"It was under medieval times type tortures that I realised we live in a society ruled by fear, torture and terror. It was during the three months that I spent in a solitary cell, beaten and interrogated constantly that I realised it is not the people who rule this country, but fear that govern the people and in the nation of fear and terror, people has no meaning", Mr. Mohammadi says in an open letter written from prison to Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi, the Iraqi-born Head of the Judiciary.

In their letter, the MMs (Member of Majles) expressed their "fear" to see the same "shame that humiliated the regime’s Intelligence apparatus befallen to the Judiciary", referring to the Information ministry’s acknowledgment that its agents killed prominent Iranian dissidents.

Mr. Mohammadi, who serves a 15 years jail term for "activity against the security of State", "contacts with counter-revolutionaries" outside Iran and "receiving money and assistance from foreign elements" was arrested less than two years ago on his return from a trip he made to Europe and the United States, where he in fact met many Iranian dissidents opposed to the present theocracy.

"Your men are interested in one thing only: to get confessions, written or tapped, at any cost, as, in their opinion, confession means document attesting to the guilt. It was in such a way, under tortures that I could bear no more that I also confessed to things I have never done, the confessions that was shown on the Television, confessions that were dictated to me by three clerics", he further reveals.

[Mr. Abbas Amir Entezam, a Deputy Prime Minister under Mr. Mehdi Bazargan, post revolution’s first Premier, and Iran’s longest political prisoner has catalogued 140 different methods of tortures that are used in Iran prisons.]

"It was under tortures that I got lung disease, teeth infection, ear wound and other maladies that both my brother and myself decided to submit to the will of our torturers who would continue beating Mr. Mohajerinezhad even though he had collapsed unconscious and subjected to other tortures I do not deem to explain here but would describe to you in person", Mr. Mohammadi goes on.

Demanding a public re-trial held in presence of lawyers and jury, "as stated by laws", the outspoken students leader then asks Mr. Shahrudi if he is aware of the number of prisoners held in private jails and what happens to them? "You either don’t know or are not interested in knowing or you know and keep silent. No matter, but in either case, both the wise and awakened Iranian people and history will hold you responsible for the gross injustice committed under your office", he tells Mr. Hashemi-Shahrudi.

"We are prisoners of conscience tortured in infamous places such as the Tohid detention Centre which is supervised by the Ministry of Information. We are innocent political hostages at the hands of real criminals who enjoy full freedom. Do you, Mr. Shahrudi, sincerely think that because the Judicial system in Islamic it therefore is also a just one and sentences they deliver are also just? If this is the case, why you do not condemn the injustice brought to us? Mr. Mohammadi asks.

Mohammadi describes as "utterly unjust" the two years he and his younger brother have spent in prison "let alone the 13 and 15 years we were sentenced" and reminds the Head of the Judiciary that contrary to his promises when he took over "the ruins", he failed to reform the Iranian justice, a reference to Mr. Shahrudi’s statement that his predecessor, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, had ruined the Judiciary he took over.