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Last Updated: 12 – Dec – 2020 19:02
Iran is committing the most egregious violations against detainees
Prisoners in Iranian prisons are subjected to the worst forms of psychological and physical torture, especially those detained for political reasons.
Amnesty International revealed that the Iranian authorities had subjected one of the prisoners of conscience to torture, ill-treatment and refusal of medication.
The Iranian authorities refused to give Behnam Mahjoubi the medication he needed due to a serious mental disorder.
Mahjoubi is one of the Sufis from Ghanabadi, a Shiite Sufi order that emerged in the 18th century in the Khorasan province.
This method accuses the Iranian government of harassing and discriminating against its followers.
The organization corresponded with the head of the country’s judiciary calling for Mahjoubi’s release, based on the advice of his psychiatrist, who said his health does not allow him to be in prison.
Instead of giving him the medicines he needed, they forcibly injected him with chemical drugs in a psychiatric hospital.
Mahjoubi was arrested last June and transferred to prison to serve a prison term of up to two years.
Iran International reported that Ibrahim Allah Bakhshi, a Ghanabadi Sufi and former prisoner of conscience in Iran, wrote on Twitter on Friday: “They avoided contact with my Mahjoub for a week, then they took my number off his phone, and today they told him that if you send a text message OR a voice, you will be disconnected from your family. “
Sufism is not prohibited in Iran, but its practice is not acceptable to conservative clerics.
And in 2018, violence erupted during a demonstration organized by members of the Sufi order in northern Tehran, protesting against the arrest of several followers of the order and due to rumors that their leader would be arrested.
The authorities arrested several of them and a member of the community was sentenced to death for running over a group of policemen with a bus during the protest, killing three of them.
As for the detainees, Amnesty said they were subjected to torture. Common torture methods include kicking and punching, hitting with plastic tubes, electric cables or a whip, and being restrained for a long time, and various forms of suspension, including the “chicken skewer” method in which a person is hung from a pole with their hands tied back and attached to their ankles, and then to their skin “.
