Head of Prisons admits to having security prisoners and torture in the Iranian prisons
NCRI – Yesterday, the Prisons and Corrections Organization (SPO) chief, Ali Akbar Yasaqi in an interview with the state-run news agency ISNA admitted that the “security” prisoners and torture exist in the prisons.
“We need security detention centers because any [political] establishment has to face people who act against its domestic as well as foreign security interests…the SPO is only implementing the prisoners’ sentence. Flogging is not performed by us even though the prison environment allows such practices,” he said.
Yasaqi admitted to having executed minors and said, “There exists a debate among jurists as to what would the legal age be for a criminal to be treated as an adult for standing full trial. Some believe that the legal age is eighteen, as it is recognized internationally, some others believe that fifteen years of age for males and nine years for females is the legal age in accordance with the Islamic laws.”
On July 19, the managing director of the Prisons’ Inspection Organization, Syeed Aqa-Sadeqi brazenly denied having “even a single political prisoner.”
The mullahs’ regime desperate in combating the growing popular uprisings has utilized suppression and public hangings.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary General and all other human rights organizations to increasing human rights violation in Iran and called for a constant monitoring of human rights conditions in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 22, 2007
