HRANA News Agency – Iranian security forces raided a birthday party held at a traditional café in Tabriz and arrested 31 young men and women.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Sunday, October 30, 2011, security forces entered a café located at Azerbaijan intersection in Tabriz and arrested 16 female and 15 male guests.During the arrest, the police beat and battered the attendees before taking them into custody.
The detainees were first taken to Police Station 13 in Tabriz and then transferred to a detention center at Sayeb Street at 8:00pm.The prisoners were blindfolded and taken to the yard where they waited over two hours and beaten and battered again before being transferred.During this long wait, the detainees’ hands and feet were numb and pale in the freezing weather.
At the end, the prisoners were booked and then released on bail.
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