According to the survivors’ testimony, state agents—acting under the command of senior prison and intelligence officials—carried out a coordinated and violent raid on a political ward in Ghezel Hesar. Two individuals, Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, were subsequently executed, in what appears to have been a retaliatory act of killing. BackgroundBefore this day, there were 20 political prisoners in Ward 20/3, Unit 4. Seeing this, Mehdi Hassani came forward from the back of the bus and shouted repeatedly: “I am Mehdi Hassani.” A masked agent came and pulled him off too. Surviving Political Prisoners of the ‘Bloody Saturday of Ghezel Hesar’Unit 4, Ghezel Hesar PrisonMonday, August 11, 2025