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Iranwire – A Kurdish prisoner arrested for providing medicine to injured protesters during the 2022 demonstrations has revealed the torture he endured while in detention.
Razgar Beigzadeh Babamiri recounted his 130-day imprisonment in a letter obtained by IranWire.
He wrote, “During 130 days of continuous detention with torture, in addition to bruising across my entire body, my left ear became deaf due to blows to my head from interrogators and remained deaf for three months.
“Later the torn eardrum in my left ear gradually regained hearing, but until recovery it repeatedly developed severe infections.”
Babamiri was arrested by security forces in the western city of Bukan in April 2023 for providing aid to those injured during the 2022 nationwide protests.
He spent nearly four months in detention facilities in Bukan and Urmia, where he was pressured to make forced confessions.
An individual identifying himself as “Saeedi,” an intelligence officer from Bukan, contacted Babamiri and summoned him to a location near Bukan around 5 PM on the day of his arrest.
Upon arrival, Saeedi and another individual named Ghorbani, the case interrogator, transported him to the Bukan intelligence office.
From the time of his arrest until 10 PM, Babamiri was tortured and beaten by a six-member intelligence team. He was repeatedly threatened with death.
He was told that he was in a place where dozens of “rioters” had been killed under torture and that his body “would be dumped in Bukan Dam lake, sewage canals, or mass graves.”
The officers claimed tortures had legal immunity and that his death would carry no consequences.
During the first 72 hours of detention, Babamiri repeatedly lost consciousness from the torture before being transferred to the detention center of the West Azerbaijan Province Intelligence Department in Urmia.
At the Urmia facility, interrogators placed a bag over his head and poured water on his face to simulate drowning.
He was subjected to mock executions, removed from solitary confinement at night, and taken to an unknown room with his hands tied and eyes blindfolded. There, he was forced to stand on a stool for hours with a noose around his neck.
Interrogators placed an empty gun to his head and pulled the trigger, telling him that if he died during interrogation, his death would be covered up and his body hidden.
He was tied to a chair with his eyes covered and hands bound while officers administered electric shocks to force a confession.
Babamiri’s case is currently under review in Branch 10 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Urmia.
He faces multiple charges, including “waging war against God,” “rebellion,” “acting against national security,” “financing terrorism,” “propaganda,” “espionage,” “cooperation with hostile states,” “possession of satellite internet equipment,” “possession of unauthorized weapons,” and “membership in illegal groups.”
