Group of prisoners badly hurt and 13 put into solitary confinement
NCRI – According to information received by the Iranian Resistance, prison guards and torturers in Gohar-Dasht Prison on May 14 beat up and brutally tortured prisoners on death row in Hall 1 of Ward 1 in order to create a greater atmosphere of terror and fear. Some of the prisoners had their arms, legs, nose or jaws broken or injured.
Khadam, chief of Ward 1, brutally attacked Messrs. Farzad Shahi, Zabihollah yar-Ahmadi and Sadeq Kouhi and transferred them to solitary confinement.
A day earlier, prison guards in Ward 6 of the prison, under the direction of the ward's chief Saeedi, beat up defenceless prisoners. The guards then transferred 13 of the prisoners, including Salaheddin Jaafari, a Kurd, to solitary confinement in Ward 1.
Some of the torturers who took part in the brutal crackdown on prisoners in Gohar-Dasht were:
Ali Hajj Kazem, prison chief; Ali Mohammadi, operational director; Kermani, head of intelligence and security; Nabiollah Faraj-Nejad, deputy head of intelligence and security; Khadam, Ward 1 chief; Akhariyan, Ward 2 chief; Mahmoud Moqniyan, Ward 4 chief; and Saeedi, Ward 6 chief.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights bodies, in particular the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to condemn these violent attacks and pressures on prisoners. It urges them to send a fact-finding mission to see to the appalling state of those languishing in the prisons of the religious fascism ruling Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 17, 2009
