A former US Marine who was accused by Iran of spying and held for 4.5 years is suing Tehran over the “prolonged and continuous physical abuse” he endured while detained.
According to a lawsuit filed in Washington on Monday, May 9th, Amir Hekmati, a US-Iranian dual national from Michigan, was subjected to a slew of physical and psychological abuse while jailed in the notorious Evin Prison.
Hekmati was freed in a prisoner swap in January in which he and three other Iranian–American dual nationals, plus another American, were traded after Washington granted clemency to seven Iranians and withdrew arrest warrants for 14 others.
During his lengthy ordeal, Hekmati was “whipped at the bottom of his feet, struck by an electrical Taser to his kidney area, forced to stay in stress positions for hours at a time, and hit with batons”, the lawsuit states.
