Hengaw has reported that Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh, a 16-year-old Kurdish boy who was arrested in November 2022 through the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests in Iran, died on Jan. 4 from accidents sustained whereas being tortured in jail.
Sardasht; Barzin Hamzezadeh, one of many Kurdish youngsters arrested within the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi motion, died on account of accidents attributable to torturehttps://t.co/9LYsGrReVv
— Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) January 3, 2024
Hengaw screens human rights violations in Iran with a concentrate on Kurdish areas within the nation and has volunteers working for it in Germany, Kurdistan and Norway.
The video captures the preliminary moments of Barzin Hamzehzadeh, a Kurdish little one, being apprehended by two Iranian safety forces. Despite one little one managing to flee, Barzin was forcibly subdued by the brokers. Unable to put him of their car, the brokers preserve management… pic.twitter.com/xbwbUDbWBM
— Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) January 7, 2024
Barzin, who was 15 years previous on the time of his arrest, advised his buddies whereas in detention that officers prevented him from utilizing the toilet for lengthy intervals of time and gave him contaminated water to drink, resulting in acute dehydration and extreme stomach ache. Security forces are additionally alleged to have crushed Barzin so severely that he misplaced each kidneys.
Officials despatched Barzin to a medical heart in Urmia, a metropolis within the West Azerbaijan province of Iran, in concern that {the teenager} might die from his sick therapy. His situation worsened, and he was transferred to a hospital in Tehran the place docs identified him with an autoimmune dysfunction. They advisable dialysis as a type of therapy following suspected kidney failure, Hengaw added.
A Jan. 7 put up on the social media platform X, previously Twitter, by Hengaw detailed Barzin’s expertise within the detention heart, subsequent medical therapy, and a video exhibiting his arrest.
The video exhibiting Barzin’s arrest on a avenue in Iran features a sequence of distressing scenes, together with officers dragging him on the bottom and threatening him. Several members of Iran’s safety forces might be seen surrounding {the teenager} and forcing him right into a car.
In March 16 report, Amnesty International documented the systemic torture of kids in Iran’s prisons and detention facilities, together with electrical shocks, floggings, and sexual violence.
The human rights group additionally discovered that youngsters have been routinely given unsafe water to drink and denied entry to bathrooms and hygiene amenities.
Mahmoud Rakhshani, a 19 year-old boy from the Baluch neighborhood, was tortured to demise on Dec. 11 by intelligence brokers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), based on a Dec. 13 Hengaw report.
His physique was launched to the household after they reluctantly signed a doc which prevented them from launching a lawsuit towards the federal government or publicly speaking about their son’s demise.
Iran is at present the world’s most prolific executioner of kids.