Wax mannequins silently portray the horrific acts of torture that once were carried out within its walls. Those tortured sat in a chair and had a metal bucket strapped over their head, like a space helmet, that intensified their screams. “They put my fingers and toes between the jaws of the vises firmly, whipped the soles of my feet with cables and put a metal bucket over head,” Sheikhi said. “I did not know that the torture might have been this agonizing, such as with the metal cage torture device,” she said. A former mayor of Tehran even planned to make Evin Prison a park at one point.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 06, 2019 07:30 UTC