Pressures Grow on Prisoners of Mahabad Prison

HRANA News Agency – The misbehavior of Mahabab prison authorities has increased in the past month. Frequent inspections, humiliation and obscenity and beating the prisoners are the issues which have been repeatedly happened many times in this prison during the past month.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the authorities of Mahabab prison inspect the rooms and suites of prisoners frequently because of unknown reasons and in most cases these inspections end to the humiliation and beating the prisoners. An informed source said to HRANA: “A number of prisoners were transferred out of their ward and tied and beaten by sprinkling water and obscenities for several times so far.”

A prisoner who was released recently introduced some of those who have beaten the prisoners, major collective representative of protection unit, Safari head of prison security, Ghanipour and Jahedi the guard officers, but HRANA cannot confirm it independently.

About seven hundred prisoners are kept in Mahabad prison whereas according to sources of HRANA, the capacity of the prison is not more than four hundred and this has led to overcrowding in prison and the growing number of prisoners who sleep on the floor.

Also about forty political prisoners in Mahabad prison are kept with other defendants against the principle of separation of offenses and almost fifty prisoners on death row are held in Mahabad prison, who mostly are convicted on drug related charges.