metro.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0from a location\u00a0In Paris.<\/p>\n\u2018Perhaps someone had taken my license plate down and reported me.\u2019<\/p>\n
He was wrong.<\/p>\n
What followed was an arrest, months of interrogation, what he described as brutal beatings and solitary confinement, followed by a\u00a0trial that lasted a matter of minutes and then five years in prison.<\/p>\n
But the taxi driver was one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n
Arrested in 2009 and then released from prison in 2014, he was one of tens of thousands of prisoners incarcerated at\u00a0that time.<\/p>\n
But while he faced a five year prison term, others wouldn\u2019t escape with their lives.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International estimates that\u00a0between 2013 and 2015 around 2,000 people have been\u00a0executed in Iran.<\/p>\n
And a recent escalation \u2013 including the hanging of\u00a020 Sunni inmates at\u00a0Gohardasht Prison earlier this month\u00a0\u2013 has left many fearing we could see a return of something akin to one of the bloodiest periods in Iran\u2019s recent history.<\/p>\n
In 1988 the regime executed\u00a0as many as\u00a030,000 political prisoners. Something which The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom recently said should be considered a crime against humanity.<\/p>\n
In 2009, Farzad became a political prisoner himself. His active support of the People\u2019s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), an opposition group within Iran, had captured the attention of the authorities.<\/p>\n
\u2018When I went inside the station I saw that the atmosphere was not normal,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018There were several plain clothes policemen there.\u00a0I didn\u2019t realise at the time but they were agents of the ministry of intelligence.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Farzad said once they realised it was him, he was jumped on and his possessions\u00a0confiscated.<\/p>\n
\u2018I asked them \u201cwho are you?\u201d they told me \u201cit has nothing to do with you\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018I said \u201cgive me a warrant\u201d, \u201ctell me what it\u2019s about\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018They took a hood out put it on my head and threw me in a\u00a0car.\u2019<\/p>\n
He would be taken\u00a0to Evin Prison and its notorious Ward 209 \u2013 run by the intelligence ministry.<\/p>\n
While there he would get first hand experience of the brutal methods used by interrogators to extract information from their prisoners.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018They would take me at eight or nine in the morning or eight or nine in the evening.<\/p>\n
\u2018Whatever information they wanted from me, if I wouldn\u2019t give it to them they would start to beat me.<\/p>\n
\u2018There was three of them and they would kick me around like a football.<\/p>\n
\u2018This was not just to extract information from me also they wanted me to make a false confession.<\/p>\n
\u2018Provide false evidence against the PMOI. In essence, to lie about everything I believed in.<\/p>\n
\u2018But to be honest with you the worst of the torture was the solitary confinement.\u2019<\/p>\n
Farzad would spend two three month spells in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n
The long spells can have a particularly sharp impact on both physical and mental health.<\/p>\n
British mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has just faced trial in Iran after she was\u00a0accused of being a \u2018Western spy\u2019, was left unable to walk after 45 days.<\/p>\n
And ward 209 is not just for supporters of the PMOI.<\/p>\n
Farzad explained:\u00a0\u2018Anybody who is arrested by the intelligence ministry of the revolutionary guard. First of all they are tortured, nothing else.<\/p>\n
\u2018Unless that particular person from day one is willing to cooperate and say what ever the regime wants, that\u2019s the only exception.<\/p>\n
\u2018But even that is only after torture.\u2019<\/p>\n
As a supporter of the PMOI, Farzad had taken part in human rights activities, supported\u00a0families of prisoners and conveyed their news outside Iran.<\/p>\n
He also took part in anti-regime protests, as he explained his \u2018first priority was activities against the regime.\u2019<\/p>\n
Such activity carries a risk but as Farzad explained it was one he, and others, were prepared to face.<\/p>\n
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He said: \u2018It is the right of any individual to protest. I recognise this right for myself as well.<\/p>\n
\u2018Many of my other friends realised this right for themselves.<\/p>\n
\u2018Of course, the price is high many of them are in prison now, are executed now.<\/p>\n
\u2018I accepted that if it comes to that I would be willing to pay the price for it with my life.<\/p>\n
\u2018For me this sort of thing happened a lot in prison.\u2019<\/p>\n
For his participation in anti-regime\u00a0activities, Farzad would eventually face two charges, something akin to \u2018Enmity against God\u2019 and also Having a Relationship with the PMOI.<\/p>\n
He did appear in court, but not in a manner we would be used to seeing in the UK.<\/p>\n
\u2018I was taken once to court.\u00a0When the court session was held, it lasted five minutes,\u2019 he continued.<\/p>\n
\u2018In five minutes the judge told me you are accused of War on God and having a Relationship with the PMOI they do not give me a chance to defend myself.<\/p>\n
\u2018I just told them \u201ca lot to what you are saying are lies, I don\u2019t accept what you are saying\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Two weeks later they informed me I had a five year sentence.\u2019<\/p>\n
Farzad would sevre four years of his term under\u00a0Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s rule and then the final year under that of Hassan Rouhani, the current president.<\/p>\n
He said in that time, and since his release, things have got worse, not better.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u2018For us not only did the human rights situation not improve it got worse.<\/p>\n
\u2018The atmosphere in prison became more closed, for example, hospital treatment for those that are ill, that was put off completely.<\/p>\n
\u2018The number of arrests increased; teachers workers, all sorts of people.\u00a0Also the number of executions of prisoners was higher.\u2019<\/p>\n
The increasing level of suppression has led to a growing fear that the government could exercise its power in a mass execution akin to that in 1988.<\/p>\n
Last year alone, Amnesty International says some 977 prisoners were executed.<\/p>\n
Farzad fears a repeat of what occurred in 88 is as a real possibility.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018The atmosphere of the prisons is closed again and even the prisoners are warning their own relatives of this.<\/p>\n
\u2018For example, just yesterday a letter was published by an opposition website from political prisoners warning the international community and human rights groups that another mass execution could take place.\u2019<\/p>\n
Multiple demonstrations have taken place across the world, including London, in recent weeks attempting to draw attention to what is happening in Iran.<\/p>\n
\u2018Right now is a very worrying time inside Iran\u2019 he continued. \u2018The social atmosphere is very intense.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s like a powder keg every day there are protests and anything can trigger a protest.<\/p>\n
\u2018The only tool the regime has to be able to maintain power is suppression and, in particular, execution.<\/p>\n
\u2018The western governments must put pressure on the regime to make it stop.\u2019<\/p>\n
He added: \u2018Right now these days you can find multiple\u00a0protest in Tehran daily. Teachers, workers, this is of economic nature but a lot of it is political.<\/p>\n
\u2018But all these protests what they seek is a regime change. This is very visible.<\/p>\n
\u2018You can see it in the slogans they are chanting, the way they are acting and the protests they are holding.<\/p>\n
\u2018All these arrests and executions they show Iranian society wants change.\u2019<\/p>\n
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