According to reports from inside Iran the criminal officials of the Gohardasht prison in Karaj (west of Tehran), attacked the political prisoners being on hunger strike and brutally beat them up.

This criminal act took place on Wednesday Oct. 10, a few hours after they started their hunger strike along with other political prisoners in other prisons in Iran by the prison guards. The order of the attack was issued by Hassan Zare’ Dehnavi also called Judge Haddad who is in charge of political prisoners’ files, and it was carried out under supervision of prison manger, his deputies and head of the ward called Mohammad Mughnian; the attack itself was led by Nasser Amanian.