An Iranian student has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital after being released from prison.
According to Daneshjoo News, a website dedicated to student activism in Iran, Foad Sajoudi Farimani, a student from the University of Amirkabir has been taken to the Mehregan psychiatric hospital.
Farimani was arrested on 14 September 2010 and taken to ward 2A of Evin prison under the supervision of the Revolutionary Guards. During his time in detention, he was placed under severe pressure to confess to acts he had never committed.
After enduring 45 days of solitary confinement as well as intense physical and psychological torture, the young student was finally released on 19 December on a bail of more than $480,000. He was transferred to Mehregan mental hospital after being released, as a result of his treatment at the hands of interrogators.
Daneshjoo News also reports that following his imprisonment, Farimani has been barred from pursuing his academic career in the doctorate level, despite having been accepted as a PhD student at Amirkabir University of Technology.
He is still awaiting his trial date.
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