On Monday, December 21, pressures imposed by henchmen and intelligence elements of Ward 7 in the notorious Evin Prison in the capital city of Tehran on the political prisoners and their visiting families led to a protest by the political prisoner and their families.
In response to this protest, the security guards, along with other henchmen, battered the prisoners and prohibited further visits. The henchmen overtly told the political prisoners that they wish to treat them the way political prisoners were treated in the 1980s.
It should be noted here that during 1980s, more than 120,000 political prisoners in Iran were executed, many of them younger than 18. In the summer of 1988 alone, more than 30,000 political prisoners were hanged or set in front of the firing squads just for not repenting and for holding their legions to freedom. The 1988 massacre of political prisoners has well been documented and a book with the names, information and photograph of more than 20,000 of those killed has been published.