A former detainee has detailed the brutal conditions endured during his imprisonment in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, where Amnesty International reports systemic abuse, including excessive force and unlawful treatment. Accounts describe a facility marked by harsh crackdowns and severe physical mistreatment of inmates, raising serious concerns about human rights violations. The testimony sheds light on the extreme measures faced by prisoners within one of the country’s most feared detention centers.
Hekmati spent over a year of his sentence imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison, a harsh facility known for excessive crackdowns, harsh beatings and other harrowing uses of unlawful force against prisoners, according to Amnesty International.
