The family of one of the 14 people arrested in the 2022 uprising in Bukan announced that after 14 months, the security forces took these people hostage in Darya prison in Urmia.
The city of Bukan was one of the centers of Iran’s 2022 protests, which is famous for the rise of women, life, freedom.
The security forces in this city severely suppressed the protestors and more than 20 people were killed in this city and ten people were arrested. 14 of these people were arrested in a joint case.
Tifur Babamiri’s family, who were arrested in April 2023 along with 13 other people in this city, announced that despite the passage of nearly 14 months, these people have not been tried and are being detained in an indeterminate state.
They have also announced that “Tifur did not have any underlying disease, including heart failure, until he was kidnapped by the security agents of the Iranian regime, and that the heart complications during his detention were the result of terrible tortures to force a confession and the fake scenario”.
The main statement of Tifur Babamiri’s family:
April 2023, a few months after the revolutionary uprising of September 2022 and during the wave of arrests and arrests in the cities of Iran and Kurdistan, a large number of citizens of Bukan, who are mostly married and have children and spouses, named: 1- Tifur Salimi Babamiri 2- Sawareh Azizzadeh 3- Jalil Molodi 4- Hyman Kermanj 5- Ahmed Mamzadeh Bokani 6- Soran Ghasemi 7- Pazhman Soltani 8- Kaveh Salehi 9- Rozgar Babamiri 10- Joamir Mam Khosravi 11- Hossein Hosseinzadeh 12- Siamak Hayasi 13- Salahuddin Ahmadi 14- Salar Daghdar The people of Bukan were kidnapped by security agents. For months, we families didn’t even know if our loved ones were alive or not! Almost fourteen months have passed now, and they are still being held hostage in Darya Urmia Prison, in “temporary detention” and in complete uncertainty, without having committed a crime and without “judicial proceedings” on political charges.
It is worth mentioning that two months ago, after they were notified by the judicial authorities, that they can introduce the “defendants” of their choice within the next 48 hours, otherwise the Revolutionary Court will appoint a lawyer for them, most of the family Despite their poverty, the prisoners have introduced their chosen lawyer to the Urmia Revolutionary Court, so that the prisoners can benefit from this basic right, and the lawyers can stand up to defend them. At the appointed time, the lawyers of each of the prisoners meet their clients in Darya Urmia Prison and officially take over the responsibility of representing them. After a few weeks of intensive work on the cases, even the lawyers in a joint action request an emergency meeting with the judge and during a meeting at the Revolution Court, they ask the judge to keep the clients who are not in favorable physical conditions, until the court session is held. to release him on bail, but Urmia High Court rejected the request of the lawyers on the false grounds that the “accused” case has not yet been completed by the Intelligence Department (read the fake scenario has not been prepared yet). The efforts of the lawyers to get rid of the mentioned prisoners from indecision have not been fruitful until today. In the past few weeks, Tifur’s condition has worsened again due to severe heart complications caused by two strokes under the terrible torture in the single cell of the Ministry of Information, and according to the diagnosis of the doctor in the prison, the medical facilities in the prison for these cases are non-existent. The money is unresponsive and Tifur needs immediate treatment outside the prison. However, despite the medical recommendations of the case judge and prison authorities, until the moment of preparing this news, they refused to send Tifur to the hospital for treatment. Even the request of the lawyer to immediately transfer his client to a cardiologist was unsuccessful and they said that the specialist was called to the prison area!
We, the family members of the political prisoner Tifur Babamiri, declare explicitly that until the time of his abduction by the security agents of the Iranian regime, Tifur did not have any underlying disease, including heart failure, and the heart complications during his detention were only caused by the terrible tortures to force him to confess. And the scenario is burnt, for this reason, we hold the director of Darya Urmia Prison and the judge of the Revolutionary Court and the officials of the Ministry of Information of the Islamic Republic of Iran to be directly responsible for John Tifur and the other mentioned prisoners.
The political prisoner should be released immediately and unconditionally!
On behalf of Tifur Babamiri family