Evin prison

Iran is cracking down on protesters, unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and carrying out an “alarming” number of executions, the UN independent investigator on human…
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A wildfire on the outskirts of Iran’s capital triggered Friday an explosion of mines that had been planted around a high-security prison that houses political prisoners, but there were no injuries, state media reported. The official IRNA…
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“Listen to this! One. Two. Three!” Down the crackling phone line from the women’s wing of Tehran’s Evin Prison, a chorus of prisoners then launch into raucous song. It’s a Persian rendition of the Italian protest song “Bella Ciao.”…
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Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah was released from Iran’s Evin prison, France said on Friday, but it was unclear what the conditions of her release were. Adelkhah has been in prison since Iranian authorities arrested her in 2019…
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The head of Iran’s prison system acknowledged Tuesday that videos purportedly obtained by a self-described hacker group that show abuses at the Islamic Republic’s notorious Evin prison are real, saying he took responsibility for the…
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