Yousef Soleimani, Younes’s brother, stated that “in a prison visit with my brother on Wednesday August 25th, I found out that he was tortured by electrical shocks and psychotropic injections.”
According to him, his brother has suffered heart problems due to the tortures and has been held in the Tabriz IRGC-run hospital for 3 days.
The recent news comes at the same time that a number of Tabriz activist detainees have told their families during their prison visits that they have heard Ayat Mehr Ali Biglou’s screams while he was being tortured.
According to Savalan Sasi, Ayat Mehr Ali Biglou has not contacted his family for a month. In order to confirm the validity of the recent reports, his family has referred to the Interrogation section of the 4th branch of the Prosecution’s Office and the Tabriz Revolutionary Court and have requested to meet Biglou in person. Judge Hashemzadeh who presides over the case has denied their request since Biglou’s case is a security case.
Younes Soleimani was detained on June 16,, 2010 in Ardabil and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglou was arrested on May 9th in the city of Soufian. The judicial authorities have refused to declare the reason for their arrest.
Their lawyers Naghi Mahmoudi and Abbas Jamali have not been able to look at the case files.