Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prison guards torture civilian to death in Tehran

Prison guards at the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary killed prisoner Saman Darvishi under torture on 8 May, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The 31-year-old prisoner, from Harsin in Kermanshah province, was arrested about a year ago for robbery. The prisoner was also beaten several times last year on the pretext that he had injured a law enforcement officer while in custody, KHRN has...

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