• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Man who was tortured with silence for 8 months says he’s not a normal person after his release

Home> News

Published 18:11 3 Jan 2023 GMT

Man who was tortured with silence for 8 months says he’s not a normal person after his release

An Iranian man has spoken about the damaging impact being tortured with silence had on him as a 17-year-old

Callum Jones

Callum Jones

Featured Image Credit: CNN

Topics: Crime, World News, Iran

Callum Jones
Callum Jones

Advert

Advert

Advert

An Iranian man who was tortured with silence for eight months said in an interview that he was not a normal person after release.

Amir Fakhravar, the white room prisoner, was tortured back in 2004, which left him with terrifying horrors.

The white torture, which is often referred to as the white room torture, is a type of psychological torture technique that was aimed at making a person feel isolated from everyone.

Advert

A prisoner is held in a cell surrounded by white walls, completely muted, leaving them deprived of all their senses.

Amir Fakhravar was left in the white torture for eight months in 2004.
CNN

Not only is the room all white, but the food that is served to the prisoners is also the same colour.

In more modern times, the white room torture was used in Iran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in a covert detention center.

Advert

The prisoners that were kept in this center were traditionally journalists who questioned the Iranian regime through either speeches or writing.

Back in 2008, Fakhravar spoke to CNN about his time in the torture room, saying that the beatings and the broken bones he had previously suffered was 'nothing' compared to the white room torture - which certainly puts it into perspective.

Fakhravar said: "We didn't see any color, all of the cell was white, the floor was white, our clothes were white and also the light, 24 hours, was white. Our food, also, was white rice.

"We couldn't see any color and we couldn't hear any voices."

Advert

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard made the then medical student slip a white piece of paper under the door if he needed to go to the toilet.

Fakhravar was even fed white food in the torture room.
Independent / Alamy Stock Photo

Steps were taken to minimise sounds all the time, with the guards having to wear padded shoes to muffle any sound.

Fakhravar added: "I was there for eight months and after those months I couldn't remember my father and my mother's face.

Advert

"When they released me from that prison I was not a normal person."

He told CNN that he was arrested when he was just 17 after being critical of the Iranian regime through both speeches and writing.

Fakhravar claimed he spent five years moving between Iranian prisons where he was tortured, with the white torture beginning in January 2004 and ending in August that year.

He eventually managed to escape the torture, and fled to the US for a new life - but he told CNN he would not rest until he saw the regime change in Iran.

  • Terrifying moment live TV broadcast interrupted after station was bombed as anchor forced to flee
  • Catfish offered woman $9,000,000 to hire schoolboy to kill his friend before realizing who the person actually was
  • Man who only ate ‘carnivore diet’ for 8 months claimed his health improved despite suffering drastic side effects
  • Shocking footage shows moment crypto millionaire escapes NYC home he was tortured in as arrests are made

Choose your content:

19 mins ago
10 hours ago
11 hours ago
  • 19 mins ago

    Iran's foreign minister gave extremely telling response to Trump's claim cease fire deal is done

    There's been ongoing back-and-forth between Iran, Israel and the US for some time

    News
  • 10 hours ago

    Donald Trump issues surprising statement after Iran strikes US air base

    The president has issued a statement after Iran fired missiles at US air bases in Qatar and Iraq

    News
  • 11 hours ago

    'Lion whisperer' left fighting for his life after attack from same cat that killed his colleague last year

    Oleg Zubkov, the owner of the park, is said to be in a critical condition in hospital

    News
  • 11 hours ago

    Single mother, 48, diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's disease reveals first symptoms she noticed

    Rebecca Luna has also launched a fundraiser, knowing her condition will worsen

    News