
Hojjatollah Souri
AKA: Hojjatollah Soori
- Head of Evin Prison (Oct 2010 - 2012)
- Human Rights Violation: Torture and ill-treatment of prisoners read more
- Institution
- Prisons Organisation
- Location
- Evin Prsion, Tehran
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Description
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Hojjatullah Souri, as the director of Evin Prison, has been involved in the ill-treatment, beatings, physical and psychological torture and sexual abuse of prisoners, including journalist Saeed Pourheidar. According to the testimony of victims, physical torture such as beatings during interrogation, insomnia and throwing in cold water barrels or keeping prisoner naked in cold weather for hours and psychological torture such as presenting false news and information, threats of rape, false executions, forcing prisoner to admit immoral charges, threatening to detain family members or falsely reporting the detention of family members, as well as deprivation of medical care are common methods used to put pressure on inmates at Evin Prison.
- Sources
Description of Saeed Pourheidar, Journalist, of Torture in Evin Prison, Iran Human Rights Campaign, June 2011
Collective deprivation of prisoners in ward 350 of Evin Prison from visiting, Kaleme website, 9 November, 2010
- Human Rights Violation: Torture and ill-treatment of prisoners read more
- Member of Parliament, Delphan (2012 - 2016)
- Deputy of Protection and Security of Prisons Organisation (Unknown)
- Head of the Central Guard of the Prisons Organisation (Unknown)
- Head of Tehran’s Security Prisons, Ghezel Hesar, Rajai Shahr (Unknown)
- Instructor of educational centres of the prisons organisation (Unknown)