Vahid Sorkhgol, Monarchist Political Prisoner, Warns About the Dey Uprising Detainees

In the name of Iran

Without exaggeration, and setting aside all factional divides, something must be done about this scale of systematic pressure and cruelty against the political prisoners of the recent protests — prisoners who, in a cage like Evin and a dungeon like Unit 3 of Qezel Hesar Prison, are held in the worst conditions and subjected to insults, humiliation, verbal abuse, and even beatings.

In Evin Prison, a savage wolf like Yousefi, the so-called deputy for "health," has become the handler of guards who treat political prisoners as if they were slaves — guards whose only occupation is insulting and humiliating them and pushing them toward synthetic drugs, something we are certain is planned and deliberate.

Meanwhile, the political prisoners held in Qezel Hesar have been beaten from the moment they arrived. Some of them have spent more than four months in solitary-confinement cells holding several times their capacity — without phone contact, without fresh air, and even without adequate access to water for hygiene.

Even now they are being held in a hall of that same unit — one assigned to Rajaei-Shahr Prison, adjacent to the wards for murder and rape convicts — with not even minimal facilities: no adequate or suitable space, no daily phone rights, restricted access to fresh air, some deprived of cabin visits, and dozens of other deprivations that extend even to suitable drinking water.

It is implausible that senior prison officials are unaware of this situation. They are actors in a state-run theater — a script in which the children of this very plundered land are used to plant fear in the hearts of the people of my homeland.

While a new danger looms over the lives of our brothers and sisters every day, and the ropes that bruise necks and cut off breath continue to claim victims, we must not be drawn into the regime’s spectacles.

I call on all media that genuinely care about Iran — not those busy with partisan clowning — on international and human rights institutions, and on the discerning, fearless people of Iran to find an effective remedy for the situation of political prisoners: from those detained during the twelve-day war to the protesters arrested in the recent protests and the current war.

These lionhearted young people have been, and remain, the cry and the roar of the silence of a people who have endured years of oppression and repression.

Long live Iran

June 2026

Vahid Sorkhgol

Qezel Hesar Prison