The progression is:
1. Arrest
2. Rape and humiliate
3. Brutal physical violence to obtain false confessions
4. Death from abuse or signed confessions.
5. Dead often thrown into the desert or dumped at home doorstep.
6. Kangaroo clerical courts which trot out the confessions.
7. Lawyers usually banned from restricted trials or not permitted to present a defense.
8. Harsh sentences at best EXECUTION most likely.
9. Mass hangings.
10. Some returned to prisons to serve sentences and continue to be tortured. (In any event you do not want to be a female prisoner or a young male).
11. Selection of one or more of the prisoners to be infiltrated into the West, preferably to the USA.
12. Chosen person like Akbar Ganji, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, even sadly brain damaged in prison, Ahmad Batebi, a genuine opposition student in the past,appear to be abused in prison, receive health furloughs and are then “spirited” with the blind eye of help of the Mala regime, into the West and then become spies and agents.
Their families are held hostage inside Iran.
Each of the infiltrated people were prepared with an exact same formula.
A similar case was Mohammad Mohamadi, whose brother died under duress in Evin prison which made him a perfect infilration candidate without any need to prepare a hardship/torture background for him.
They don't look dead in the pictures.