> In a letter to workers, teachers, and students, a group of Rajayi Shahr prisoners supported their protests. The signatories were as follows: Abolghasem Fouladvand, Reza Akbarri Monfared, Saeed Masouri, Mohamad Ali Mansouri, Saleh Kohandel, Ali Moezzi, Hassan Sadeghi, Shahin Zoghitabar, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, Jaber Abedini, Ebrahim Firouzi, and Khaled Hardani. According to Hesar News reports, a few days later, the same prisoners - except Jabe Abedini - along with Arzhang Davoudi, signed another letter in support of a conference in Paris and called it a conference to "empower the movement for demanding justice". Some of the signatories published other solo or group letters later on </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11727'> He and 13 other prisoners of Rajayi Shahr Prison wrote a letter in support of Saeed Shirzad's demands and invited the prison authorities and the Judiciary to respect the prisoners' "natural rights". The letter is documented in Saeed Shirzad's page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12042'> In a letter to Asma Jahangir, he and 19 other prisoners of Rajayi Shahr expressed their concerns about Saeed Shirzad's conditions. The letter is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of Saeed Shirzad's page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19454'> After the collective transfer of the political and ideological/religious prisoners of Rajaei Shahr prison to a new ward, a number of them began a hunger strike.This widespread hunger strike led to the prison guards and staff’s mistreatment of prisoners’ families, threatening of prisoners, putting prisoners in solitary confinement and withholding medical treatment and medicines. The collective protest was met with the media reaction of the judiciary, and the support of human rights organizations and some of the civil and political activists. Because some of the prisoner terminated their strike sooner and some of them were, also, transferred to solitary cells, the list of names changed during the period of the hunger strike, but in general, the names of prisoners who partook in the hunger strike, whose names have been confirmed by verified lists, are as follows: Majid Asadi, Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Shirzad, Saeed Masouri, Shahin Zoghitabar, Reza Akbari Monfared, Abolghasem Fouladvand, Hasan Sadeghi, Reza Shahabi, Mohammad Nazari, Payam Shakiba, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, Mohammal Ali Mansouri, Ebrahim Firouzi, Amir Ghaziani, Vahid Sayad Nasiri, Hamid Babaei, Zanyar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, Houshang Rezaei and Saeed Pourheydar. Among them Saeed Shirzad, Reza Shahabi, and Mohammad Nazari’s hunger strike lasted longer than 50 days.The last two, had continued their hunger strike in protest to the situation of their own cases </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18289'> An informed source told Iran Prison Atlas that after the political prisoners were transferred from Hall 14 Ward 4 to Hall 10 of the same ward and they refused to eat in response, some continued their hunger strike: Saeed Masouri, Jafar Eghdami, Abolghassem Fouladvand, Reza Akbari Monfared, Hassan Sadeghi Khoramdashti and Amir Ghaziyani where transferred to solitary cells, and in the ward’s hall, some prisoners on strike, as well, including, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi and Mohammad Ali Mansouri </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18507'> According to Iran Prison Atlas, the prisoners who had been transferred to solitary cells, were returned to the ward in the past several days, without having signed an end-of-hunger-strike form. According to an informed source, around 15 prisoners are on hunger strike and Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Mansouri and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi are those among them who’ve been suffering from faintness </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19727'> Arash Sadeghi, Saeed Shirazi, and Saeed Masouri wrote a letter from Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj to the international human rights organizations, describing the condition of Majid Asadi, stressing that he “suspects having intestinal cancer” and “has lost eight kilos of weight during the past two weeks” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20459'> He released a statement comparing the resistance of political prisoners in Iran to Rosa Parks' and said their struggle is for human dignity. