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Iran Regime Hosts Fake Visit to Its Prison

However, this was little more than a show visit, to placate the international community who have been enquiring into the welfare of the political prisoners after at least 12 protesters had been tortured to death over the past few weeks.

Why else would it take three weeks to organise this visit?

The Regime took this time to prepare, which effectively means to hide evidence of their crimes, and they banned the MPs from talking freely about what they saw.

Thankfully, some of the politicians still revealed evidence which shows that the Regime has been lying to the international community and abusing prisoners.

Alireza Rahimi, member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the regime, explained that Asghar Jahangir, the director of the Prisons Organization, had said that the total number of protesters arrested was 4972 (much higher than the Regime claimed) and that 438 people were still in prison, while an additional 55 were detained in the Ministry of Intelligence.

The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement on February 4, which read: “There is no need to explain that the actual figure of the arrested and the detainees are much higher; on the one hand, the head of the Prisons Organization is trying to portray the number of arrests much less than reality; on the other hand, many prisons, detention centres, secret and safe houses belonging to the Ministry of Intelligence, the Revolutionary Guards Corps the IRGC’s intelligence and other repressive forces are not under the control of the Prisons Organization, and Jahangir does not mention them.”

The Regime’s overall goal for this visit was to cover up the murders of protesters, like Sina Ghanbari, and to get their parliamentarians to promote the lie that protesters were commenting suicide.

Rahimi even revealed that the prisoners were not allowed to speak to the politicians alone, which would be intimidating for the detainees and cause them not to reveal information about the true nature of the Regime’s prison system.

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the NCRI, has previously called on the international community, including the United Nations, the European Union and the Council of Europe, to call for the unconditional release of political prisoners and peaceful protesters and set up an international investigation into the torture and deaths in custody.
The mullahs cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.

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