In series of tweets, Majid Tavakoli, former student activist, talked about his experience as a political prisoner for 7 years and over a year in solitary.

Tavakoli talked about the misunderstandings about torture and said that the “importance of torture is in its continuation. Because if an arm or a leg is broken, you are sent to the hospital and the torture ends.

According to Tavakoli, “torture becomes unbearable when it continues for hours and days. When you have to take beatings from several people from 8 am to 10 pm, and maybe longer.”

He mentions “blows to the forehead, top, and back of the head”, which do not leave a “mark” but they are “very painful” and the pain “remains overnight and sometimes for a few days”. He continues: “Blows to the top of the head are so heavy that they damage the lower jaw, to a point that you cannot open your mouth when you get back to your cell. You cannot even put a sugar cube in your mouth, let alone eat food. You can hardly open your mouth enough to drink water.”

Tavakoli also mentions that in Ward 209 of Evin prison, the rooms are soundproofed, “so slamming the prisoners’ head against the wall is very common. Sometimes the head gets injured by a nail or a wooden edge, but usually, it’s a pain without a bruise.”

He also talks about “being forced to watch someone getting tortured”, “group torture”, “stepping on one’s face”, and worst of all “lifting a person up by their hair while beating them simultaneously.” He says “sometimes sudden heavy beatings could lead to seizures and convulsion that would even take your interrogator by surprise. But next time he would brag “remember how you almost died in my hands? That shows you there is no oversight.”

The issue of torture became a hot topic on Persian social media after it was revealed that Esmail Bakhshi, labor activist who was arrested during the workers' protests in Shush, had been severely tortured in prison.

According to a source close to Bakhshi, he has been brutally beaten, hit in the testicles regularly by cable, to a point that he has difficulty sitting, walking, or sleeping.”

Tavakoli also mentions that torture is usually harsher outside of Tehran.