Presence in Evin prison for a Speech

Compiled by: Islamic Revolution Website
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2024-10-2


It was the time after evening prayer and I prayed there. I stayed there for two or three hours and they talked to me. The officer and head of Qalhak police station was a bad and malicious person and harassed me. Then they took it to the joint committee. More interrogations were carried out in the joint committee and from there they were transferred to Evin prison. The room where I was imprisoned had three or four people, and Ayatollah Jannati, Mr. Mahalati, Mr. Fazel Harandi, and Mr. Sheikh Jafar Esfahani were there. Mr. Salehi Khansari was also in prison, so we were not in the same room. I was imprisoned here for some time and my investigations and interrogations were done. Some friends were released, but they did not release me due to the sensitivity of this pulpit.

I was in a happy mood when I went to prison and I didn't try to create another prison regime in me after the prison because the state of depression caused other prisoners to suffer and sorrow.

Among the other things I used to do was that whenever the prisoners passed by our room to use the bathroom, I would ask them in Arabic and from their answer I would understand that it was from us. The first time this person passed, it was difficult for him, but the second time he passed, he prepared himself to exchange information. This issue was very important in those prison conditions.

Until then, I had not been taken to Evin prison. In fact, this prison was the newest and most modern prison that was built during the Shah's time to suppress the fighters. They took me to solitary confinement where the conditions were very difficult and there was no possibility of communication. There was a small window in front of the solitary cell door through which the officer looked at the prisoners.

In this prison, they interrogated me several times and asked me about the motives of this speech and who were my four hosts? In response, I said that an assembly was held for Shahidi and they invited me to participate in this assembly. I didn't talk about Mr. Maleki for the society of fighting clerics who organized this assembly, then I said about the text of the speech, I said things related to Jihad in the way of Islam and verses, hadiths and hadiths.

They were looking for Bucky and who I am in contact with and what activities I do and in this way they wanted to get information. But I did not speak at all and they completed the case in the same way and sent it to the military court of the army at that time. I was taken twice for trial, once to the investigator where the army saw my case and asked me questions to complete the case, and once to the court. The courts of that time were prescriptive and only relied on what SAVAK reported; They also voted. Therefore, they sentenced me to two years in prison. While they have nothing but a speech from me. After solitary confinement, I was transferred to the general ward. The upper floor was the general ward of the scholars and clerics, and they transferred me there, where there were 40 or 50 students and clerics, including Ayatollah Taleghani, Mr. Montazeri, Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani, and the late Mr. Lahoti, Mr. Mutalbi[1] and Mr. Doagu[2] And there were many well-known practical men like Mr. Javadi Qomi[3] In prison, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani was working on the Quran, with whom I collaborated. Mr. Montazeri also had jurisprudential debates in which I also participated, and congregational prayers were held under the leadership of Mr. Taleghani and sometimes Mr. Montazeri. I was in this prison until I was released from prison. Of course, before I entered the scholars and clerics section, I was in a section where there were various religious and non-religious prisoners.[4]

 


 

[1] Mr. Matlabi is now [1997] the imam prayer of the Abu Dhar mosque.

[2] Mr. Daagu was the imam of Friday Lavasanat and was in the Broadcasting Supervisory Council.

[3]They are in the Institute of Imam's Artifacts and in the Imam's Shrine

[4] Abbas Panahi, Memoirs of Hojjat-ul-Islam Mohadi Saveji (pbuh), Ch. 2, 2002, Publications of the Islamic Revolution Documentation Center, pp. 218-216.

 



 
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