More accusations of human rights abuses have emerged by those who were detained during the recent unrest in Iran.
Political prisoners have alleged several abuses which has lead Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, to order the closure of Kahrizak Detention Centre located, South of Tehran after it failed to "preserve the rights of detainees".
Former inmates at the Kahrizak Detention Centre claim that they were forced to strip and were then whipped with electrical cables. One detainee reportedly went blind and died, after suffering extensive trauma to the head whilst held in the prison. Many inmates say that they were crammed into small cells with no access to sanitation. Reports say that Tehran’s Police Chief, Ibrahim Reza Radan, had personally tortured prisoners using a plastic hose.
In other prisons, reports say a female detainee was forced to confess after being beaten, tortured and touched inappropiatley by male interrogators. Another prisoner claimed that he had been forced to lick the commode of a toilet and had been beaten repeatedly.
Sources say that prison guards who refuse to beat and torture the political prisoners are reprimanded.
Multiple websites claim that the number of people killed in detention has reached 78 and one site has published a list of 171 dead, who it says were killed during the protests. Most sources have confirmed around 20 deaths with some reporting 30 whilst opposition supporters have alleged the number is nearer 100.
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