Iranian Political Prisoners Association
Students tortured in 209
According top reports released by the Students Committee of Human Rights
Reporters, and also testimony of recently released victims, students are being
violently tortured in the notorious 209 section of Evin prison.
According to these testimonies, methods used to pressure students to go through
TV staged confessions against their friends, are not only physical ones but
include psychological ones. After long and continuous sessions of interrogation
and torture they are left with bruised personalities and zero self respect and
self confidence. At intervals they are under physical attacks being punched,
kicked and whipped by heavy weighed cables.
Prior to this, Behrouz Karimi Zadeh, former Tehran University student was
reported by his family to have had a deep cut from his wrist to his elbow.
During the past weeks, some students have paid incredible sums to be released
temporarily; the price has ranged between 53000 to 107 thousand dollars.
According to some, the Intelligence ministry has used fake TV confessions to
link the students' movement to outside opposition forces.
After 21 days of illegal detention of students, there is yet no news concerning
their condition.Some of the other students have had their families visiting them
on 5 February for the first time in Evin prison. Saiid Habibi is one of the
students who is barred from any visits and is under constant torture.
Sixty students have been arrested by the Intelligence Ministry in the past 3
months and forty are still pending results in prison. They were detained while
trying to commemorate the Students day in Iran.