Political Prisoner Tortured in Solitary Cell

09/15/2011

According to reports, political prisoner Afshin Baimani was subjected to torture for five hours in the Sepah Cellblock run by the Intelligence Agency in Gohardasht [Rajayi Shahr] Prison in Karaj.

On Wednesday, September 7, Afshin Baimani who is sentenced to life in prison was taken to the Sepah Cellblock where he was interrogated and tortured for more than five hours by intelligence interrogators to the extent that he sustained injuries in his knee and shoulder.

The head of the interrogators was an agent named Mohebi who is a well-known torturer in Gohardasht Prison. He threatened this political prisoner that he could change his life in prison sentence to execution. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Sep. 9, 2011)

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