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Sixty-four Iranian political prisoners from Ward 350 of Evin Prison have issued an announcement declaring that Reza Hoda Saber, the jailed Iranian journalist who died on Saturday following nearly 10 days on a hunger strike, was severely beaten by authorities on the eighth day of his strike.

The Kaleme website reports that the political prisoners say Hoda Saber was beaten in the prison infirmary by officials who, they guess, may have been security or intelligence officers.

"Hoda Saber was first transferred to the infirmary located next to Evin Prison on Friday at 4AM for complications of his hunger strike and, after about two hours, he was returned to the Ward 350 in severe pain," the prisoners wrote. "His screams woke up his cellmates all around him."

He reportedly told his cellmates that instead of being cared for at the infirmary, he was insulted and beaten and later thrown out by officials wearing infirmary personnel uniforms.

They add that Hoda Saber was trembling and writhing with pain and screaming that he would file charges against them.