Source: roozonline.com

July 10, 2009
At Least Ten More are Imprisoned
With the arrest of Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a member of the Center for Defenders of Human Rights (Kanoone Modafeane Hoghooghe Bashar), Feizollah Arabsorkhi, ...

With the arrest of Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a member of the Center for Defenders of Human Rights (Kanoone Modafeane Hoghooghe Bashar), Feizollah Arabsorkhi, a member of the Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution Organization’s central committee (Sazemane Mojahedin Enghelab Eslami), and Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah, a journalist and member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (Jebhe Mosharekat), the list of individuals detained following the contested tenth presidential election on June 12 became longer. Maliheh Dadkhah, Sara Sabaghian, Bahareh Doalou, Amir Raeisian, Hesam Salamat, Ali Taghipour and Nima Taghavi are among the recent detainees as well.
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah was arrested along with his staff. The name of his daughter also appears among those detained. Maliheh Dadkhah, Sara Sabaghian, Bahareh Doalou and Amir Raeisian were among those transported to an undisclosed location along with Dadkhah. Dadkhah’s arrest follows the arrest of Abdolfatah Soltani, another attorney and member of the Center for Defenders of Human Rights. The two attorneys represented a large number of political prisoners and journalists in recent years.
Arabsorkhi was arrested on Tuesday at his house while the officers arresting him did not present an arrest warrant or provide any information about where they were taking him. This political activist’s daughter, Fatemeh Arabsorkhi, wrote on her blog, “I love you dad, and hope that you are strong and steadfast as always. Like those days when you would return from the frontline and shared memories of bravery and the culture of martyrdom of your friends, many of whom are not with us any longer.” Mohammad Yazdanpanah, a member of the Participation Front’s youth wing, was arrested Tuesday night in a manner similar to those used to arrest many others. And as in other cases, even after much investigation, his family has not succeeded in locating him. Previously, another member of the Participation Front, Jalal Mohammadlou, was arrested on Sunday.
Among the recent student detainees are Hesam Salamat, Ali Taghipour and Nima Taghavi. One member of the Office for Strengthening Student Unity, the largest student organization in Iran, told Rooz, “After the election they poured into the homes of many central committee member to arrest them; but they couldn’t and those individuals are not staying at places other than their homes.”

Prisoners’ Critical Condition
Some reports indicate that several prisoners are in critical conditions. Among those that are in particular danger is Mahsa Amrabadi, a pregnant journalist who is said to be under intense pressure and in an unsuitable environment.

Bijan Khajehpour, an economic analyst who was arrested last week at the Imam Khomeini airport is also not doing well healthwise because of his kidney, which has his family seriously worried. Conflicting reports continue to be published regarding Saeed Hajjarian’s condition as well. Meanwhile, the wife of one political prisoner told Rooz, “My husband has not contacted his family two weeks after being detained which has aroused our suspicion. We want to know how the prisoners are doing. Phone calls don’t suffice either. We must see them. It is not clear what goes on behind the phones. We must see them to make sure they are healthy.”
As more arrests continue, prisoners are learning of the dire conditions they are in. One political prisoner, a member of the Mousavi campaign, told his family in a phone converstation recently that he would not be released from prison anytime soon. Responding to his father’s question about hiring a defense attorney for him, he said, “No one can do anything for me here. I am doing fine and the officers are treating me well.” After saying that sentence, he became teary-eyed and his voice cracked, and the officers quickly disconnected the call. The mother of this political prisoner, who did not want to reveal his name for fear of retribution, told Rooz, “Seeing the confessions of some of the young political activists, has made me very concerned. Every second I think they are pressuring my son too to force him to make some confession. We don’t know what has happened to him. He is not a person to cry, and the teary-eyed voice that we heard indicates the severely of pressures he is subjected to.”