A Christian man jailed in Iran for being a member of a "deviant religion" endured gruelling torture inside the walls of an infamous prison and was unable to comfort his terminally ill son before he died.
Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari has told the Mirror of his ordeal in messages smuggled from prison, where he has been incarcerated for six years.
In December 2021, single parent Yasser was hit with the worst news of his life. His only child and beloved son Amir-Ali had died from complications related to his congenital cerebral palsy at a care facility in Tehran.
