Ali Asghar Jahangir chief of prisons in Iran says that there are no political prisoners in the country. However, a large number of political activists, critics and journalists remain in prison in Iran.
Jhanygr in an interview with official Iranian News Agency (IRNA) said: "In our country political prisoners in the prisons of the world there would be no definition."
According to him, "We have very few security prison. Ie those who have risked national security and public debate such as insecurity, confusion, and anti-security issues involved. Although statistics the number of prisoners is minimal. "
Since the beginning of the Iranian revolution, many critics and political activists protesting party members were imprisoned. The prisoners were executed on various charges in both periods.
In the new era Iran after the 2009 presidential election, reformist parties was witnessed mass arrests of critics and political activists.The interesting thing is that "political offense" is not defined in Iranian law and all critics were arrested on charges.
مشاور رئیس قوه قضاییه جمهوری اسلامی ایران در پاسخ به سوالی مبنی بر انتشار اخباری در خصوص اعتصاب غذای برخی از زندانیان و عدم دسترسی آنها به وکیل گفت: «عدم دسترسی به وکیل به هیچ وجه درست نیست.این مساله از حقوق عادی در تمام زندان ها and for all the prisoners. "
However, in recent days, attorneys son Siamak B. prayer and prayer that the American-Iranian citizen, said that so far has not met with clients and their cases have not read.
جهانگیر ادامه داد: «آن کسانی که گاها اقدام به اعتصاب غذا می کنند از این موضوع استفاده ابزاری می کنند و عمدتا کسانی هستند که می خواهند از این طریق در فضای رسانه ای قرار بگیرند و از نظر تبلیغی فضایی را برای خود فراهم کنند».