NCRI – Prisoners who were recently injured in a skirmish in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, are being kept in cruel and inhumane living conditions.
There were reports of a recent confrontation in the ordinary prisoners’ section of Gohardasht, with some reports suggesting that the confrontation was instigated by the regime’s elements inside the prison.
In order to step up pressure on prisoners who were injured in the recent unrest, these prisoners have been denied proper access to medical care. Instead they have been transferred to Hall 33 of Ward 10 where conditions are at sub-human level.
There is no light in the cells, and the prisoners are denied basic items for personal or collective hygiene. The ward is also infested with virus-carrying bugs, cockroaches, lice and fleas.
A number of prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest their inhumane conditions.