Torture in Evin Prison - a personal story

- by @iranproxy on #iranelection August 16

• friend who was in Evin prison yrs ago told me they used fake execution on him 7 times to break him
• they would take him out, tell him at night he would die in the morning and then prepare the execution
• the last few times they did fake execution he said just kill me, i cannot live like this
• for fake execution he said they do it like real execution, even show him other ppl who were executed
• he showed me the scar where guards cut him open for fun to see what was inside him
• he said what is done to women in Evin is too much to say
• he said some women would ask to be killed after first day
• my friend said they would do the same rapes to men they do now, bottles, other objects
• he said that they tortured him so much one time that he was beginning to die
• so the guards called his family and ask them to pay to save his life
• he show me scars and holes on his body and ask how can we negotiate with ppl who do this to ppl?
• he told me the guards would make fun of him as they tortured him and cut him
• the torturers said he could speak english, was educated, had a future and could go anywhere
• and said with all that education and knowledge look where he was now? being tortured by the uneducated
• that his education and knowledge was worthless, that this was his punishment for being educated
• they said he could go anywhere in world because he was educated and could speak english
• they said they were uneducated & could speak only farsi & couldn't go anywhere, no options in life
• and so they would stay until the end, they would kill anyone because they had no options in life
• that they would fight forever because their back was against the wall in life because of no options
• he said as they torture him they said they hated the educated people because they had hope in life
• he said they killed his cousins and brother in prison from torture and from execution
• my friend said they force prisoners to vote in prison, those who didn't vote were killed or tortured
• he said the worst was hearing women scream, they would beg to die
• then he tell me how he got out of prison, one day they had cut him open too much for fun
• he showed me the scar, it was biggest i have ever seen in my life
• even the scar looked like it was evil, that is how much it hurt me to see it
• he said he passed out that he does not know what they did when his body was open
• that doctor told him he had basically died and then his body released to doctor
• but they called the family to tell them to pay to save his life
• this doctor was a hero, knew him and helped him get out
• he could not say more, it was too much for him
• i can see in his eyes the pain when he talks about it, the shame he still carries for his whole life
• i can see in his eyes the pain when he talks about it, the shame he still carries for his whole life
• he said to me the torture that happens to political prisoners is much worse than what happened to him
• if you saw him, you would never know this happened. heroes are everywhere in our lives
• he told me the guards felt hopeless and jealous and were encouraged to blame ppl for their situation
• my friend escape from Iran after worst torture where they said he died, now he wants to go back
• he wants to go back to fight so other ppl do not suffer what he did, he said world cannot abandon these ppl