The Iranian security forces arrested a Kurdish student and his father who were said tortured at the Inelegance Ministry’s jails in Orumiyeh for over ten days before being sent to the city’s central prison.
A reliable local source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “the Intelligence [Ministry] officers of Orumiyeh dressed in civilian clothes chased the care of Farhad Peiqami, a Kurdish architecture student at Orumiyeh University on 5 August. They fired dozens of bullets at his car to make him stop. When Farhad stopped, he was arrested. Officers went to his father’s home and searched the house, confiscated some of Farhad’s personal belongings and arrested his father Hassan Peiqami as well.”
The source said that “the two detained Kurdish citizens were taken to Orumiyeh Intelligence detention centre, the interrogators severely tortured Farhad Peiqami to make him confess on whatever he was being accused of by the officers. On 19 August, and after being tortured for 12 days, the Kurdish student who had blood all over his clothes as well as black and blue parts all over his face and body was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison along with his father Hassan Peiqami.”
The source went on to say that “the father was sent to ward 3 and 4 known as drug offenders’ ward, and his son had been sent to young prisoners ward.
Farhad has refused to take off his blood-stained clothes and demanded legal advice to expose what had happened to him at the hands of the Intelligence [Ministry] officers.”
The KHRN source added: “Hassan Peiqami [he father] had been sentenced to two years in prison in exile by Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court back in 2008, as he was then accused of having acted against Iran’s national security.”
He had served his two-year prison sentence in Tabriz and Orumiyeh prisons.
