Mother accuses Iran of torturing students

France24:A mother of one of the three Iranian students still held in jail after an incident in May on Monday publicly accused the authorities of torturing the young men to obtain confessions.
Azam Tajik, mother of Ehsan Mansouri, a student detained for the past four months on suspicion of publishing material offensive to Islam in university newspapers, said her son had been held in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin prison.

"Our children were forced to confess in prison under torture," she told a news conference on freedom of speech held by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi. "When they left solitary confinement they rejected the statements they had given."

The Iranian judiciary has vehemently denied that any accused are tortured in its prisons although it has said the Tehran judiciary is preparing a report about the families' claims.
Mansouri was arrested in May with Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban over the appearance of "anti-Islamic" material and caricatures in reformist student newspapers at Tehran's prestigious Amir Kabir University.

"Our children denied and condemned it, but everyone from the university to security officials said they have committed an offence," Tajik said.

"Who has proven their guilt? In front of which lawyer? Under torture and in solitary confinement?" the distraught mother said.
"They beat up my son when they took him from home to jail, his nose was bleeding all along, they told us we were lying and that we should stop giving interviews," Tajik said.
The students said the material been planted in a plot to discredit them.
Amir Kabir has long been a hotbed of student radicalism and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was last year the target of heckling in a stormy address to the university.
Ebadi defended the jailed students, saying they were detained because they did not have freedom of expression.
"Had the students taken up arms against people? We have always faced this problem that they went to prison because they were not free to express themselves," the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner said.
"This principle is forgotten that the dissidents should be free to talk, the supporters of the government have always been free to sing praises to the rulers anyway," Ebadi said.

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Iran: Shocking Reports of Sexual Toruture of Student Activists

Archer, the Great: Last May, a group of students were arrested in Amir Kabir University (AKU), following the suspicious distribution of student newsletter which insulted the Supreme Leader. Soon, there were strong reports that the newsletter were counterfeited to create the pretext for arresting and oppressing students. For the background and the related cartoon see here.

Recently, shocking details of the torture the arrested students were surfaced, causing outrage in the Iranian blogosphere. The names of some of the arrested students are Ahmad Ghasaban (احمد قصابان), Majid Tavakkoli (مجید توکلی) and Ehsan Nansouri (احسان منصوری). Reportedly, the students underwent massive sexual torture. The Intelligence Ministry agents have reportedly raped the students using bottles, hot eggs, etc. Their screams have been reportedly heard in other rooms in the prison. Reportedly, a few students have committed suicide, as a result of excessive pressure, the traces of which are still visible on their bodies.

According to a letter published by their parents, the students have been tortured for up to 12 hours by a team of seven, at the middle of the nights. Reportedly, the torture team have been using physicians to keep the students alive while make them suffer as much as possible. The students have been also denied access to washroom and were beaten up when they lost their control.
Source of the picture: Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters

Same Report in Persian: http://cyrusnews.com/news/fa/?mi=4&ni=24162

Report of more tortures of political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj Tehran: (Brutal beatings and broken rib cages) http://cyrusnews.com/news/fa/?mi=4&ni=24162

Imprisoned Iranian Students Sexually Assaulted By Regime!

The news is sickening and not a whisper from the "progressive Left" who incessantly talk about Abu Ghraib and when Iranians do the same thing about the atrocities occurring in Iran, we’re called all kinds of names…Perhaps the left think as "brown people", the Iranian people are used to this kind of treatment. And to think that an unscrupulous and unelected entity is auctioning their lives and liberty to AI and HRW as a bargaining chip to gain political leverage is beyond reprehensible.

Previously:

Pro-Ahmadinejad Thugs Stab & Beat Student Protesters!

Regime Beats Students With Chains- Arrests Student Leaders Crackdown & Arrests At Tehran's Amir Kabir University

Crackdown Continues... Student Arrests at Amir-Kabir University

After Clubbings & Arrests... Students Hold Protest at Amir Kabir

Iranian Students At Amir Kabir University Protest Ahmadinejad

Iranian Students Protest Regime! Chant "Down With Dictators!"

(Video) Iranian Regime Beats Student Protesters on Anniversary of 1999 Student Movement

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Appeal for Iranian students

This is an appeal by bloggers against the detention of 9 Iranian students from the Amir Kabir Polytechnic University in Tehran who are been kept and repeatedly tortured at the notorious Evin prison:
Dr. Keyvan Ansari - Alumni Association of Iran, since September 18 (2006)

Ahmad Ghassaban - Editor of Sahar, since May 3

Maghdad Khalilpur - Editor of Atiye, since May 7

Majid Tavakolli - Member of ISA, since May 9

Puyan Mahmudian - Editor of Rivar, since May 9

Majid Sheikhpur - Editor of Sar-e Khat, since May 9

Ehsan Mansouri - ISA Secretary of Political Affairs, since May 22

Ali Saberi - ISA committee member, since June 6

Abbas Hakimzadeh - ISA committee member, since June 6
Their crime: Protesting, writing articles, being part of a politically active body, expressing their concerns for the disgraceful human rights condition and the governments plan for a second cultural revolution in order to completely silent all criticisms against it’s ever growing oppression.
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