NCRI, 07 October 2010 – An Iranian political prisoner has sent out a letter from prison revealing the Iranian ‎regime’s attempts to fabricate a case against him as well as his days under severe torture, ‎according to Rahana news agency.‎
Seyyed Sami Hosseini is currently being held at Oroumieh Prison, northwestern Iran, and ‎is sentenced to death.‎
In the letter, the political prisoner introduces himself as “a welder and the son of a ‎villager.”‎
‎“I was arrested on June 4, 2008, initially taken to the intelligence ministry office in the ‎city of Salmas, where I endured some of the most severe tortures for 6-7 days.”‎
He added that regime officials fabricated a case against him and his friend, Jamaloddin ‎Mohammadi, and sentenced the two to death by relying on “fictitious witnesses claimed ‎to exist by the intelligence office and the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Khoi, whom we ‎never even meet.”‎
‎“They claim that a bomb exploded on July 19, 2008, but both of us were in the custody ‎of the intelligence office in Oroumieh 44 days prior to that date.”‎
This shows that the “regime’s intelligence ministry brought a situation onto itself that it ‎could no longer avoid and that is why they feel the need to announce someone as the ‎culprit,” the letter said.‎
The letter also said that Mr. Hosseini wants to “expose the current ruling system in Iran,” ‎adding, “I want you to know what is really happening in the present Iranian society at ‎large and the prisons in particular. Imagine what toll such pressures and suppressive acts ‎have taken on the Iranian people.”‎
Hosseini called on all international organizations, the UN Secretary General, Human ‎Rights Watch, and the European Court of Human Rights to review his case and to ‎condemn the regime’s crimes.‎