"Like the Dead in Their Coffins"

Torture, Detention, and the Crushing of Dissent in Iran

I. Summary

II. Recommendations

To the Office of the Leader

On Unlawful Arrest and Detention

On Torture and Ill-Treatment

On Administration of Justice

To the Guardian Council

To the European Union

To the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Cruel and Inhuman Punishment

III. Background

Methodology

VI. Arbitrary Arrest and Detention

V. Detention Centers and Ill-Treatment

Evin Prison

Parallel Forces and Illegal Detention Centers

Prison 59

Edareh Amaken

"White Torture": The Use of Solitary Confinement

Interrogations

VI. The Students

VII. Encounters with the Judiciary

Denial of right to counsel and right to prepare a defense

Non-Public Trials

Denial of the Right to Appeal

Testimonies

Massoud Behnoud

Mohsen M.

Ebrahim Nabavi

Ali K.

Rewarding Injustice

IIX. The Independent Press and the Prisoners

The Article 90 Commission

IX. A Bleak Future

Acknowledgments