There is a lot about prisons and political prisoners in Persepolis. Many opponents of the revolution were arrested in the years following the Iranian Revolution, and the number of prisoners executed increased dramatically from the years under the Shah. On pages 50 and 51 of Persepolis two men describe being tortured in prison: being whipped, having fingernails extracted, burned with an iron, and one man eventually being cut into pieces.
I did some research and apparently not much has changed in the prison system. In 2009 Iran's police chief admitted that people who were arrested for demonstrating after the presidential election were tortured in prison. The Kahrizak detention center in Tehran has been subject of much speculation and was closed after this incident. There were many stories of young prisoners being raped while imprisoned after the demonstrations, and human rights groups say that at least three prisoners have died at Kahrizak after being subject to torture.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/09/iran-protesters-torture-election
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