The film 'Suicide' of Sina Ghanbari was screened for visiting representatives from Evin

The head of the Judiciary Commission of the Parliament announced that 4,534 people were arrested during the protests in December of this year, and reported that the film 'Suicide' of Sina Ghanbari was screened for the visiting representatives from Evin Prison. Allahyar Malekshahi stated in an interview with ISNA that 11 members of parliament visited Evin Prison on Tuesday, February 10. He added, 'Regarding the individual who was arrested during the protests and it was said that he committed suicide, the related film was viewed and the location where his body was found and possibly where he committed suicide was visited.' Malekshahi's reference could be to a film that the Attorney General had previously announced was recorded by prison surveillance cameras of Sina Ghanbari's 'suicide.' The Committee for Following Up on the Arrests of December 2017 had previously reported, citing two 'eyewitnesses,' that Sina Ghanbari was interrogated two days before his death and 'after being arrested, he told his cellmates that they had done a spring cleaning (beaten him) to the extent that some parts of his body were severely bruised.' According to this committee, the body of Sina Ghanbari was found on the morning of January 15, with 'a garbage bag tied around his neck, on the floor of the quarantine bathroom of Evin Prison by prisoners who were responsible for cleaning.' This committee announced on January 17 that Sina Ghanbari had died in Evin Prison. The head of the Judiciary Commission also referred to the statistics announced by the officials of the judiciary, stating that 4,533 people were arrested in various cities of Iran during the December protests, of which 438 are still imprisoned. Meanwhile, according to ILNA news agency, Fatemeh Saeedi, a representative from Tehran, announced that only four of the detainees from the December protests were in Evin Prison, with whom the representatives spoke. Malekshahi reported without detailing that the parliament members also visited Ward 209 of Evin Prison, which is managed by the Ministry of Intelligence. According to this report, it has been decided that the visiting representatives from Evin Prison will summarize their visit in a meeting tomorrow and make necessary decisions regarding it. Meanwhile, Mohammad Ali Vakili, another member of this delegation, announced that the representatives agreed not to comment on the details of the visit until the report is prepared. Allahyar Malekshahi as the head, Mohammad Ali Vakili as the representative of the board, Mohammad Dehghan, Mohammad Kazemi, and Mohammad Javad Fathi from the Legal and Judicial Commission, and Abdul Karim Hossein Zadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Boroumandi, Valiollah Nanavakani, Fatemeh Saeedi, and Ezzatollah Yusefian Molla are the representatives who visited Evin Prison on Tuesday. Following the recent nationwide protests in Iran and after reports of the deaths of several detainees in custody, which came with warnings from representatives about the possibility of a repeat of 'Kahrizak II,' a group of parliament members requested to visit Evin Prison. However, the judiciary agreed to this visit about three weeks later, and the representatives were only able to speak with four detained protesters from these protests. While reports of suspicious deaths of several protesters in other cities of Iran have also been published, the parliament members only visited Evin Prison. In addition to the ambiguous death of Sina Ghanbari, reports have been published about the deaths of Vahid Heydari and Shahab Abtahi Zadeh in Arak, Mohsen Adeli in Dezful, Saro Ghahramani and Kianoush Zandi in Sanandaj. Meanwhile, judicial officials of the Islamic Republic claim that they 'committed suicide' or that their deaths were not related to the protests. The Committee for Following Up on the Arrests of December 2017 had announced that a number of detainees had been 'severely beaten' and that 'methadone' had been distributed among them. Mahmoud Sadeghi, a representative from Tehran, had also previously reported on the 'distribution of methadone' among the detainees of the December protests. The Prison Organization denied this accusation and threatened to sue Mahmoud Sadeghi. In this context, Sadeghi reported that one of those who died in prison had informed about pills being fed to prisoners. Motahari called for an investigation into the 'suicides' of prisoners in Iranian prisons. A new report from the Committee for Following Up on Arrests indicates 'severe beatings' in prisons. A member of parliament reported on 'case-making' against a lawyer in connection with the case of a deceased protester from Arak. The Human Rights Campaign reported that some Iranian protesters have been charged with 'death penalty offenses.' 'Adverse weather conditions' prevented 10 members of parliament from visiting Evin Prison. The Iranian Minister of Interior stated that security and judicial forces acted with restraint during the recent unrest.