Iranian dissident who disappeared in Turkey resurfaces in Evin prison
Mohammad Bagher Moradi who took refuge in Turkey has ended up in Iran's notorious Evin prison, five months after he went missing in Ankara, his lawyer told Al-Monitor.
A dissident Iranian journalist who went missing in Turkey in May has resurfaced in the hands of the Iranian authorities and was placed in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, according to his lawyer in Turkey.
Mohammad Bagher Moradi contacted his family in November for the first time since his disappearance in Ankara, saying he was in custody in Tehran, and made a second call in early December to say he was put in Evin Prison, attorney Salih Efe told Al-Monitor.
Evin prison which usually hosts political prisoners including foreign citizens, has often come under international scrutiny over reported torture, rampant human right abuses and maltreatment of political prisoners.
According to Efe, the 34-year-old Moradi was abducted by unidentified people at around 10 p.m., local time, on May 30 while on his way home in the Turkish capital. The lawyer cited witnesses as saying that two men clad in black left Moradi’s car on a street near his home the following morning.
