Meeting with Mohammad Saber Malek-Reisi

"Meeting" is a brief narrative about those whose lives are confined to a four-walled space called prison. In each segment of this program, we visit one of those who are labeled as 'political-prisoners' by human rights organizations. He is from Sarbaz County in Sistan and Baluchestan Province and resides in Chabahar, but is serving his sentence in exile in Ardabil prison. Mohammad Saber Malek-Reisi is 25 years old and has been in prison for eight years. His family says he was 17 at the time of his arrest and spent several months in solitary confinement at the intelligence detention center. Throughout his detention, he was denied access to a defense attorney and was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison in a brief trial with a court-appointed lawyer. The charges against him were not disclosed, and during family inquiries, officials only stated that his charge is security-related. The information in this audio file pertains to the time of its preparation, editing, and publication, and the status of the political prisoner in question may have changed since this report was made.