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A 70-year-old grandmother has reportedly had her kneecaps broken by Iranian prison officials in Tehran's notorious Evin jail.

Human rights campaigner Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was said to have been under interrogation by officials when she was inflicted with the barbaric punishment.

She had been serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin jail for participating in anti-mandatory hijab protests.

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The news of the attack emerged from independent Iranian media which said the activist's knees had been broken by an interrogator during questioning.

Evin jail has a brutal reputation for its inhumane living conditions and merciless treatment of its detainees, with prisoners frequently subject to beatings and torture.

Frud Sabet, son of Shahriari, said he was yet to hear of his mother's condition since her initial trial.

He told RFERL Radio Farda : 'The family is very worried about her health. We don't know where she is, and we don't know if she's alive.'

Shahriari, a poet, was seized last summer as part of the Iranian regime's repression of the Baha'i community that saw several community leaders detained.

The Bahaʼi faith is a religion that counts up to eight million members in the world.

It was founded in the 19th century and developed in Iran and other areas of the Middle East, where its members have faced ongoing persecution.

The Islamic Republic of Iran does not recognise the Baha'i faith and the nation's judicial authorities have repeatedly called them 'spies and enemies' and issued death sentences, arrests and prison terms.

Followers are often deprived of education and banned from working, according to Radio Farda, the Iranian branch of the US-government-funded Radio Free Europe.

'We assume that the overcrowding of prisons and courts has affected my mother's fate,' Sabet told RFERL Radio Farda .

'But being completely unaware of her after issuing such a heavy sentence is not justified,' her son added.

Human rights activists and international organisations have repeatedly called out the Iranian authorities for the 'systematic violation of human rights' against members of the Baha'i faith, with widespread arrests and heavy sentences inflicted on them.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called the Baha'i faith a cult and in 2018 issued a religious fatwa.

As well as discrimination against those from the Baha'i faith, other Iranians are not allowed to have contact with them or engage in business with them.

Is it your leg?😄

wis3:
Is it your leg?😄

i hope that your moniker doesn't mean "wise", because this your comment isn't wise at all

oz4real83:
i hope that your moniker doesn't mean "wise", because this your comment isn't wise at all

Excuse you? Check the OP's threads. Over 500 topics. All anti-islam.

wis3:
Excuse you? Check the OP's threads. Over 500 topics. All anti-islam.

This is not anti-islam....

This is reporting human being's wickedness against fellow human beings

advanceDNA:
This is not anti-islam....

This is reporting human being's wickedness against fellow human beings

whatever rocks your boat. Who am I to stop the OP it he's so jobless he spends his whole time putting up only contents related to Islam?

wis3:
whatever rocks your boat. Who am I to stop the OP it he's so jobless he spends his whole time putting up only contents related to Islam?

...are u a muslim?? If u are...Mayb thats why dont see anything wrong about breaking someone's leg because of a piece of clothing....and all u see is attacking islam.....

The problem with accepting this news is that we don't know what is the truth and what is American propaganda?