According to reports, on Thursday December 16, political prisoner Mostafa Eskandari was beaten for wanting to give a medical prescription to his elderly mother in the Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. The prison infirmary had prescribed and approved the medication for him to provide from outside of prison.
One of the prison guards in the visiting hall prevented him from seeing and giving the prescription to his mother under the excuse that the prescription had to be approved by the head of the Intelligence Agency. This is while, according to normal prescription procedures, it only has to be approved by the head of the prison infirmary.
Mostafa Eskandari protested being banned from giving the prescription to his mother and from seeing her. The prison guard then started using profane language to insult him and his family while pushing and yelling at him. At the same time, the head of cellblock 4, Talivardi, attacked this political prisoner and started punching him threatening that he would be transferred to a solitary cell where he would be tortured…
Eskandari’s elderly mother who had come a long way to see her son from behind an dirty glass and metal bars was forced to go home without seeing her son after waiting for hours. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Dec. 16, 2011)