Political Prisoner Soheil Arabi on his Transfer to Exile
Soheil Arabi posted the below text on his Twitter Account:
https://x.com/Soheil_Arabi_/status/1465617999960981505
About #Exile: After a seven month delay in issuing the release order due to a miscalculation of the furlogh days, finally they told my attorney on November 16 to deposit three million tomans for my transport to the Borazjan police station so that implementation of the sentence of exile could be carried out. After depositing, one day later, without prior warning, they transferred me very quickly and "revolutionarily" from Raja'i prison, without the opportunity to say goodbye to my fellow prisoners, to a very dirty cell crowded with criminal, Shi'a prisoners, like drug addicts and robbers. I was in that cell for six hours alongside addicts and was suffocating from the smell of drugs.........until a person named Sarvan Ramazani said there was no plane ticket, we'll go to Borazjan by private car. They took me and two other prisoners to Borazjan in a clunky old Peugeot, the driver was drunk, fell asleep several times, and swerved into the opposite lane. I screamed, "three thousand days of imprisonment didn't kill me, you want to kill us for three minutes of rest? In addition to three million, they even took our dinner money. 80,000 tomans. At 3 A.M., they handed us over at the Borazjan police station and Sarvan Ramazani left. I asked, "really, couldn't I have come here myself? I, who was on bail and suffering trauma, shouldn't have travelled in a small space with two other prisoners on this long trip with this horrible driving." He didn't answer and left. The police station officials also said to me, go during office hours for the introduction process and to register my exile. I was stranded in a strange city at 3 A.M. I had no money in my pocket, no telephone, how was I supposed to inform my family? Only 40-50 big stray dogs came to me in that darkness, I waited on the street until 9 A.M. for a person to lend me his telephone so I could inform my family. At 11 A.M., I got to the police station with a thousand difficulties and registered myself. The police station agents said I can't enter a police station wearing the informal clothes that I had on (I was transferred here from prison with the comfortable clothes that I had on, sweatpants and a T-shirt), I said, where do I procure formal clothes when they didn't give me permission to go home and procure the necessary items for exile??????????? #Continued#Part One#Soheil Arabi