Torture and deliberate mistreatment behind prison wallsOther political prisoners are facing severe physical and psychological pressure. In Ahvaz’s Sheiban Prison, political prisoner Masoud Jamei has reportedly been subjected to harsh treatment after protesting prison conditions. Prisoners beaten for exposing abusesIn Lakan Prison in Rasht, prison guards reportedly severely beat Hamzeh Darvish, a Sunni prisoner, after he exposed conditions inside the prison. Capital punishment, arbitrary detention, torture, and prison abuses function as interconnected tools of political repression. The Iranian regime has repeatedly demonstrated that domestic mechanisms are incapable of providing meaningful protection for political prisoners.