The Muslim guards at Iran’s Evin Prison used the excuse of inmates resisting an inspection as a reason to brutally beat a Christian pastor located in another part of the prison.

Pastor Farshid Fathi, who is serving six years after being convicted on the same kind of false charges used to keep American pastor Saeed Abedini in custody.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide told the Christian Post that the pastor suffered broken bones in the brutal assault.

“Today I celebrate our Lord’s resurrection in a mixed feeling of joy and pain in a different way and in a different place,” Pastor Fathi wrote from his cell.  “My left foot is in a cast after they broke it last Thursday in violations they applied against helpless prisoners under the excuse of inspections. After three days of pain, finally they took me chained and shackled to a hospital on Easter morning. Though I was in a dire pain, I took it as a gift from our Lord to get out of prison even for few hours.”

Pastor Fathi has been subjected to extreme mental torture during this imprisonment.