Human rights organizations express concern for the fate of Ahu Dariei, in the psychiatric asylum who was transferred because she stayed in her underwear in a public place in Tehran to protest against the compulsory headscarf.
Amnesty International said it has evidence that the Iranian regime is using electric shocks, torture, beatings and chemical agents on protesters and political prisoners who are transferred to state mental institutions after being labeled mentally unstable. He said the situation the young woman was facing was “disturbing”.
Video of the protest by the young woman, who has not been officially identified but whose name has gone viral, was widely circulated on social media last week. He was then arrested by the police. She was believed to be protesting after being physically assaulted by campus security guards at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University for not complying with the strict dress code imposed on all Iranian women.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) described the student’s transfer to an undisclosed psychiatric facility as “kidnapping,” saying the use of forcibly transporting anti-regime protesters to psychiatric facilities is increasingly being used to silence dissent.
“Iranian authorities routinely use compulsory psychiatric hospitalization as a tool to suppress dissent, labeling protesters as mentally unstable to undermine their credibility,” Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI’s executive director, told the Guardian.
“The transfer of people participating in peaceful protests to psychiatric hospitals is not only an act of arbitrary detention but also a form of kidnapping. This practice is a blatantly illegal move to discredit activists by labeling them mentally unstable.”
According to the relevant reports from Iran, there are many cases of arrests of even high-profile people arrested during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests who were also taken to psychiatric hospitals after their arrest.
Saman Yassin, a well-known Kurdish rapper, was taken by authorities to Tehran’s Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital after he was arrested at a protest in 2022. There, he was allegedly tortured and forced to confess. He spent two years in prison before being released on medical leave last month.
A source close to Yasin told the Guardian: “Shaman was tied to the psychiatric hospital bed in a cross-legged position for a long time. He was sedated in high doses and despite his unconscious state, the shackles on his hands and feet were not removed.”
In October 2023, Rogia Zakeri, a young Iranian woman who appeared on video shouting anti-regime slogans, was labeled mentally ill by state media and transferred to the women’s ward of Razi Psychiatric Hospital. People close to her family told the Guardian that she was injected with hypnotics, physically assaulted and had her hands and feet chained.
Azam Jangravi, a human rights activist, has claimed that Iranian authorities pressured her to sign a statement saying she had mental health problems after photos of her waving her hijab over her head were widely circulated in 2018. on a street in Tehran.
“When they interrogated me, they accused me of being a spy,” he said. “They wanted me to write a confession stating that I regretted my protest and that I did it because I was mentally ill. I didn’t sign it… We are constantly mocked during interrogations by citing the examples of former political prisoners who were sent to these mental hospitals, saying “If you don’t repent of your act of protest, you will face the same fate”. I’m afraid that the student is in horrible conditions right now and we must demand her release,” she said in related statements.
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