The Torture of Abdollah Momeni

Abdollah Momeni was arrested 45 days ago at the headquarters of Karroubi. He is a spokesperson for the student reform group Iranian Alumni Association. He was allowed to see his family yesterday and his wife reports that he has lost nearly 40 pounds since being tortured by this regime. This is a hearbreaking report about the affect of this regime on one family from Momeni's wife:

“My children did not even recognize Mr. Momeni. We were extremely shocked to see him like that.”

“They brought him from the Evin Prison in a green car. When he exited the car, he would have fallen down if his brother and I hadn’t held him up. He couldn’t walk even one step. We helped him walk to the visitation room."

“We could not believe our eyes, Abdollah’s hair and beard had grown and were completely disheveled. His face had extremely darkened due to weight loss. His eyes were puffy and the area under them was bruised.”

“Abdollah’s voice was severely shaking, and he couldn’t even talk. The children were traumatized to see him like that and only cried, constantly asking, ‘what happened to dad?’”

“My husband is still in solitary confinement and subjected to extreme physical and psychological torture. He has lost about 20 kilograms.”

“The person who we saw today wasn’t Mr. Abdollah Momeni at all; he was just skin and bones who had lost his mental and psychological stability and was unable to move or speak. Nothing is left of Abdollah.”

“The children are shocked and scared. The children have only been crying since we came back. They don’t know what has happened to their father. We cannot calm them.”

“Today, when I saw Abdollah’s condition and my children’s cries, I asked the interrogator if this is fair to my family which has lost five martyrs in the Iran-Iraq war. What have you done to my husband?”