Jailed political prisoner Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani has challenged an MP who recently visited Evin Prison, declaring that his statements about the conditions there were fraught with lies and delusions. A letter by Faezeh Hashemi, which was dated January 27 and published on the Kaleme website, refers to a delegation of MPs that visited Evin Prison ...

On Monday, a group of Iranian MPs who visited the notorious Evin prison described Iran's biggest jail for political prisoners as a "hotel". "From now on, I will call it Hotel Evin, rather than Evin prison," one of them, Safar Naeimi, said after his six-hour tour of the complex in the capital, Tehran. But in recent years, many prisoners of conscience,...