What is the difference between a prison and a detention center in Iran?
The attitude is different in a prison from a detention center. A prison is for those condemned and the prisoners’ issues are limited to food, access to books and newspapers or maybe time for outdoor activity, visitation and other accommodations during their captivity. But what determines the fate of the prisoners is what happens when they are in detention centers. If physical and psychological tortures are used to force confession, the captive’s destiny and his case is thereby determined. When a captive is kept in solitary confinement for a long period of time, with his eyes covered and faced with humiliation, he may confess and accept unfounded accusations. Long interrogation is another means of inflicting torture, along with the environment of the detention center. Violating personal, private and family boundaries and abusing the name of the spouse or mother is another way of tormenting the captive that may result in false confession. Heavy bail which sometimes is even more than what
