Female political prisoner kept in solitary for more than 3 months

Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran

According to reports, a woman who was arrested on Ashura has been kept in a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for more than 3 months and has been denied visitation rights.
Zahra Bahrami, 45, was arrested in the Ashura protests (December 27, 2009) after a violent attack by security forces and was transferred to cellblock 209 in Evin Prison. She has been kept in solitary since her arrest and has been interrogated numerously in this time. She is sexually harassed and physically and psychologically tortured in these hours long interrogations.
Intelligence interrogators try to forces this prisoner to make false confessions and give televised interviews. Bahrami has been subjected to the worst physical and psychological torture because she was unknown in prison. According to reports, a large number of unknown men and women are currently under severe torture in cellblocks 209, 240 and 2A in Evin Prison.
Bahrami has been banned from receiving visits by her family and has only made controlled phone calls with the presence of intelligence interrogators. These phone calls were between 2 to 3 minutes and they were aimed at preventing her family from taking any actions for her release and better conditions. Intelligence interrogators have threatened her family that if they publish news on her arrest and condition in prison, her situation in prison will worsen. Her family says that Bahrami lived in Holland and was only in Iran for a family visit.