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20417'> HRANA in its reports, wrote of the developments after the transfer of political prisoners to the 10th hall of ward 10 and that Mostafa Mohebbi (head of the Tehran prisons organization), Mohammad Mardani (the head of the prison), Mostafa Ziaei (current prison director), Kohandani (supervisor judge of the prison) And Sigaroudi (prison’s judicial deputy) have been involved in various transitions and subsequent catastrophes. According to current and former chiefs, restrictions have been imposed with Mostafa Mohebbi's orders and supervision. According to the report, most of the political prisoners’ belongings were not returned to them, and some of them were sold in other prisons; heating facilities, ventilation and hot water do not work properly, and prisoners have to heat the kettle for bathing. The prison authorities detached the Baha'i prisoners from the others and isolated them in the hall of the hall 11. On the orders of Mohammad Mardani and in collaboration with Mr. Kohandani and Mr. Sigaroudi, cases have been opened for Saeed Massouri, Reza Akbarimonfard, Saeed Shirzad, Hassan Sadeghi, Amir Ghaziani, Jafar Eghdami, Abolghasem Fouladvand and Ebrahim Firoozi, eight prisoners who were transferred to the solitary confinement during their hunger strike, with allegations of "insulting the leadership, shouting slogans against officials and disturbing the prison’s order." Shortly afterwards, Saeed Pourheidar, Saeed Shirzad, Amir Ghaziani and Ebrahim Firoozi were also accused of "destroying public property". Access to the store and open space is also limited, prisoners are abused and mistreated by the prison authorities when getting transferred to the hospital or court, and that the political prisoners do not have access to newspaper and there is only one TV in the hall </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27882'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/1_un08vut.pdf'> Seven prisoners in Rajaei Shahr Prison released a letter expressing solidarity with the November 2019 protesters across the country and condemning the suppression of the protests and mistreatment of arrested protesters by the security forces. The letter states: > They bring the arrested protesters on a truck to the yard of Ward 8 (a separate jail inside the prison controlled by IRGC and Intelligence Ministry) and started hitting them with whips, batons, punches, and kicks while they were handcuffed and blindfolded... It didn't matter if they were wounded or not. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34138'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-28240/'> In the 21st year of his incarceration, he wrote a letter honoring those who were executed during his time in prison. The letter honors people such as Navid Afkari, Mohammad Reza Salehi, Shirin ALamhouli, Farhad Kamangar, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, Hojjat Zamani, Valiollah Feiz, Ali Saremi, Shahrokh Zamani, Mohammad Salas, Ehsan Fatahian, among others. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50067'> <reference source='https://iranhrs.org/%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%af%db%8c%d9%85-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d9%be%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%af%d8%ae%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%b2%d9%85%db%8c%d9%86%d8%8c-%d9%be%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%85%db%8c/'> With the start of the national 2022 uprising, he wrote a letter from prison to the "Steely Girls of Iran" and supported the national uprising. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50062'> <reference source='https://t.me/iranhrs98/44412'> He started the 23rd year of his prison without even a single day of furlough. Iran Human Rights Campaign reported that while entering the 23rd year of his prison sentence, he is suffering from neck pain, gums and teeth problems, back pain, and many other ailments but he hasn't been sent to the doctors for diagnosis. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53101'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-43325/'> The prison officers violently removed Saeed Masouri, Afshin Baymani, Hamzeh Savari, Hossein Gachlou, Masoudreza Ebrahiminejad, Loghman Aminpour, Saman Yasin (Saidi), Mohammad Shafie and Motalleb Ahmadian from Evin prison. While announcing this news, HRANA wrote that at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, the officers of Evin Prison entered Ward 8 with violence, handcuffed and tied them, and without having time to collect their personal belongings, took them to Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. According to this report, Nayeri, the judge in charge of security prisoners, ordered the transfer of these 9 people, and the prison officials moved them on the order of Farzadi, the warden of Evin prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53094'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/mukup2kw'> Saeed Masouri, a political prisoner who has been in prison for 23 years without leave, described the shocking situation of this prison in a letter and while calling it a "black hole", he wrote that the prisoners are denied access