By Jila Baniyaghoob(1)<\/p>\n
Monday, 31 October 2011 <\/p>\n
Today, in Evin Prison\u2019s meeting hall, they beat up Mohammad-Reza Moqisseh\u2019s son, Mostafa. Mohammad-Reza Moqisseh is a journalist, one of our very good colleagues. He has been a member of the presiding board of the Association of Iranian Journalists. He\u2019s very serious, and had with a very good reputation in following up his colleagues\u2019 cases. I wanted to know what had caused the beating up of his son, and asked many of the prisoners\u2019 families what had happened.<\/p>\n
Most replied that Mostafa had been using a table in the meeting hall to fill in the \u2018meeting card\u2019 so he could see his father. A prison official, a private doing his compulsory military service, had told Mostafa that he did not have the right to use the table and had to fill in the card while standing. This seems to have led to a verbal argument, followed by two or three men ganging up on Mostafa and beating him up.<\/p>\n
For a long time, there has been a table in the left-hand corner of the ground-floor of meeting building, on top of which one finds the blue \u2018meeting cards\u2019. Every week, we pick up these cards and fill them in with our personal details and those of the prisoners we would like to meet and hand them over to the, no doubt good-tempered, officers in charge of the meeting hall. An hour, or hours, later, they would call us to say we should go up to the second floor of the building for the meeting. <\/p>\n
Today, when I went to the same table, I noticed a piece of paper underneath the glass top, with a note which said: \u2018Avoid using the table to fill in the meeting card.\u2019 With the beating up of Mostafa Moqisseh on my mind, I approached an officer standing near the table and said: \u2018Why don\u2019t you let us use the table to fill the cards from today? Is it made of gold or silver, and you\u2019re worried that it might be worn out?\u2019<\/p>\n
The officer, a private doing his compulsory military service, said: \u201cI\u2019m nobody. This order\u2019s come from my superior. But if you had heard his argument, even you would have agreed that this is the right decision.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Please tell me your superior\u2019s argument,\u2019 I said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Well,\u2019 he said, \u2018very often, it\u2019s women who come to visit [the prisoners]. When they bend over to fill in the cards, they have their backs to the crowd standing behind them. Well, when this bending over of theirs might create a pleasant scene for some of the men standing behind them…\u2019<\/p>\n
I could not bring myself to hear the rest of what he said. \u2018What on earth are you talking about?\u2019 I said. \u2018First of all, the person who was beaten up today for bending over and filling the card on the table was a man, not a woman. Secondly, I am amazed that your superior has such a creative mind, which makes him have thoughts that would never cross our minds.\u2019<\/p>\n
Some \u2018argument\u2019; wouldn\u2019t you say so?<\/p>\n
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