Brave Iranian prisoner, 25, risks her life to reveal how women are tortured, humiliated & brutalised at notorious jail
EXCLUSIVE from SUN
Student Farideh was arrested for spraying graffiti and spent a year in one of Iran’s worst prisons
- Published: 8:23, 29 Oct 2023
A BRAVE Iranian political prisoner has risked her life to share with the world the squalid and often torturous conditions inside the regime’s notorious women’s prison.
University student Farideh, 25, was imprisoned for more than a year at Qarchak – an infamous prison originally built to house livestock in Varamin, around 40 miles south of Tehran.
She told The Sun how she was arrested after painting some graffiti against the country’s current regime.
Farideh – a member of the Iranian resistance group MEK – said she was denied a fair trial, tortured, beaten, interrogated and kept in solitary confinement before being housed in a filthy public cell at Qarchak.
Human rights groups and Iranian dissidents have previously told The Sun that the prison is riddled with disease, has poor sanitation, and is rife with torture, murder and rape.
Farideh said prisoners were crammed in side by side with no way to lie down or sleep, and there was overflowing sewage and air so poor it was hard to breathe. Read more