Iran protests: Family finds signs of torture on man's exhumed body

The assemblage of a young protester who died successful custody successful Iran showed shocking signs of torture aft it was exhumed, his household says, successful the archetypal specified lawsuit since the anti-government unrest began.

Hamed Salahshoor, a 23-year-old taxi driver, was arrested adjacent Izeh connected 26 November, his cousins told BBC Persian.

Four days later, they said, information forces told his begetter helium was dormant and made him state helium had a bosom attack.

But his assemblage showed the signs of terrible caput injuries and surgery, they added.

"His look was smashed. His nose, jaw and chins were broken. His torso from his cervix to his navel, and implicit his kidneys, was stitched up."

Iranian authorities person not commented connected the allegations.

Hamed Salahshoor's cousins said helium had taken portion successful the protests that began successful September pursuing the decease successful custody of Mahsa Amini, a pistillate who was detained by morality constabulary for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly".

However, they said, his household had not been told wherefore helium was detained.

"A fewer hours earlier his arrest, Hamed received the bully quality that helium had got a occupation astatine the ministry of oil," a root adjacent to the household told BBC Persian.

He past called his parent and told her that helium had "finally recovered a bully job", the root added.

Salahshoor aboriginal picked up passengers successful his taxi successful the confederate metropolis of Isfahan and began the 185km (115-mile) travel to Izeh.

He ne'er made it location due to the fact that his taxi was stopped astatine a checkpoint adjacent Izeh and helium was taken into custody.

Salahshoor's cousins said his begetter was informed connected 30 November that helium had died, and that helium was forced to motion a papers saying that helium had suffered a bosom attack. He besides had to committedness not to clasp a nationalist funeral.

"Security forces threatened Hamed's begetter that they would termination his 2 different sons," the household root alleged.

Security unit buried Salahshoor's assemblage astatine night-time successful a colony 30km (18 miles) from Izeh, with lone his parents allowed to beryllium present, according to the cousins.

The adjacent day, his household exhumed the assemblage truthful that they could hide him successful Izeh.

In summation to uncovering the grounds that helium had been tortured and undergone a surgical procedure, they recovered signs that helium not been fixed a due Muslim burial, which requires the bare assemblage of the deceased to beryllium washed and shrouded successful cloth.

"They buried Hamed with his apparel and shoes on. His assemblage was not straight. And they assertion they are Muslims!" his cousins said, referring to Iran's Shia Muslim clerical establishment.

So far, astatine slightest 502 protesters person been killed and 18,450 others person been arrested during the existent unrest, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA).

Many of those detained person reportedly been subjected to enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention, torture and different ill-treatment.

Yalda Aghafazli, 19, alleged earlier her decease that she was severely beaten successful constabulary custody.

"I'd ne'er been beaten this overmuch successful the 19 years of my life, but to the past infinitesimal I did not explicit remorse and I did not cry," she said successful an audio connection that she sent to her a person pursuing her release.

Aghafazli was arrested connected 26 October successful Tehran for allegedly penning anti-establishment slogans connected a partition and held for 13 days.

Five days aft her merchandise from situation she was recovered dormant successful her bed.

The judiciary said she had died of a cause overdose. But a root adjacent to her household disputed the claim, saying that they had been told that the effect of a toxicology trial would instrumentality 3 months to arrive.

"The constabulary officers who searched her country said thing was recovered and the post-mortem study gave the origin of decease arsenic 'unknown'," the root told BBC Persian.

A root adjacent to his household told BBC Persian that helium was "given pills successful situation and was beaten", portion his parent was filmed saying astatine his grave: "You were not suicidal, what did they bash to you successful prison?"

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, 1 of the protesters sentenced to decease aft what quality rights groups person denounced arsenic sham trials, has besides been tortured successful prison, according to his lawyer.

Hosseini was recovered blameworthy of the complaint of "corruption connected Earth" earlier this period successful a lawsuit related to the sidesplitting of a subordinate of the paramilitary Basij Resistance Force successful the metropolis of Karaj, adjacent Tehran, connected 3 November.

Hosseini has alleged that helium was tortured into confessing by information forces earlier his trial. Mr Ardakani was besides denied entree to his client.

One of the 4 different men sentenced to decease successful the aforesaid case, 53-year-old aesculapian doc Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou, is besides alleged to person been subjected to torture and ill-treatment successful bid to extract a "confession".

X-ray images seen by BBC Persian showed that Dr Ghare-Hasanlou's ribs were breached successful custody, piercing his lung.