Safaei Farahani returned to prison after heart attack

GVF -- Imprisoned reformist Mohsen Safaei Farahani has been transferred to ward 350 of Evin prison after having been hospitalised following a heart attack last week.

According to the Kaleme website, following the heart attack, Farahani was taken to the infirmary of Iran’s notorious Evin prison and then to Tehran’s Modares and Heart Hospitals. On Monday morning, the senior reformist figure was transferred back to Evin prison after being released from hospital and his family were able to visit him in prison in the afternoon for a brief reunion.

Safaei Farahani is a member of the central council of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (Mosharekat) and was recalled to Evin prison after joining six other leading reformist figures in launching a lawsuit against a commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard forces as well as the IRGC itself for their role in widespread rigging during the June 2009 presidential election and the electoral coup that saw Ahmadinejad regain control of government for another four years.

In a letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary, Sadegh Larijani as well as the head of judicial branch of the armed forces, Mohammad Kazem Bahrami, the seven men pressed charges against a group of military and intelligence officers including an individual referred to as "Commander Moshfegh", who appeared to have been a senior intelligence officer at the IRGC’s Sarallah base.

The letter which was published in opposition websites and signed by reformist figures Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramzanzadeh, Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Safaei Farahani, Mohsen Mirdamadi and Behzad Nabavi.

Safaei Farahani was arrested shortly after the fraudulent presidential election of 2009 and then released on a heavy bail after months of imprisonment. Along with Tajzadeh, he was sent back to prison after his refusal to withdraw his complaint against the IRGC.

Safaei Farahani was an MP representing the people of Tehran from 1999 to 2003 as well as the president of the Iranian Football Federation from 1998 to 2002.