Iranian national, Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan, who spent five years in US detention from 2007 to 2012, says she experienced awful conditions in American federal prisons.In the fifth episode of a Press TV documentary titled Memories of a Witness: Inside US Federal Prisons, in which she recounted her ordeal, Mir-Qolikhan, now 36, said the hygienic conditions in the detention centers where she was held were disgusting.
She added that she was held for 18 months in Miamis Federal Detention Center (FDC) one of the US federal prisons in a dirty cell shared with other inmates.
Mir-Qolikhan said every time she was moved to a new detention center she experienced new unbearable conditions.
She recalled a cell the floor of which was covered with dirty toilet water, saying she had to sleep in these unimaginable conditions.
Mir-Qolikhan stated that prisoners were forced to clean the cells once a year or every two years just before official teams came to inspect the prison conditions.
She said the most precious part of her life was wasted in US prisons, noting that her twin girls, who were aged 10 back in 2007, desperately needed their mother.
Mir-Qolikhan was detained in the US on charges of attempting to smuggle night vision goggles to Iran.
Her former husband, Mahmoud Seif, had allegedly tried to export night vision goggles to Iran from Austria. In an earlier episode of the program, Mir-Qolikhan explained that she had accompanied Seif to Austria, where she served as his interpreter in 2004.
According to Mir-Qolikhan, she was arrested in the Austrian capital of Vienna based on a request from the US government and was held in a dreaded detention center in the Austrian capital for 28 days before she was released when the US government failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing against her.
In the US, she was detained and sentenced to five years in prison by a Florida federal court in the absence of her husband.
By Press TV
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