Officials in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison prohibited a number of political prisoners from their right to having family visits. Based on reports from inside Iran it has been five weeks since Misters Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpoor Moghadam, father and son who are also relatives of a number of Ashraf residents, have been refused any family visits. A number of other political prisoners by the names of Misters Asghar Mahmoudian and Ali Gholam Nejad, have also been deprived of family visits who are being kept in the women’s ward.
Mohsen and Ahmad Danespoor Moghadam, condemned to death by the mullahs’ henchmen, are suffering from various illnesses including heart disease, kidney, digestive system and internal bleeding due to physical and psychological torture.

Other reports indicate Nasrin Sotudeh, lawyer and political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for the past three weeks in protest to pressures by prison officials, has also been banned from any family visits.