Iran systematically tortures its journalists to extract confessions. A new study carried out by University of Toronto professor Anthony Feinstein found that 19.3 percent of the 114 Iranian journalists, who took part in the research, have been tortured. Among them is Iranian journalist Siamak Ghaderi. In this video, he describes how interrogators made him confess by pushing his head into the toilet.

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Watch more videos in this series:

Working as a Journalist in Iran: The Psychological Impacts

Siamak Ghaderi - 9 months Imprisonment

Siamak Ghaderi - Torture in Toilet

Siamak Ghaderi - Imprisonment’s Effect on Family Life

Siamak Ghaderi - Cleric Fainted When Forced to Confess on TV

Farzaneh Mirzavand: A Journalist’s Wife

Fereshteh Ghazi - Illegal Arrest

Fereshteh Ghazi - They Broke My Nose During Interrogation

Fereshteh Ghazi - Charged with Espionage

Fereshteh Ghazi - I Was Put in a Cell With Dangerous Criminals

Fereshteh Ghazi - My Interrogator Lied that My Mother had Died

Shahram Rafizadeh - Sexual Innuendo

Shahram Rafizadeh - “Miracle Room”

Naeimeh Doostdar - Detained on a Plane

Naeimeh Doostdar - Evin, The Notorious Prison

Naeimeh Doostdar - Psychological Tortures

Naeimeh Doostdar - They Ignored Our Feminine Needs