Warning: This report contains accounts of arrest, torture, and an attempt to end one’s life. Reading it may not be suitable for everyone. If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, please call Social Emergency at 123 in Iran, 911 in Canada and the US, 999 in the UK, and 112 in Europe.
"IranWire" has obtained information and documents showing that 35-year-old Ehsan Rezapour, a resident of the Andisheh neighborhood in Karaj who lived in Bonn, Germany, returned to Iran in February. After his passport was confiscated at Tehran’s "Khomeini" Airport and following two separate summonses to a safehouse for hours of interrogation, he was ultimately arrested on the street by Basij forces on March 10.
Nothing was heard from him for two days. When he returned, "his ear and nose were broken, his vision in his right eye was impaired due to a blow, and his right jaw was also damaged." The skin on his back was completely red and inflamed from multiple strikes with a stun gun and a thin electrical cable, and he kept talking about his "forced confession" video. Ehsan was distressed and anxious, saying they had threatened to broadcast the video.
Finally, on March 29, after receiving a phone call from the "Intelligence" agency summoning him for a third time, he "procured gasoline" and set himself on fire that same evening. According to a death certificate viewed by IranWire, he passed away on April 6 due to "burn injuries."