to the most basic facilities. In this letter published by Iran Human Rights Center, Mr. Masouri mentioned Hayat al-Gheyb, the director general of prisons in Tehran province, and Ejei, the head of the judiciary of the Islamic Republic, who is responsible for the conditions of Ghezel Hesar prison: > Ghezel Hesar is a black hole that is created by the will of the supreme leader, and loyal criminal slaves like Ejei, pour the people of this soil into this black hole, young and old, and burn them in the fire of their crimes. In another part of the letter, Saeed Masouri discussed the situation of political and non-political prisoners imprisoned in this prison: > Right now, several young people are waiting for execution in the side cells behind iron doors and concrete walls, and even last night, several people were taken to the infirmary while bloody and dirty, [but] there was an order not to take care of them even to the extent of dressing their wounds and disinfecting them. They only handcuffed and bound them and threw them into the solitary cells on the other side...while bleeding... > Even if they (violent crimes prisoners) attacked and killed us, political prisoners, in order to delay their death sentence so that a new murder case could be opened (which is customary), The blame is not on them. Because this is the only way to save or at least postpone their execution. Here, there is no authority to appeal to, and executions are only for repression and intimidation and not a legal issue... and no justice, no right to defense, no lawyer... everything is brutal. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53095'> <reference source='https://t.me/kashowra/17574'> The Coordinating Council of Teachers' Union Organizations of Iran published a report on the latest situation of political prisoners exiled to Ghezal Hesar Prison and announced details about the unexpected transfer: > The transfer of these prisoners from Evin prison was done without prior notice and by deception and under various pretexts. This process of exile was done by resorting to handcuffs and shackles, as well as using violence, threats, and insults. This transfer was done while the names of these prisoners were not recorded in the books of Ghezal Hesar prison. According to the head of this prison, there is no way to accept these people." According to this report, all the exiles are kept in the Safe Ward of Ghezal Hesar prison, which is reserved for the punishment of prisoners, and due to the lack of minimum security in this ward, the exiled have to be on guard 24/7 to prevent the cell door from being closed and blocked. Based on the information published in the report of the Coordination Council, The Safe Ward lacks any cooking facilities and stores for shopping. As a sign of protest, the exiled prisoners refused to accept prison food from the first day of transfer, and due to the impossibility of cooking, during the past few days, the food of these prisoners has been limited to tea and biscuits. Also, this section lacks basic facilities such as drinking water and hot water for bathing. While announcing these matters, the Coordination Council added: > The exiled prisoners did not have any access to fresh air and were kept in a closed environment without ventilation for 24 hours. Apart from these cases, exiled prisoners are deprived of telephone as usual, and they are also denied the minimum facilities for treatment and health. The Coordination Council also wrote that the head of the Prisons Organization, Hayat al-Gheeb, was present at the prison of the exiled prisoners yesterday and emphasized that the transfer was done by his order. In the morning of Sunday, September 3rd, 2023, Loghman Aminpour, Saeed Masouri, Afshin Baimani, Sepehr Emam Jomeh, Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb, Mohammad Shafei, Saman Seydi (Yasin), Hamzeh Savari, Ahmadreza Haeri, Reza Salmanzadeh, Masoudreza Ebrahiminejad, Jafar Ebrahimi and Kamyar Fakour, 13 Political prisoners imprisoned in Evin and Gohardasht prisons (Rajaei Shahr) were deported to Ghezel Hesar prison by resorting to violence and without providing any explanation. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='68649'> <p><a href="https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-956/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HRANA </a>reported that Mr. Masouri, in a letter, described the process of issuing and carrying out death sentences in Iran as involving “criminal preliminaries.” He wrote: “The judicial proceedings are fabricated and purely formal; defense attorneys are denied access to case files, and confessions are often extracted under pressure or with promises of reduced sentences.” He called this a clear violation of human rights and urged international bodies—especially the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights—to address the situation.</p> </coverage-outsourcing>