Bijan Kazemi, a political prisoner held in Tehran’s Evin Prison, was sentenced by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court to a total of 37 years and six months in prison. Kazemi was arrested in the city of Kuhdasht after the killing of Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, two Supreme Court judges, on January 19, 2025.
Shahnaz Khosravi, the mother of political prisoner Bijan Kazemi, reported that he had been transferred to one of the Ministry of Intelligence’s safe houses outside Tehran Province. Kazemi has been detained since January 2025, and security agents have reportedly tried to force him to confess that he supplied the weapon used in the attack on Razini and Moghiseh.
High-Ranking Iranian Regime Judges Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini Killed
Kazemi’s mother stated that her son, along with other detainees, is being held in separate cells in groups of three or four at one of the Ministry of Intelligence’s safe houses outside Tehran Province. She wrote that the lives of Bijan and other political prisoners are in danger.
Addressing the people of Iran, Khosravi wrote: “Let us turn the freedom of political prisoners not merely into a demand, but into the shared cry of a nation; a national demand for dignity, justice, and humanity.”
Following Israel’s attack on Evin Prison in June 2025, security agencies of the Iranian regime transferred hundreds of recently detained individuals and prisoners held in Evin’s security wards to safe houses and a newly established security detention facility inside Greater Tehran Penitentiary.
One of those transferred was Bijan Kazemi, who was arrested after several security agents raided his home in Kuhdasht County, searched the house, and confiscated all electronic devices belonging to him and his family members.
Kazemi, who had also been arrested in 2020 and imprisoned for two years, has been deprived of his legal rights as a political defendant during his latest detention.
Security agents arrested Kazemi on charges related to the killing of Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, two Supreme Court judges involved in mass executions of dissidents, and are attempting to force him to confess that he supplied the attacker’s weapon.
Moghiseh and Razini were shot and killed at their workplace inside the Supreme Court on January 18, 2025.
