Reza Mohammadi from Ghezelsar: 'The Execution Regime Will Be Delivered to Justice'

Following the deaths of Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini, two notorious judges of the Islamic Republic, Reza Mohammadi, a political prisoner in Ghezelsar, has documented his experiences with government judges in a letter that was sent to Voice of America. In the text sent on Wednesday, January 23, by an informed source to the Persian section of Voice of America, Mohammadi wrote: 'A few days ago, the news of Judge Mohammad Mogheiseh's death brought back all the memories of the detentions, trials, and injustices I suffered, and I felt it necessary to write these down for the historical record.' This political prisoner explained: 'In 2019, Judge Mohammad Mogheiseh, known for issuing unjust sentences against human rights activists, sentenced me to seven years in prison solely for writing the phrase 'Death to the Dictator' on a wall. This cruel sentence was part of the oppression that took my youth in prison.' Mohammadi added: 'In that same year, my father, who had come to court to defend me, faced insults from Mogheiseh and was thrown out of the court. He said: 'Your son is anti-revolutionary, get out,' and this inhumane treatment left a deep wound on my family's spirit and was part of the pressures imposed on us.' Reza Mohammadi recalled that in Bahman 1401 (January 2023), after a 75-day period of freedom, he was arrested again for saying 'What language should we speak to tell you we do not want you?' He stated that his father died of a 'heart attack' caused by 'this violence and psychological pressures,' and 'the oppressive regime did not even allow me to attend his funeral.' This political prisoner expressed that the judges of the Islamic Republic took 'more than five years of my youth' through 'prison, exile, and solitary confinement,' and considered his 'exile from Evin prison to Ghezelsar' as 'one of the bitterest experiences' of his life. He added: 'When I protested this exile, by the order of Hedayatollah Farzadi, the head of Evin prison, and the internal manager, Meysam Bagheri, I was transferred to solitary confinement in Ward 240 and then spent three weeks in harsh conditions in the solitary confinement known as the special torture suite for the last moments of the lives of death row prisoners in Ghezelsar prison.' He recounted a memory from his imprisonment in the 'special torture suite for the last moments of the lives of death row prisoners,' saying: 'One night in Aban 1402 (October 2023), I saw a prisoner whose bloody face was tied to the rings of the wall. He was shivering from the cold under the window, handcuffed and shackled, begging for mercy, but the guards paid no attention to him. These inhumane behaviors will never leave my mind.' Reza Mohammadi also emphasized that the perpetrators of 'these crimes, including officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hedayatollah Farzadi, Mohammadreza Amouzad, the clerics of the seminary, and other repression agents, have not yet been tried.' This political prisoner also described the Islamic Republic as a 'regime' that silences freedom seekers with violence, executions, imprisonment, and repression, stating that it has 'no legitimacy and will one day be delivered to justice.' Mohammadi stressed: 'My human duty is to enlighten and be the voice of the victims of these crimes. Justice will one day be established, and the perpetrators of these oppressions will be tried before the eyes of the world.' On January 18 of this year, Iranian media reported the deaths of Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini, two well-known judges of the Islamic Republic who had repeatedly issued death sentences for government opponents during their tenure. Iranian officials claimed that the assailant was the 'janitor of the Supreme Court.' Following the deaths of Mogheiseh and Razini, some political activists, journalists, lawyers, and labor activists on social media referred to them as 'statues of cruelty' and emphasized their 'biased' judgments in issuing death sentences and long-term imprisonments, especially for political defendants.