Sepideh Qolyan's shocking account of the torture of an Arab-Iranian woman in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz
Sepideh Gholian, a civil activist who is currently temporarily released on bail, wrote in a series of tweets about the torture of an Iranian Arab woman in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz.
This civil activist mentioned on Twitter an Iranian Arab female prisoner named Zahra Hosseini, who, according to her, was arrested by Ahvaz intelligence agents in November 2018 and held in the intelligence detention center cells for 5 months, where she was tortured by her interrogators to extract a forced confession.
Sepideh Qolyan, who referred to Zahra Hosseini as "my Arab sister," says she first saw her with bruised hands and feet when they were both being transferred to Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz for fingerprinting.
According to this civil activist, although he was blindfolded throughout his detention, the voices he heard during interrogation were "more vivid and vivid" than a thousand images, and no harassment was greater than that.
She says that on the first day of her interrogation, she heard the voices of intelligence interrogators interrogating Zahra Hosseini from the cell next door. According to Ms. Qolyan, during the interrogation, which lasted until morning, the interrogators asked the female prisoner to confess that she was a member of the ISIS group, even though she had been introducing herself as a "Sunni" throughout.
Referring to Ms. Hosseini's torture and beating by interrogators and emphasizing that they were held together in Sepidar Prison for months afterward, Sepideh Gholian says that Zahra Hosseini is one of hundreds of Iranian Arab women who have been detained, tortured, and oppressed for two reasons: "being a woman" and "being Arab."
Previously, representatives of 33 countries, including the United States, criticized the violation of the rights of women, ethnic and religious minorities, and the continued execution of children in Iran at a periodic meeting to review the human rights situation in Iran, and called on the Iranian government to join the Convention against Torture and ensure that no one is subjected to torture.
The US State Department has also repeatedly and on various occasions condemned the violent confrontations and widespread repression of protesters, as well as the repeated and persistent violations of the rights of Iranian citizens by the ruling regime in that country.
Source: Voice of America
