According to reports from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, the prison guards at this prison attacked the cell of political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani and other prisoners and insulted and brutalized them.
On Saturday January 30, at about 11:30 pm the prison guards at this prison attacked Javid Tehrani's cell. They also scattered and broke his personal belongings. Prison guards sent their guard dogs inside the cell to terrorize the prisoners. These guards also attacked several other cells.
These forces beat Mehdi Zia Abadi, a prisoner who had objected the attacks. Abadi was injured in several parts of his body. Another prisoner, Salahaddin Qorbani, 60, who protested the attack with dogs was also attacked and clubbed.
Qorbani was later summoned to the Prison Protection Department by Faraji, the Intelligence Department deputy and threatened that his death sentence would soon be carried out. Faraji also threatened another prisoner, Qorban Ali Nasiri Parshimi, 60, who has a 70 percent handicap after being injured in the Iran-Iraq war and has been jailed for 4 years because of financial offenses, that he would be sent to solitary in the 'doghouse' for 20 days.
There are other reports that Dr. Ahmad Zeidabadi, the Secretary General of the Iran Postgraduates Organization (Danesh Amokhtegan), is in the quarantine section of Gohardasht Prison.
On Monday February 1, Kermani and Faraji, the head and deputy of the Intelligence Department at this prison, stormed ward 6 with several guards and threatened and harassed the prisoners. While leaving the ward, they took 25-year-ol prisoner Saied Afsharzadeh to the Intelligence Department and he was beaten with clubs, fists and kicks for a long period of time. When he was brought back to the cell, he was injured and bleeding in several parts of his body. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Feb. 1, 2010)
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