{"id":5465,"date":"2016-09-14T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2016-09-14T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:36:17","slug":"iranian-political-prisoner-exposes-the-medieval-tortures-in-khameneis-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5465\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian political prisoner exposes the medieval tortures in Khamenei\u2019s prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"083103\"<\/a>NCRI –\u00a0<\/strong>A heart-breaking letter from an Iranian political prisoner exposes the medieval tortures in Khamenei\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n

Afsaneh Bayazidi, a Kurdish political prisoner, and a student from Bukan, was sentenced to four years in prison and exile in Kerman prison by Mahabad\u2019s revolutionary court.<\/p>\n

Her crime? Creating propaganda against the system and insulting the Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n

Bayazidi\u2019s letter states that because she comes from the deprived Kurdistan region, she is used to injustice and oppression from the regime but she will not stay silent.<\/p>\n

She wrote: \u201cDuring the 90 days that I was in detention, they have tortured me with every possible method and every means. In the first few days of detention, the torture was so much that I could not even walk. My feet and my back were bruised and turned black. I was beaten so much that my mouth and my nose were bleeding. They did not have an iota of mercy on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bayazidi said that when she pleaded for mercy or called out to God, she was told that there was no god in the Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cAt least twice they hung me by feet and by hands for several hours. In all the time that I was detained and interrogated, I was either tortured or blindfold and my eyes are now damaged and I feel that I have low eyesight and dimness. For 4 years I have been having breath shortness, and they did not give me my (oxygen) capsule to torment me more and extract confessions.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said that not even animals are treated in the way that the Regime treat her.<\/p>\n

She wrote: \u201cI was forced to make false confessions so that they could make cases against me and succeed in their inhumane tactics. I don\u2019t have anything to lose. I was tortured and threatened with rape and imprisonment in exile and they did the worst tortures on me. I have no fear now and I am not afraid anymore so it is my right to explain the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is currently denied phone calls and meetings; she snuck this letter out via a friend in order to expose the Regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NCRI –\u00a0A heart-breaking letter from an Iranian political prisoner exposes the medieval tortures in Khamenei\u2019s prisons. Afsaneh Bayazidi, a Kurdish political prisoner, and a student […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-rights","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}