Activist & political prisoner, Arjang Davoodi exiled to Bandar-Abbass prison

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzzi

Based on received reports, Arjang Davoodi, who has been incarcerated at the horrifying Rejaiishahr prison in the Tehran suburb of Karadj, in a short conversation with his family said that his 14 year prison sentence has been confirmed and is being transferred to Bandar-Abbass prison in the southern most province of Iran where his family will not be able to readily visit him.

Davoodi who in prison, wrote a book about the interrogations, tortures and horrors of his days in "solitary" had his manuscript privately delivered to a book publishing company for publication and distribution. The secret service agents of the Ministry of Information however intercepted the manuscript by attacking the printing house, severely injuring the employees and arresting the publisher, leading to his imprisonment, as well. Davoodi had been threatened to be transferred, several times by the Mullah Director of the 26th Revolutionary Court in Tehran.

50-year-old Arjang Davoudi, an engineer, teacher and poet was sentenced to 14 years in prison and 70 lashes for aiding foreign journalist, Jane Kokan, secretly produce a documentary about the Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died under torture in Evin Prison in the summer of 2003. Davoudi was severely beaten in prison and was held in solitary confinement for more than 100 days.