“Like the Dead in Their Coffins”Torture, Detention, and the Crushing of Dissent in Iran
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Summary
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
Background
Methodology
Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
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
The Students
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
The Independent Press and the Prisoners
The Article 90 Commission
A Bleak Future
Acknowledgments
June 2004 Vol. 16, No. 2(E)
