Let's be the voice for tortured Iranian Prisoners!
Mehnoush is an Iranian refugee currently living in Sweden awaiting an interview to determine her residency. She is a human rights activist for her people living in Iran, the biggest prison in the world since 1979.
Unfortunately,
during the last 38 years that the dictator Islamic regime has been
ruling Iran, the vicious authorities have imposed any possible kind of
harassment and torture on Iranian people, especially those who are imprisoned.
Sometimes we get to hear the news of both physical and spiritual tortures of
Iranian prisoners and sometimes don't. Now, let's be the voice of these captive
people and let the rest of the world know about them, the people who get
tortured, physically as well as spiritually,in the worst possible way ever!
One such significant
torture is long-term solitary confinement during which darkness rules every
corner and no light can penetrate into or no news from the outer world is
heard. In this situation, the prisoner delves into the cell's darkness and undergoes
silent breakdowns. In other circumstances, along with such spiritual tortures, the
physical torture of other prisoners and their moans of pain gets silenced by
the thick walls of the prison. There are heartless executioners who hang men
and women prisoners from the ceiling, make them lie down on so-called
"miracle beds" and torture them by whipping, electric shocks, heating
men's penis by scorching skewers, ironing women's breasts and pulling finger or
toenails off savagely. If one survives these beds and confesses to doing
whatever she or he has not actually committed, he or she may rise up, but many people
cannot tolerate the pressure and die very quickly.. These are some of the
tortures applied to the prisoners.
Of the worst physical tortures one may
mention is "rape". Several girls and young women are reported to have
been raped by groups of jailors or objects like coke bottles. One of the most
disastrous samples of such a dehumanizing torture is that of Taraneh Mousavi.
They not only raped her in group, but burned her half-dead body to remove any
possible evidence of their crime and buried it afterward. Moreover, it is
sometimes reported that men prisoners are threatened to observe their wives and
daughters being raped before their eyes if they refuse to confess. Hearing
this could be regarded as the worst mental and spiritual torture for a man.
Most political prisoners sentenced to long imprisonments or capital punishment
in Iran's prisons have finally obliged to confess by hearing just this single
sentence and then said goodbye to their lives. One of these victims was the
Kurdish political prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi who was severely wounded on
his detention day and spent 200 days in
solitary confinement suffering the most horrible physical torture and is now about to face the death penalty.
