Saravan prisoners, who are mostly Sunni, are not allowed to have their own religious books. This restriction does not apply to prisoners of other religions, especially Shi’ites.

There are more than 700 prisoners in Saravan Prison, the vast majority of whom are Baluchis and Sunnis, but despite this, they are barred from importing Sunni jurisprudential ideological and religious books.

Saravan Prison Library has 9,000 volumes of books, the vast majority of which are books with Shi’ite religious beliefs and views.

Prisoners in Saravan Prison complain about the existence of books that insult “Sunni beliefs.”

Some prisoners who complained were reprimanded, tortured, and harassed.