New: Prison guards attack and abuse prisoners in Gohardasht Prison

In the past several weeks Iranian regime has concentrated on breaking resistance in prisons commuted by arrested protesters and political prisoners, and their hunger strike protesting torture and inhuman treatment by attacking, beating, transferring prisoners to dangerous wards, poisoning drinking water or even arranging deathly attack on prisoners by paid prisoners.

Such reactions portray the real status quo of the unstable and highly immune regime in Tehran, in regards to International pressure and also the past protests in the country. It also indicates the retrogressive progress of the implosion, envisioned earlier on by opposition figures of this regime due to the above factors
What is important for us, as international observers and analysis is to verify that the wave of protests which built up to the protests heading through since last year June till only recently , has NOT died away but has changed form in tactic

On Sunday, April 18, at about 8 am, prison guards in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj violently attacked defenseless prisoners in this prison under the pretext of searching prisoners and threw them in the prison yard. These forces then started breaking and confiscating the prisoner's personal items in their cells. This attack continued until about 11 am.
In the end of the attack, Hassan Akharian, the head of cellblock 1 in this prison gathered all the prisoners in the yard again and started crying out insults using profane language against them.
According to other reports, the pollution of prison water and the constant lack of water still continue in prison. Another number of prisoners were taken to the infirmary after being poisoned including Morteza Sadeqian from cellblock 1