A 20-Year-Old Afghan Refugee Killed by the Iranian Police

HRANA News Agency – Ehsanullah Ehsani, 20-year-old refugee from Afghanistan in Yazd province who was arrested by police previously, died in Fatemeh Alzahra hospital as the result of being beaten in the detention.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Friday, May 13, 2016, Ehsanullah Ehsani had been arrested by police previously and finally, as a result of injuries caused by tortures of officers to extract confessions, was transferred to a hospital while being in coma on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 and died in hospital two days later on May 20.
Yadu’llah Ehsani, his brother, in an interview with the reporters of HRANA confirmed the news and said: “My younger brother was 20 years old. About 5 months ago he was arrested on charge of theft by the police in the city of Yazd but he rejected the charge and said that he was innocent and he was released. Until Friday, May 13, when he was arrested once again in the streets.”
Then Mr. Ehsan said: “My father searched all of police stations in Yazd and finally realized that he was held in police intelligence. But we were not allowed to visit him. They said to my father that an electric shocker had been discovered from Ehsanollah while being arrested. But I asked a friend who was with him and he said he had no shockers, someone else had shockers and my brother was just close to him and they all were arrested by police.”
He emphasized: “My brother was able to call my father from detention and said that he had confessed under torture what he had not done. They had told him ‘despite the confession we will kill you.’”
The Ehsani family was told that their son was hospitalized in coma in Fatemeh Alzahra hospital of Yazd on Wednesday, May 18, 2016.
Mr. Ehsani mentioned the signs of torture on his brother’s face and head and continued: “My parents saw him only from behind of the glass of CCU room. And from there my father had seen bruises on his face and my mother had seen the troughs on his head.”
Finally, on Friday, May 20, 2016, doctors informed the family that Ehsanollah Ehsani had died due to “cerebral hemorrhage and rupture of heart tissue caused by being beaten.”
Mr. Ehsani said at the end: “My parents still have not received the body of my brother and perhaps they will never see the body.”

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