On Monday November 14 a number of Kurd religious and political prisoners who are detained in Hall 10, Cellblock 4 in Gohardasht Prison [Rajayi Shahr] were attacked and beaten by the prison gang instigated by prison officials.
Subsequently, the head of the Prison Intelligence Department, Faraji Nejad along with the head of Cellblock 4, Talivardi, Mirza Aqayi and a number of other prison guards created a ‘human tunnel’ and forced Kurd political and religious prisoners to go through while beating them. The prison guards stood on either side of the ‘tunnel’ and used electric batons to beat the prisoners in the face and body.
Three Kurd prisoners identified as Ayoub Karimi, Layeq Kordpour and Mohamamd-Amin Barqi passed out from the beatings while Mohammad Barqi’s nose broke from the baton strikes. The bodies of political prisoners Abdolhadi Hemat Zadeh, Abdolvahed Soleimani, Fakhroddin Azizi, Rahim Zehi, Eunice Qaderi and Osman Ahsani have become black and bruised from the violent beatings.
These prisoners were transferred to solitary cells in the notorious cellblock 1 while injured and bruised without receiving minimum medical treatment.
Currently, 42 Kurd political and religious prisoners are detained in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, Committee for Human Rights in Iran [RAHANA] – Nov. 15, 2000)