Iran - Clashes between political prisoners and their families with prison henchmen in Evin

On Monday December 21, 2015 During meeting political prisoners with their families, the political prisoners clash with henchmen in and intelligence elements of the Iranian regime. Because the henchmen and intelligence elements of the Iranian regime imposed Pressure on prisoners. In reaction to this protest, the security and inspection elements, along with other henchmen, attacked the prisoners and banned further visits. The henchmen openly told the political prisoners that they would like to treat them the way political prisoners were treated in the 1980s. In 1988, some 30000 political prisoners, the vast majority members of the main opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were executed within the span of a few months for refusing to renounce their opposition to the mullahs’ fundamentalist regime.