Iran: Prisoner with Mental Disability
Died After Being Beaten by
Guards; IHR Calls for Independent
Investigations
ایران: زندانی با
ناتوانی ذهنی پس از ضرب و شتم توسط گارد زندان فوت کرد؛ خواستار تحقیقات مستقل
شد IHR
MARCH 30, 2019
Iran Human Rights (IHR); March 29, 2019: Prisoner Bahman Mirzaei who was
reportedly suffering from a mental disability, died on March 6 after being
beaten by Rajai Shahr prison guards.
Iran Human Rights (IHR) urges the international community to pay special
attention to the dreadful conditions of Iranian prisons and particularly to the
reports of suspicious deaths of the prisoners subjected to torture.
IHR director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said: "We particularly urge
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and Special
Rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, to question Iranian authorities
regarding the death of Bahman Mirzaei and others who lost their lives in
Iranian prisons during the past years."
According to IHR sources, Bahman Rezaei who was transferred from a
psychiatric hospital to Rajaei Shahr prison was beaten severely by prison
guards on March 25, 2019. Next morning, his dead body was found in the cell.
Prison authorities claim that Bahman committed suicide.
KAYHAN JAMME
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