According to reports from human rights activists, Hassan Wadaipour (Naseri), an Ahwazi Arab political prisoner held in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad, was transferred to solitary confinement this morning, Thursday, 22 Aban (12 November), on the order of the prison’s Intelligence Protection Unit.

Sources report that he has been denied phone calls and family visits. A source close to the Wadaipour family stated:
“This transfer took place after he asked, during his recent phone call, about the situation of Ahmad Baledi, the young man from Ahwaz who set himself on fire in protest against the demolition of his family’s kiosk.”

This political prisoner had previously been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Ahwaz Revolutionary Court to 20 years of exile-imprisonment on charges of “moharebeh” (enmity against God) and acting against national security through contact with hostile states. After some time, he was transferred from Sabzevar Prison to Mashhad Prison.

Hassan Wadaipour, approximately 38 years old and from Tostar (Shushtar), was arrested in Farvardin 1390 (April 2011) and spent several months under interrogation at the Iranian Intelligence Detention Center in Ahwaz, where he was subjected to coerced interrogations and forced televised confessions.