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Evin Prison (Persian: زندان اوین, romanized: Zendân-e-Evin) is a prison located in the Evin neighborhood of Tehran, Iran.The prison has been the primary site for the housing of Iran's political prisoners since 1972, before and after the Iranian Revolution, in a purpose-built wing nicknamed "Evin University" due to the high number of students and intellectuals detained there. [3]
Namazi previously spoke with Amanpour by phone in March 2023 from inside Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, in what was an unprecedented interview. He was the longest-held Iranian-American prisoner ...
Ramy Inocencio speaks to a member of Human Rights Watch about the conditions inside the prison and inside Iran. There has been a major fire at Iran's notorious Evin Prison, housing political ...
According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran, there was a "gun battle" in Evin prison Saturday night ongoing at 22:00 local time on the night of 15 October. [14] Explosions from the prison were heard in the early hours of 16 October. [3]
Mehran Raoof, a British-Iranian national and a labour rights activist, is still being detained in Tehran’s Evin prison after Revolutionary Guards agents arrested him in October 2020.
Rosewater, 2014 (about Bahari's 118 days of detention and torture in Iran's Evin Prison, screenwritten and directed by Jon Stewart, in which Bahari is portrayed by Gael García Bernal) To Light a Candle (about the persecution of Baháʼís in Iran and the Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education) [39] The Cost of Discrimination, 2017; 82 Names ...
Iran on Sunday released security footage that it said came from its notorious Evin Prison the night a fire broke out that killed at least eight inmates, an effort to clarify the government's ...
On July 26, 2010, seventeen prisoners from Ward 350 of Evin prison, Iran, executed a 16-day hunger strike to protest solitary confinement, as well as the poor living conditions within the prison. This included the lack of necessary medical treatment, arbitrary detention, denial of access to legal counsel, suspension of visitation privileges and ...