According to reports from Gohardasht prison in Karaj, prisoners of solitary confinement section also known as "the dog pound", protested against the barbaric conditions and inhuman tortures applied on prisoners and occupied the solitary confinement chamber for a few hours.
Since the afternoon of Sunday 25 october around h.17:30, prisoners of the solitary confinement section n. 1, also known as "the dog-pound", which is where ordinary and political prisoners are tortured under inhuman conditions, carried out wide protests. These protests started from Hosseinieh of the solitary confinement cells. Prisoners entered into a fight with their torturers and intensly beat them up. During this fight, at least 2 torturers named Mohsen Khalesi and Marjani, were injured. Other prison guards, once saw how angry the prisoners were, ran away. Prioners got the solitary confinement cell keys fom them and started opening all solitary confinment cells to free their inmates and captured the place.
These prisoners are constantly subject to physical torture, rape, beating by batons, humiliation, insults, hunger, terrible hygene conditions and are conducted towards a slow death. Tens of such prisoners every year commit suicide and some lose their lives. The occupation of the solitary confinement section last until h.21.
After prisoners got control over the torture chamber, Ali Haj Kazem, chief of the prison together with his assistant, and chief of the security section of prison, surrounded the chamber and then brutally attacked the defenceless prisoners. They used tear gas in these attacks and it all lasted a few hours. So far there are no news on the account of these prisoners.
Activists for Human Rights and Democracy in Iran, condemn the existance of the medival torture chambers in Iran prisons and ask the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights and other human rights organizatons to take proper measures to end such unbearable and inhuman actions against the prisoners in Iran.
Activists for Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
26 oct 2009
Translation: Negin
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