rans judiciary has opened cases against six security guards at Tehrans high-security Evin Prison in connection with viral videos that apparently showed mistreatment of inmates. The newly-appointed Judiciary spokesman Zabihullah Khodaeian, in his first press briefing on Tuesday, said four guards had been introduced to a military court, two others ...

he head of the Iranian Prisons Organization has apologized over bitter incidents at Tehrans Evin Prison after footage went viral of what appears to be some guards mistreating inmates at the facility, while the Judiciary chief has ordereda swift investigation into the matter. The videos which recently circulated on social media outlets appear to ...

The Guardian | Ben Doherty: Academic has reportedly told other prisoners she is outraged at the governments handling of her imprisonment British-Australian woman Kylie Moore-Gilbert is despairing at her isolation inside Tehrans Evin prison, believing she has been abandoned to her decade-long sentence, according to sources within the prison. Political ...

The Guardian | Mattha Busby and Michael Safi: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman detained in Iran, is suspected to have the coronavirus, her family has said. In a statement issued via the campaign, Zaghari-Ratcliffe said: I am not good. I feel very bad in fact. It is a strange cold. Not like usual. I know the kinds of cold I normally ...

The Guardian - Judge in London to decide amount UK should pay Tehran over 40-year-old arms deal A court hearing in London over a 400m debt owed by the UK government to Iran could help decide the fate of the Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Evin jail in Tehran for the last four years. Mr Justice Phillips is ...

Press TV - A minister of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration has been detainedover economic malfeasance charges. Parviz Kazemi, former minister of welfare and social security in the first cabinet of Ahmadinejad, was detainedtwo days ago and transferred to Tehran's Evin House of Detention on charge ofcausing disruption inthe ...

Press TV - The United States has imposed sanctions on several Iranian individuals and organizations, including Evin Prison and the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), over human rights abuses and censorship. The US Treasury Department announced the sanctions Wednesday on its website, saying the listed persons and entities will be blocked ...

MNA Iranian MPs have visited the Evin Prison for three hours on Tuesday. Accompanied by Head of Prisons Organization and also Director General for Prisons in Tehran Province, 10 MPs visited the Evin prisons for three hours on Tuesday afternoon. The MPs visited the Ward 209 and also the ward where those detained in recent unrests were held. The ...

IFP- A group of Iranian lawmakers, composed of reformists, conservatives, and independents, will pay a visit to Tehrans Evin Prison on Sunday. The 10-member delegation includes lawmakers from the Judicial, Education, and National Security parliamentary commissions, a Farsi report by ISNA said. Representatives from the parliamentary factions of ...

IRNA Some members of the Majlis (Parliament) legal and judicial, and national security and foreign policy commissions will visit Evin prison in Tehran on January 28. Spokesman for Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission Hassan Norouzi told IRNA on Sunday that the preplanned visit aims to pursue issues surrounding the fate of those detained during recent ...

AFP - An investigation has been opened into the death in custody of a young Iranian in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, the judiciary said Tuesday, with a lawmaker linking the death to recent protests. "An investigation was immediately opened and the prison guards and other people have been interrogated," said Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari ...

IFP - The Iranian Judiciary has taken dozens of foreign ambassadors residing in Tehran to a tour of Evin Prison to prove that the allegations raised against Iranian prisons are wrong and politically-motivated. The ambassadors of 45 countries were surprised to see the suitable conditions in a prison portrayed by world media as a notorious ...

The family of an Iranian-British former BBC journalist who was detained last week in Tehran were told on Saturday that he was in the capital's Evin prison, a friend told Reuters. Bahman Daroshafaei, 34, a translator and former BBC Persian service reporter, was detained on Wednesday at his home, according to the opposition website Kaleme.com. "His ...

Tehran, January 2, The Iran Project-The head of Iran's Evin Prison says some 500 prisoners are spending their educational careers at high school and university levels during their terms of imprisonment. Rahim Yousefi, the head of Evin's prison on Saturday said that based on the cooperation agreement with Payame-Noor University and Iran's University ...

The claim was rejected on Tuesday by Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates Affairs Hassan Qashqavi, who said there are no talks on swapping Rezaian with Iranian nationals jailed in the US. Today, August 26, 2015, marks the 400th day since Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian was wrongfully arrested in Tehran,...

Tehran (AFP) - The son of Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani began a 10-year prison term for financial and security crimes on Sunday, insisting his conviction was politically motivated. Mehdi Hashemi was in March handed prison sentences totalling 25 years after being convicted on three charges in separate cases involving national security,...

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By Associated Press Political prisoners protest snap body searches, abuse by prison guards in main Tehran prison, opposition website says DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- At least nine Iranian women political prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest snap body searches and abuse by prison guards at the main prison in Tehran, according ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Head of Irans Evin prison dismissed as a lie the recent media reports that a fire had erupted in one of the jails wards last week. Last week, some media outlets attributed to anti-Iran groups, including the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), reported a fire on July 1 in one of the Evin prison wards. In ...

Majid Rezazadeh has been removed from his position as the head of the Evin Prison Infirmary, the opposition website Kaleme reports. According to Kaleme, Rezazadehs treatment of political prisoners in Evin had been very inappropriate throughout his tenure, adding that his role in the attack on Ward 350 prisoners was destructive and negative. Kaleme ...