The renowned Evin jail in Iran has been the site of torture and interrogations, according to Sepideh Qolian, one of Iran’s most well-known women activists. According to the BBC, Qolian wrote a letter from within the prison. She was given a five-year prison term in 2018 for what the judges deemed to be ‘activities against national security.’ She is now incarcerated. She had backed a strike at the time.
Qolian, a prisoner studying law, has detailed how people who have been detained or imprisoned are questioned in a waiting room.
She writes in her letter, ‘The exam room is crowded with young boys and girls and the yells of torturers can be heard.’
On Iran’s state-run television, dozens of confessions have been aired till now. There are allegations that these confessions are forced and often obtained under torture.
In her letter, Qolian has described a scene she witnessed on December 28, 2022.
‘It’s freezing cold and snowing, near the exit door of the building, a young boy blindfolded and wearing nothing but a thin grey T-shirt is sat in front of an interrogator’
He’s shaking and pleading: ‘I swear to God I didn’t beat anyone.’ They want him to confess. As I am passing I shout: ‘DO NOT confess,’ and ‘Death to you tyrants.”
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