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The Iranian regime is committing the most heinous violations of prisoners and detainees in a political context. In its annual report on the human rights situation in Iran in 2020, the Iranian Observatory for Human Rights highlighted the conditions of prisoners and their rights, which began with years in prison pending investigation and tragic prison conditions.
Violation of the principle of separation of categories of crimes
The report says that the Iranian authorities are transferring political detainees and prisoners of conscience to the rooms of common prisoners for serious crimes, to put pressure on them.
In Karaj Central Prison, for example, one of the main problems faced by political prisoners is the violation of the principle of segregation between categories of crimes.
The authorities used the Spidar prison in Ahwaz to mix prisoners from various groups as a tool of torture and put more pressure on political prisoners.
There are many reports of violations of this principle in the Qarchak prison in Varamin, the great prison in Tehran and many other prisons.
The opposition, Parastu Moein and Foro Tagipur, who are incarcerated in Qarchak prison, were attacked by several inmates appointed by the prison director on September 14, 2020.
Mercenaries attacked political prisoners in wing 6 of Qarchak prison with boiling water.
Prior to that, on June 13, 2020, political prisoner Zahra Safaei was threatened with death by several other prisoners named by the director of Qarchak prison.
Wasfi is the mother of Barastou Moein, who is also incarcerated in Qarchak Prison.
In July 2020, labor activist Jaafar Azim Zadeh was assaulted twice by two inmates. He did not know any of the attackers.
In all cases, the prison authorities did not take steps to stop the attacks or to investigate them.
Unlimited solitary confinement
The widespread and prolonged use of solitary confinement is one of the mullahs’ judicial methods of torturing prisoners in Iran. The judiciary uses solitary confinement as a form of pressure on prisoners, to break their hunger strike, for example.
Protesters arrested during the November 2019 uprising were held in solitary confinement for long periods.
They were also denied medical treatment for injuries sustained during the protest or under torture.
Dissidents imprisoned for weeks and months were also held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer or contact with their families.
After the execution of 27-year-old wrestling champion Naveed Afkari, who was arrested during a popular protest, the regime transferred his two brothers to an isolation cell in a high-security room in the basement of Adel prison. Abbot in Shiraz.
Furthermore, 67-year-old political prisoner Arjang Daoud is being held in solitary confinement in Zabul Prison without minimal facilities.
Daoud has been imprisoned for 17 years and has been held in solitary confinement for the past 4 years in the Zabul and Zahedan prisons in Sistan and Baluchistan in southeastern Iran.
He was not allowed to communicate with any prisoners during this period, and even prisoners held in adjacent cells were unable to speak to him.
Denial of treatment
The regime continued to increase pressure on prisoners over the past year by denying them access to medical treatment.
Judicial officials specifically exploited the Corona virus as a tool to torture prisoners, as they issued dozens of reports regarding prisoners who were denied access to medical and health care, especially political prisoners.
Political prisoner Genghis Ghadam Khairi has been suffering from infection and kidney dysfunction for two years, and has been denied an operation despite doctors’ prescriptions and recommendations.
Civil activist Saeed Igbali, incarcerated in Evin Prison, was denied medical treatment, despite doctor’s orders to send him to hospital.
Creating new cases against prisoners
On December 23, 2020, political prisoner Suhail Orabi, who is being held at Rajeshir Prison in Karaj, was summoned on new charges brought against him in a new case.
Political prisoner Najat Anwar Hamidi was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for a new case brought against her while in detention.
Hamidi was transferred to Spidar Prison in Ahvaz in March 2018 to serve a 5-year prison sentence for “belonging to opposition groups on the Internet” and “anti-state propaganda”.
Hit and attack the prisoners
Security forces resorted to severe violence on March 30 and 31, 2020 to quell protests by inmates at Sabidar and Sheban prisons in Ahvaz, the capital of southwestern Iran’s Khuzestan province.
The detainees demanded their right to health, but the security forces opened fire on them.
At least 36 prisoners were killed and more than 80 jailed political activists were exposed
Tortured, as a result, the report adds.
Prisoners drugged by protesters
The report also revealed that prison guards and intelligence agents were involved in smuggling drugs into the prison.
Prison authorities deliberately bring in large quantities of drugs to encourage inmates to abuse them.
Drugs are known to abound in Iranian prisons, because the prison authorities themselves are responsible for drug trafficking gangs inside the prisons.
“The addiction of young protesters who rise up against oppression and injustice is a method that the Iranian judiciary uses systematically through experienced mafia gangs,” according to the report.
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