Human rights activist Dr. Firoozi is under severe physical and psychological pressure in Evin prison to accept false allegations.
RAHANA – Human rights activist, Dr. Hesam Firoozi is continually under severe pressure in Tehran’s Evin prison to accept false allegations. Following a prison visit in March, Dr. Firoozi’s wife said that he had lost about 20 kilograms in less than a month.
A recently released prisoner of Evin’s Ward 2A informed RAHANA, that Dr. Firoozi has been subject to harsh physical and psychological torture to confess and accept false allegations.
According to the released prisoner, other human rights activists are also under pressure and are being tortured at Ward 2A, which is under the supervision of the Revolutionary Guards. Currently a number of rights activists are detained in Ward 2A, including Abdolreza Ahmadi, Abolfazl Abedini, Alireza Firoozi, Milad Ebrahimian, and Mohammad Reza Lotfi, amongst others.
Blogger and human rights activist, Dr. Hesam Firoozi was arrested and taken to Evin on March 3, 2010, during a wave of arrests targeting human rights activists nationwide.
Dr. Firoozi has only called his family once since his arrest. On March 22nd, his wife visited him with the presence of [security] agents. Since that date his family has had no news of him and is increasingly concerned about his condition. Judicial authorities refuse to answer the family’s inquiries.
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