Young Iranian Protesters Are Tortured, Risk Execution, Amnesty International Says

By Natasha Phillips Young protesters detained in Iran were tortured in prison, and are at imminent risk of execution, according to a Jan. 27 report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International. Arshia Takdastan, 18, Mehdi Mohammadifard, 19, and Javad Rouhi, 31, were “forcibly disappeared, and otherwise ill treated” to extract confessions, the report said. Ill treatment included … Continue reading Young Iranian Protesters Are Tortured, Risk Execution, Amnesty International Says