Women

In May 2020, human rights lawyer Soheila Hejab was violently taken to the notorious Qarchak Prison after an appeals court hearing. Agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) brutalized and arrested her following her appeals court hearing. Reports indicate that the agents dragged her by her hair across asphalt and brutally beat her before taking her to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. Among the assailants was her former IRGC interrogator who has repeatedly threatened to have her killed by criminal inmates in prison. The agents of the Sarallah Base, which belongs to the Intelligence unit of the IRGC, punched and kicked Soheila in the head, face, and sides.