NEWS | Christian Prisoner: Mental Torture is Common Practice in Iranian Prisons

The Iranian regime continues its intense crackdown on Christianity and continues to inflict intense abuse on those taken to prison. An Iranian Christian who was held and then released and just recently fled to seek asylum outside of Iran shares about the abuse and torture that he suffered while in prison. While some stories of imprisoned Christians makes it into the news, many more stories are never told especially from the smaller cities around Iran. Photo: Six men in their teens received lashes for what the "committing mischief in the streets," on August 2007, in Qazvin, 160 kilometers northwest of the capital Tehran. NCR-IRAN