Iran: Torture crippled a prisoner in Kashan

Home Human Rights Iran: Torture crippled a prisoner in Kashan Iran: Torture crippled a prisoner in Kashan NCRI – The mullahs' inhuman regime handcuffed and hanged a prisoner named Mohammadreza Rafiyani, by his arms, from the ceiling of his cell in the central city of Kashan on Thursday. The following morning when his jailers opened the cell, both of his arms were crippled as he was hanged all night long. Rafiyani was tortured because he protested earlier to insanitary prison conditions. Many prisoners have mysteriously died in the Iranian regime's prisons over the past three decades. Later investigations into some of these cases revealed that the prisoner had been severely tortured before his death. A famous case is that of the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi who was murdered in the summer of 2003 after being... [read full story]