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A 70-year-old grandmother has reportedly had her kneecaps broken by Iranian prison officials in Tehran’s notorious Evin jail.
Human rights campaigner Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was said to have been under interrogation by officials when she was inflicted with the barbaric punishment.
She had been serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin jail for participating in anti-government protests.
The news of the attack emerged from independent Iranian media which said the activist’s knees had been broken by an interrogator during questioning.
Evin jail has a brutal reputation for its inhumane living conditions and merciless treatment of its detainees, with prisoners frequently subject to beatings and torture.
Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was said to have been under interrogation by officials when she was inflicted with the barbaric punishment.
Frud Sabet, son of Shahriari, said he was yet to hear of his mother’s condition since her initial trial.
He told RFERL Radio Farda: ‘The family is very worried about her health. We don’t know where she is, and we don’t know if she’s alive.’
Shahriari, a poet, was seized last summer as part of the Iranian regime’s repression of the Baha’i community that saw several community leaders detained.
The Bahaʼi faith is a religion that counts up to eight million members in the world….
A 70-year-old grandmother has reportedly had her kneecaps broken by Iranian prison officials in Tehran’s notorious Evin jail.
Human rights campaigner Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was said to have been under interrogation by officials when she was inflicted with the barbaric punishment.
She had been serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin jail for participating in anti-government protests.
The news of the attack emerged from independent Iranian media which said the activist’s knees had been broken by an interrogator during questioning.
Evin jail has a brutal reputation for its inhumane living conditions and merciless treatment of its detainees, with prisoners frequently subject to beatings and torture.
Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was said to have been under interrogation by officials when she was inflicted with the barbaric punishment.
Frud Sabet, son of Shahriari, said he was yet to hear of his mother’s condition since her initial trial.
He told RFERL Radio Farda: ‘The family is very worried about her health. We don’t know where she is, and we don’t know if she’s alive.’
Shahriari, a poet, was seized last summer as part of the Iranian regime’s repression of the Baha’i community that saw several community leaders detained.
The Bahaʼi faith is a religion that counts up to eight million members in the world….
