Interrogations. Torture. Simulated executions.
The accounts of the interior of Iran’s prison are as painful as they are rare – many of those locked up inside never do so.
The notorious installation, on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Tehran, is used to host political prisoners who dare to show dissent to the country’s Islamist regime.
In the last days of his war with Iran, Israel used fighter planes to bomb the prison, the best politicians in the country turning the attack on June 23 as a symbolic blow against his Arc enemy.
Asghar Jahangir, spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary, was quoted in the country’s media yesterday, according to 71 people, was killed in the attack.
He said the number included “administrative staff, young people doing their military service, detainees, family members who visited them and the neighbors who lived in the vicinity of the prison”.
Analysts interpreted strikes as a clear sign that Israel had widened its objectives from military and nuclear installations.
Evin prison has hosted many political prisoners who denounce the Iranian regime. (Wana: Majid Asgaripour via Reuters))
Anoosheh Ashoori, British-Iranian engineer, was detained in Evin prison from August 2017 to March 2022, after being accused of spying.
He said he was kidnapped in the street in Iran in Iran to visit his mother after having a knee operation.
He was grouped in a car and his event had started.
“They have their eyes bandaged and they ordered me to put my head on the knees of the person sitting next to my left,” he said.
“After a while, I could hear traffic, the sound of traffic is fading.”
Mr. Ahoori was taken to Evin prison.
Mr. Ahoori said he was kept in isolation, to have received “naufraire food”, and to prevent sleeping, with a shiny projector on his head.
“It was so scary,” he said.
“My days were in this cell of 2 meters by 3 meters, with the sound of a defective air conditioning unit as well as to hear all the noises of crying, beggars, groaning others in neighboring cells.”
During his stay at Evin prison, Mr. Ashoori said he had spent 116 days in two interrogation centers, including one managed by the body of the Islamic revolutionary guard.
“The pressure was so much and the threats to kill my family members were so real,” he said.
“After a certain time of sleep deprivation, long hours of interrogation, I mean, you call it and it happens to you.”
Evin prison strike damaged vehicles in the surroundings. (Wana: Majid Asgaripour via Reuters))
Destruction around Evin prison
A video shared by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Gideon Sa’ar, on social networks, showed an entry to the exploded complex and the text that accompanies it: “Long live Freedom, Damn It!”
However, doubt has now been thrown on these images, with Experts saying to ABC News check that it could be generated by AI.
This does not mean that the prison was not struck, however.
Last week, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the Air Force struck “regime targets and government’s repression agencies” in Tehran, including Evin prison.
The video broadcast on Iranian state television has shown general destruction outside the establishment, and the emergency services carrying a man injured on the stage on a stretcher.
The prison was built about 50 years ago and has gained notoriety since the 1979 Iran Islamic Revolution.
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It now houses thousands of demonstrators, journalists, people accused of spying, activists and academics.
Human rights organizations have criticized the number of detainees in Evin accused of arbitrary offenses to all offenses like “enmity against God” and “corruption on earth”.
Both are liable to death and are used by the Iranian regime as Trump Judicial cards to stop dissidents.
Australian academic Kylie Moore-GilbertWho was arrested when he was attended a conference in Iran, spent more than two years in prison on spying.
She was finally Released in 2020 As part of an exchange of prisoners.
The Australian government has described the allegations against it as “baseless”.
Last week, she went to social networks to publish a video of Israel’s strike on the establishment and wrote: “Each person who has ever passed under these doors, or was forced to stand outside to film the propaganda of the regime, will look at the disbelief to these scenes.”
Evin’s prison was the subject of an Israeli strike last week. (Wana: Majid Asgaripour via Reuters))
Even the authorities say that the conditions are “unacceptable”
The anti-regime group Edaalate Ali hacked the video surveillance of Evin prison Cameras in 2021 and disclosed the images to expose human rights violations which take place behind its walls.
In an article on the telegram of the encrypted messaging service after the attack on Israel, the organization said that the Iranian authorities were trying to stop friends and parents of people locked up inside the prison to access the region.
“Break the chains of captivity and free political prisoners,” he wrote in an update, before encouraging people to go to the grounds and help the detainees to escape.
The images he has disclosed made the headlines of international newspapers and documented prisoners harassed and sexually beaten, as well as overcrowded cells and self -controlled incidents.
The videos were so shocking, even the Iran’s prisons manager Mohammad Mehdi Haj Mohammadi, described the behavior they discovered as “unacceptable”.
Amnesty International has documented several types of torture Used in Evin prison, notably “Floggings, Shocks Electric, simulated executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, suspension, food for the strength of chemicals and deliberate medical care”.
A man born in Evin prison told ABC that he remembered a “ugly green corridor” when he visited his incarcerated parents. (Reuters))
The Iranian-Kurdish rapper, Saman Yasin, was incarcerated in the establishment for two years for participating in the Iranian uprising in 2022.
He has since detailed a “simulated execution” to which he was submitted, in which he was taken to a pocket set and read his last rights.
“I was under this knot flowing for about 15 minutes, I think,” he told CNN earlier this year.
“I could say that they had brought a cleric, and he recited the Koran above my head … and he kept saying to me:” Repent, so that you were going to paradise “.”
A man, born in the prison, told the ABC to visit his parents there when he was a child.
He said that he remembered a “ugly green corridor” and that he was questioned by the guards before entering.
Iranian officials encouraged this month the country’s judiciary to accelerate trials for anyone accused of “collaborating” with Israel – something that would lead to execution.
Israel’s decision to bomb the prison was criticized by one of his detainees’ sister.
Iran’s theocratic regime has sent dissidents and criticism to Evin prison. (Reuters: Majid Asgaripour / Press Agency in Western Asia))
The French Neomie Kohler, whose brother Cécile and her partner Jacques Paris have been incarcerated in Evin prison since May 2022 to spy on charges of refusal, said that FDI’s attack put innocent “in deadly”.
“This strike is completely irresponsible,” she told the AFP news agency, adding: “It is really the worst thing that could have happened.
“We have no news, we don’t know if they are still alive. We panic,”
Amit Segal, the Chief Political Analyst of Israel Channel 12 News, said in an article on social networks that the strike of Evin prison meant that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu “seems to flirt with the change of regime” in Iran.
“This is an escalation of Israel, because it now targets not only the Iranian military sites, but also the Iranian institutions which oppress their own people-and do not directly affect Israel,” he wrote.
The governments of Israel and the United States have said on several occasions during the 12-day war that they did not try to affect the fall of the Iranian government and its supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Although US President Donald Trump has taken social networks during fighting to ask “if the current Iranian regime is not able to make Iran again large, why could he not change diet ???”
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