Narges Mohammadi's Note in Le Monde: Solitary Confinement is the Mother of Executions in Iran

Narges Mohammadi, a imprisoned human rights activist, referred to solitary confinement as the 'mother of executions in Iran' in a note published in the French newspaper 'Le Monde.' This Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has experienced solitary confinement four times, explained that 'false confessions' obtained from detainees 'during solitary confinement and under physical and psychological torture' are used by courts to issue death sentences based on these 'baseless and false confessions.' In this message, which coincides with the release of her book 'White Torture' in French, she stated that her aim in documenting these abuses is to 'stop acts of torture' and 'limit the tools of repression against protesters and activists.' This human rights activist emphasized that she considers 'the acts of white torture and the detention of defendants in solitary confinement as the cruel and oppressive behavior of the government.' Over the past three decades, Narges Mohammadi has been repeatedly arrested and imprisoned, and in her latest legal case, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for 'propaganda against the regime' and is currently held in Evin Prison in Tehran. On the day of her father's funeral, she expressed, 'Forgive me, I bid you farewell from behind the prison bars.' Female political prisoners staged a sit-in in support of Narges Mohammadi. Following the death of her father, Karim Mohammadi, he could not bear the 'longing to hear' his daughter's voice 'from the oppressive prison.' Narges Mohammadi joined the election boycott campaign, stating that the Islamic Republic deserves national boycott and global humiliation.