Azimeh Nasseri and Nahid Kamangar tortured to make forced confessions

Azimeh Nasseri and Nahid Kamangar tortured to make forced confessions

Published by on September 1, 2021

International Liberty Association:Azimeh Nasseri and Nahid Kamangar are two Kurdish women prisoners who have been tortured and threatened in order to force them to make false confessions. Bothwomen were interrogated, tortured, and threatened in the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention centers. Kurdish civil activist Azimeh Nasseri was transferred ILA: from the detention center of the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization in Urmia to the quarantine of Urmia Central Prison on August 26, after a month in temporary detention. Azimeh Nasseri has been charged with acting against national security. The IRGC threatened and tortured the Kurdish civil activist to force her into making false confessions against herself. Mrs. Nasseri was arrested on January 9, 2021, during the wave of arrests of Kurdish citizens. Security forces entered her residence in the guise of repairers wanting to fix the gas outage.  After 25 days of interrogation, they transferred her to the women’s ward of Urmia Central Prison on February 3, 2021.


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