Hamid Sotounzadeh was handcuffed and detained by police while protesting outside the embassy on Thursday morning and was found lying concussed by fellow protesters.
An Iranian-Australian human rights protester who has been hospitalised with serious injuries claims an Australian Federal Police officer assaulted him while peacefully protesting outside the Iranian embassy in Canberra.
Sotounzadeh insists he was protesting peacefully at the time and the officer who arrested him used excessive force to arrest him. “The person was handcuffed for a brief period of time, however, complained of back pain,” the spokesperson said.“The person was released from custody and conveyed to the Canberra Hospital by the ACT Ambulance Service.”Sotounzadeh said he was protesting peacefully on the footpath outside the embassy around 6.20am when two AFP protective services officers approached him and told him he was behaving in a suspicious and intimidating manner.
Greens Senator David Shoebridge described the incident as “deeply shocking” and called for an urgent independent investigation into the officers’ conduct during the arrest.
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