Reports indicate the following: 

• Approximately 29,400 people have been arrested in recent months due to nationwide protests. The detainees are university students, children, artists, writers, shopkeepers, teachers, health care professionals, scientists, photographers and journalists, human rights defenders, dual citizens, ethnic and religious minorities, and environmentalists. 

•  In addition to arrests at protests, regime officials have utilized phone logs, text messages, social media, and private chats as incriminating evidence to arrest individuals. 

  Undocumented detainees if they don’t have valid IDs?

• Many detainees are often denied any communication and phone calls with their families. 

• Detainees are kept in inhumane and unsanitary conditions, and prisons remain overcrowded: 

• Women have developed various infections as there are no facilities for washing and drying

• clothes and underwear (). 

• There is a lack of food and water 

• Insufficient bathroom facilities 

• Insufficient number of beds resulting in many detainees sleeping on the floor

• Poor Ventilation 

• Insect infestations 

• Prisoners are met with torture and ill-treatment for the purpose of intimidation, punishment, and humiliation. Said treatments have also been used as interrogation tactics to force false confessions. 

CNN special report uncovers dozens of 'black sites' used for torturing protesters

Torture and ill-treatment of detainees have been reported as the following: 

• Sexual Violence and Humiliation - interrogators/prison guards have perpetrated sexual violence against detainees, including rape or threats of rape, administering electric shocks to genital areas, forced nakedness, invasive body searches, and sexual verbal abuse.

• Prolonged solitary confinement - Some detainees are given prolonged solitary confinement and only removed from their cells for the purpose of lengthy interrogations, physical and psychological torture, and forced confessions. 

• Beatings - Some of the most widespread methods of physical torture include beatings with sticks, batons, and cables, punching, kicking, and flogging. Many released detainees have broken body parts, severe cuts, and painful bruises. 

• Suspension and Stress Positions - Some detainees are suspended in different positions (i.e., hung face down from their feet, hands and feet tied together from behind and attached to an iron bar). In many cases, suspensions are accompanied by forced confessions, beatings, and floggings. 

• Electric Shocks - Security officials have subjected detainees, including children, to electric shocks using weapons such as stun guns and batons. 

• Death threats and Mock Executions - In attempts to induce fear and shock amongst detainees, prison guards have blindfolded victims and subjected them to mock hanging as well as holding an unloaded gun to their head and firing blanks. 

• Forced Administration of Chemical Substances (Yalda and link this to mysterious deaths)

 - A number of detainees have been forced to swallow unidentified pills. Those who refuse to take the pills are met with violence, beatings, and forced to take them. It is reported that these pills have had intoxicating and sedative effects on detainees and, in some cases, killed them. 

- Yalda Aghafazli, a 19-year-old who died shortly after being released from prison, had no medical preconditions. Hospital tests indicated a high number of narcotics in Yalda’s blood system. Similar reports of poisoning have been made about several other released detainees (.)

- Released detainees are often advised by friends and family to do blood tests upon release and undergo detoxification processes 

Denial of Medical Care (Meysami)- Many protesters who were injured with birdshot and metal pallets were arrested at hospitals whilst seeking medical care. 

- Doctors and health care professionals are often banned from treating injured protesters. Dr. Aida Rostami, an Iranian doctor who treated protesters in secret voluntarily, was murdered for doing so by regime forces (.)

- In prisons, interrogators routinely fail to ensure that injured/sick detainees are given medical care. Not only the denial of medical care but detainees are also often threatened with more pain and physical torture. 

Psychological Torture - Detainees are continuously threatened with arrest and harm to their family members. Reports have also indicated that interrogators hold detainees in cells where they can hear the sounds of other detainees getting tortured, screaming, and crying from pain to induce fear.

Secret Prisons and Detention Centers. 

In addition to holding and torturing detainees in local and state prisons such as Evin, an investigation published on February 22nd by CNN reveals locations of more than 40 unofficial torture centers and undeclared prisons in places such as government facilities. It is reported that these secret prisons and detention centers are used for torturing and extracting false confessions from protesters.