NCRI – The mullahs' inhuman regime handcuffed and hanged a prisoner named Mohammadreza Rafiyani, by his arms, from the ceiling of his cell in the central city of Kashan on Thursday.
The following morning when his jailers opened the cell, both of his arms were crippled as he was hanged all night long.
Rafiyani was tortured because he protested earlier to insanitary prison conditions.
Many prisoners have mysteriously died in the Iranian regime's prisons over the past three decades. Later investigations into some of these cases revealed that the prisoner had been severely tortured before his death.
A famous case is that of the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi who was murdered in the summer of 2003 after being tortured in the notorious Evin prison by Tehran's current prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.
Although the clerical regime's authorities insist that her death was accidental and that she died of a stroke while being interrogated, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who left Iran and sought asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi's body and observed evidence of rape and torture, including a skull fracture, broken nose, crushed toe, missing fingernails, broken fingers, and severe abdominal bruising. The Canadian government, as well as Kazemi's family and supporters, consider her death to be state-sanctioned murder.
