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Thursday, 30 Jul2009
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July 30, 2009
Both Were Tortured to Death
While concerns over the conditions of prisoners, including torture, and the spread of infectious
disease in prison, are rising, the body of another person killed in the post-June 12 election
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Ramin Ghahremani, born in 1979, died in a hospital just two days after being released from
prison As reported by family members, he had been hanged in prison from his feet for a long time. According to news
reports, during the demonstrations after the June 12 elections, agents used the closed circuit television of a bath to identiFy
Ramin Ghahremani and went to his house. Not finding him there, they told his mother that Ramin needed to come to a
specified location immediately.
Convinced that her son had not done anything wrong other than participate in a peaceftil march, Ramin's mother
accompanied him to the location and delivers her son to the officials. Fifteen days after voluntarily went to the authorities to
show his innocence, Ramin was released from prison but his body showed the deep scars of torture.
He told his mother that he had been kept hanging from the ceiling up side down for days. A few days after his release,
Ramin had to be hospitalized because of the blood clots in his chest A few days after that, Ramin died in the hospital.
Ramin's flimily members buried their son in the presence of many security agents, while they were categorically told not to
communicate about their son to anyone.
Another ‘Martyr'
The dead body of Amir Javadiffir was handed over to his thmily on July 26th, 2009, and he was buried at Tehran's
Behesht Zahra cemetery on Monday. Amir had been arrested during the protests that took place on July 9, 2009. On July
25th, the police contacted Amir's tither and told him to pick up the body of his son from the coroners office in Kahrizak
prison The coroner had determined the cause of death to be respiratory yeast caused by bleeding inthe lungs.
Amir was an And university student studying management in Qazvin and according to Sarmaye newspaper security agents
had asked his family to announce that Amir had died because of a lung illness that he had prior to his detention Agents also
had forced the family members to sign papers pledging that they would hold a memorial for their son only in the presence of
other family members and that there would be no chanting at the ceremony.
According to family members, Amir' s body had been kept in the morgue for 10 days before it was handed over to them
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