Iran has committed widespread torture to extract confessions of those rounded up in last year’s anti-government protests and subjected hundreds to grossly unfair trials, Amnesty International said in a new report published Wednesday.
Electric shocks, mock executions, waterboarding and ripping out fingers and toes were among the torture methods documented by the London-based human rights group, which interviewed dozens of Iranian protesters, witnesses, and others jailed or disappeared. Combined with video footage, official statements and court documents, the evidence reveals “a catalog of shocking human rights violations” carried out by Iranian police, prison guards and security forces, Amnesty International's report said.
