Posted on 09/23/2020 11:07:40 PM PDT by hassan.mahmoud
Interview By: Peter Tase
Vakilabad Prison is located in the city of Mashhad in eastern Iran.
This prison has reportedly been the site of hundreds of secret executions carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Not only have the executions taken place secretly, but neither the prisoners nor their families were informed prior to their execution.
Mr. Ahmed Shaheed, the former UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, has documented more than 300 secret executions in Vakilabad during the past years. Vakilabad Prison is massively overcrowded, which puts the prisoners under severe pressure, with many of them having to sleep on the floor due to poor conditions.
The quality of prison food is abysmal and medical services are denied to political prisoners.
Each prisoner is only allowed to see a doctor every three months, and the doctor usually prescribes only three types of medicine, regardless of the individual’s problem.
The Coronavirus is now a disaster in this crowded location. The prisoners are denied hospital treatment; they receive no medication after exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.
The following is a summary of my interview with Mahmoud: the interview was conducted with the contribution of ER correspondents in Iran.
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