By Akbar Sultani, citizen journalist in QazvinIn the early days of Iran’s protest movement calling for more freedoms and gender equality, four young men took to the main street of the northwestern city of Qazvin to hand chocolates to by-passers and give "free hugs".In our opinion, this was the most peaceful way to protest the existing situation," Vahid, a member of the group, told IranWire."On November 12, we were on Khayyam Street for 15 minutes when a motorbike approached us and a person said we should be cautious because he had seen plainclothes officers watching us”.Hadi, another friend who managed to escape from the security forces, said, "when Mohammad was taken from the street, there was no injured person there…the Basij forces and plainclothes officers were completely healthy and none of them had been injured".A conscript who witnessed Nasiri’s interrogations told his friends he had been beaten so hard on the first day of his transfer to Qazvin’s Chubindar prison that his face was unrecognizable."