IWAC – Hadi (Abbass) Mirzayi, a graduate of power engineering at Beheshti Uni., master of music from Art Uni., artist, and stamp specialist; arrested in Sattarkhan St., Tehran, on Dec. 10 and, according to the independent art news agencies on social media reporting a month after his arrest, apart from two short one-minute calls from prison made to his family, there had been no further update on his status or reasons for arrest and judicial authorities had disclosed no information about his place of detention, nor about the reason for his arrest and there had been no update on his health condition to that date; his family had been merely informed that his case had been registered in the 2nd division of Evin’s Public Persecution Office; according to reports published later on social media on Jan. 24, 2023, he has managed to inform his transference to ward 6, in Tehran’s Central Prison; according to these reports, he also has informed that he had been kept in solitary confinement for two weeks under persecution and extreme mental pressure and regardless of the fact that he has been in detention for over six weeks, the division of the referent Persecution Office for his case was not determined yet and he has been denied any access to his elected legal representative in the absence of any legal proceedings; in addition, he is faced with such charges as “conspiracy and collusion,” propaganda against the regime,” “instigation of disorder,” and “promotion of obscenity;” however, to this date, 2/16/2023, and nearly 70 days after his initial arrest, he is still in detention and the fact that he is still in detention in very unclear circumstances, despite the execution of the so-called “circular letter of judiciary public pardon,” and the release of many protestors and political prisoners, and still not temporarily released from prison, there is a rising fear that he might have been targeted for very heavy and extremely unfair penal verdict; as mentioned above, in addition to his educational background in such study areas as power engineering and music, he is one of the most exemplar stamp experts in Iran with five volumes of books published by him about this particular topic; by now it has become clear that during the initial stage of his arrest, he had been kept in solitary confinement for 14 days in the notorious security-run Ward Alef (A) and, in that period, had been threatened with execution by the persecutors, as a means for further torture and pressure, until he was transferred to Tehran’s Central Prison; more importantly, last week and in a less than five minute show trial chaired by the notorious judge, Salavati, he was charged with espionage by recording a film in the streets (during demonstrations) and this is while he has not sent any visually recorded item to any other individual and has been recording images in a public street and not any confidential or security-wise sensitive site; in addition, despite the writ of bail-deposit being issued, security forces and prison authorities have refused him a temporary release from prison on bail; moreover, he is vegetarian and given the unsuitable nutritional circumstances in prison, he has been forced to suffer from alarming weight loss; lastly, following the violent raid of the security forces to their house, persecutions, and the indecisive conditions of her son’s case, her mother has also gone through heart complications and nervous breakdown and is not presently in any good condition. Later, news sources in social networks stated that on Apr. 6, 2023, that is one day before his birthday, he was finally transferred to Evin Prison; before that, there was a musical piece created by him in prison released in which he himself sings a poem written by Ali Assadollahi, a poet himself arrested in the course of Zhina (Mahsa) Movement. It must be added that this political prisoner and musician was not even included in what came to be known as judiciary public pardon by which many protestors and political prisoners got released from prison and many cases as such announced closed and thus he in detention to this date, 4/12/2023; not only that, recently, on Apr. 11, 2023, Iran Follow-up Committee which exclusively investigates reports of the arrested protestors of Zihna (Mahsa) Movement reported that there had been reports about his transference to solitary confinement at a security ward in Evin Prison after being transferred to this prison from Tehran’s Great Prison. In addition, the same news source stated that it is not clear after four months of indecisive detention why he is once again put to solitary confinement.
