While we are hearing about exiles and illegal transfer of political and ideological prisoners of Ward 350 in Evin Prison to other wards and prisons, judicial officials are dealing with these prisoners in different wards in contradictory manners.
As reported by Majzooban Noor, soon after the sudden transfer of Behzad Arabgol-the political prisoner-to Rajaie Shahr Prison, Amir Eslami, the Gonabadi Dervishes lawyer and a member of Human Rights Commission affiliated with Lawyers Association who is currently being held at Ward 350, is deprived of cultural facilities which a prisoner is legally entitled to and the law book.
Also, Farshid Yadollahi, the other Gonabadi Dervish and lawyer who has been transferred to Ward 8 of Evin Prison against the law requiring separation of prisoners based on their crimes, has been deprived of cultural and educational facilities which are available to other prisoners by the prison authorities on the pretext that he is a political prisoner and, therefore, is not allowed to use the facilities of Ward 8.
On the other hand, Reza Entesari, another Gonabadi Dervish rights activist, who has been transferred from Ward 350 to Ward 7, has been forced to wear the prison uniform on the pretext that the ward rules apply to all prisoners.
Entesari has asserted several times that he has been transferred to Ward 7 while he is a Prisoner of Conscience, and as long as he has to wear the prison uniform, he will avoid prison visits.
It should be reemphasized that following the attack carried out by the military force, prison authorities, and judicial officials on Ward 350 at Evin Prison, a new round of pressures has been exerted ranging from unwritten and illegal exiles to depriving political and ideological prisoners of the most basic educational and cultural facilities. Also, judicial and security officials have had meetings focused on the proposition of dissolving Ward 350 and sending political prisoners to different prisons in the country so that, in their own words, the only channel through which these prisoners can communicate with society and voice their opinions is blocked.