Prisoners held in solitary cells are severely beaten

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

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On Monday morning, Oct. 24th while the political prisoners of Rejaiishahr prison, visited with their families and loved ones, Khaled Hardani whose wife and children were among the visitors were witness to him being brutally beaten by the regime's agents. Bina Darab-Zand, another political prisoner who came to Hardani's aid was removed from the visitors' area as well and taken to solitary. All this happened while these two prisoners' furloughs from prison had finally come through.

The families of these prisoners reported the incident, calling it "staged" and a ruse to prevent the two prisoners from taking their deserved furloughs by charging them with insubordination and mischief-making.