Tehran, Jan. 13 -- One of Iran's prominent women activist, Sepideh Qolian has narrated the brutality the prisoners are facing and forced confessions on Iranian television in a letter she wrote from Evin prison in Tehran, local media reported.

Qolian was arrested in 2018 and convicted of working "against national security" for supporting a strike and protest by workers at a sugar factory in Iran's Khuzestan province. She is serving a five-year sentence.

According to the BBC, Qolian talked about how the authorities forced the detainees to confess during the brutal interrogation process.

The activist drew attention to the current protests in Iran, which erupted after the death of 22-year-old Mohsa Amini, and said, "In the fourth year of m...