A prisoner was killed under torture in Tehran prison

A Kurdish prisoner from Harsin province in Kermanshah named Saman Darvishi was killed due to beating and torture

11 May 2023 16:40

 

Hengaw: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
 

A Kurdish prisoner from Harsin province in Kermanshah named Saman Darvishi was killed due to beating and torture by security forces in Tehran's large prison.
 

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Monday evening, May 8, 2023, a prisoner named Saman Darvishi, 31, from Harsin, was killed in Tehran (Fashafuye) prison due to beatings and torture by government forces.
 

Hengaw has been informed that, during the last year, government agents severely beat and tortured Saman Darvishi several times for injuring an agent during detention, and once again he went into a coma.
 

It should be noted that last year, Saman Darvishi was arrested on the charge of theft and transferred to Fashafuye prison. Previously, he was imprisoned in Karaj Central Prison for three years.
 

Based on the statistics registered in the Statistics and Documents Center of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at least 16 prisoners have died in Iran's prisons since the beginning of this year, 11 of whom were Kurdish prisoners.


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