Iranian Woman Arrested In 3 AM Raid, Allegedly Tortured

Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a resident of Alvand city in Qazvin province who lives with her elderly mother, was arrested by security forces at her personal residence on April 4. Aside from her mother, who has been left alone since April, Ms. Hashemi has no one else to follow up on her case.

At the time of the arrest, around three in the morning, plainclothes agents raided the home she shared with her mother, cut through the door using a metal grinder, and confronted the young woman.

Two months after her arrest, Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani, remains detained without trial in Qazvin Central Prison (Choobindar). She is being held in poor psychological condition after being subjected to severe physical abuse and forced to make self-incriminating confessions during interrogations.

A source familiar with the case and close to her family told that security forces used physical violence, beatings and torture to extract forced confessions. Videos of these confessions were later broadcast by Qazvin’s provincial state television network as part of what the source characterized as a security-driven narrative.

The source added that the intense physical and psychological pressure has left Hashemi Bazargani in a severely deteriorated mental condition while in prison.