New photos of Farhad Meysami, a pacifist Iranian political activist, after spending weeks on a hunger strike in prison, have enraged Iranians on social media. His worrying state of health, evident in these pictures, prompted some Iranians to compare his situation to that of prisoners in Nazi death camps.
With bones jutting out from his skin and eyes staring out into space, the man’s face is unrecognisable. This is no longer the same man who went on a hunger strike four months ago. On February 3, the BBC’s Persian service published new images of activist Farhad Maysami in the notorious Rajaei Shahr Prison in the suburbs of Tehran.
