Khaled Pirzadeh was deprived of the right to make phone calls for more than three months due to the fact that he made a wooden sign in support of the plaintiffs and engraved the words “Cho Iran nadasde tun man mobad” [ If not Iran. I don’t want to be either]on that sign.
Now it is clear that the interrogators had asked Khaled Pirzadeh to stop supporting the families of the plaintiffs in return for the return of work tools and the right to call. that Khalid set himself on fire in protest.
Khaled Pirzadeh, a champion of bodybuilding, a civil activist who was arrested while writing slogans in 2017. In 2018, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was tortured many times and even twice while his eyes were closed, he was hanged with the rope. During his detention, he went on hunger strike several times in protest against repeated disrespect to his family.
Khaled was sentenced to 5 years and eight months in prison again in 2023 on charges of “assembly and collusion” and “propaganda against the system”. He had boiled beer in prison, he suffered 15% second degree burns on his hands, face and chest.
After his condition worsened in Beheshti Hospital in Tehran and lack of proper care, this political prisoner was transferred to Motahari Hospital in Tehran at his own expense this morning and underwent surgery yesterday (July 19).
Khalid Pirzadeh, a constitutionalist political prisoner in Evin prison, committed self-immolation in protest against the ban on telephone calls and visits for more than seventy days.
This political prisoner has been deprived of making phone calls with his family for more than seventy days.
Khaled Pirzadeh is currently serving his sentence in Evin prison and is facing a ban on visits and contacts.
Mr. Pirzadeh suffers from heart disease, he has been denied the possibility of making a phone call with his family since the 30th of April due to making a sign for a group of petitioning families.
The authorities of Evin prison have banned Khaled Pirzadeh from contacting his family since April 30 because of making a signboard for a group of petitioning families.
On this board, which is made of wood, it is written: “If not Iran. I don’t want to be either”
Depriving this political prisoner of the right to contact his relatives while he is suffering from a heart disease, and this situation “caused the concerns of his relatives and friends.
Khaled Pirzadeh was arrested last time in September 2023 by the agents of the Ministry of Information of the Islamic Republic in Ahvaz.
Khalid Pirzadeh, the former bodybuilding champion of Iran, was first arrested in June 2018 by government forces. In February of the same year, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on the charge of “association and collusion” and “insulting the leadership” and during his imprisonment he contracted many diseases, so that he lost his ability to move and even control his excrement. .
While this political prisoner was released in December 2023 , he was arrested again in September of this year while traveling to Turkey and has been in prison since then.