Ailing prisoner in Gohardasht Prison beaten savagely

Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran

April 26, prisoners in cellblock 6 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj were pulled out of their cells and taken to the prison yard. One of the prisoners by the name of Ali-Akbar Lamaei, 30, from cell 2, hall 16 uses sedatives because he is suffering from a mental illness.
When the prisoners were being taken to the yard, he was moving at the back of the line because of his condition.
Prison guards insulted him and then took him to section 8, where they beat him with clubs and iron pipes. He became injured and some of his body parts were fractured as result after which he went into a coma. Prison guards first left him in that condition for a long time before he was taken to the prison infirmary. The infirmary announced that he was in critical condition. The painful sounds of his crying and sobbing which were heard in the prison yard enraged his cellmates.
The prison guards who were torturing Ali-Akbar Lamaei were Qasem Mohammadi aka Uncle Qasem, Sheikhi, Ahmadi and Eqbani