The wife and two children of political prisoner Abbas Lessani were beaten up by Intelligence Ministry agents after his wife released a tape recording on her husband going on hunger strike in protest to insulting comments directed against Iranian Azeris in the state television.
One of the children is badly bruised and has run into respiratory problems because of the beating.
Abbas Lessani is imprisoned for protesting the government for the drying up of Iran’s famous Orumieh Lake.