Iran’s prisoners under ‘unbearable’ conditions after Israeli attacks

After a month from a deadly Israeli an airstrike on a notorious Iranian prison during the war between the two countries, prisoners say they are being kept in unbearable and inhuman conditions after they are transferred to other jails.

Despite the promises by the authorities, some transferred from Evin Jail in Tehran say they continue to face difficulties such as crowded cells, bed deficiency and air conditioning, limited number of toilets and rain, and insect infections.

The BBC received accounts from the family members of the prisoners, who left Evin, who had agreed to speak out of the condition of not printing themselves out of anxiety for the safety of themselves and prisoners.

Israel targeted Evin on 23 June. According to Iranian officials, 80 people were killed in the attack, including five prisoners, 41 prison employees and 13 military concentrations.

Thousands of men and women were organized in the jail, including major political disgruntled, human rights defenders, journalists and dual and foreign nationals as well as members of religious and ethnic minorities.

All the prisoners were later taken out and sent to other jails after the attack.

Verified video and satellite imagery complex confirm damage to several buildings, including medical clinics, visitor centers, prosecutor offices and an administrative building.

After the attack, the Israeli army described the jail as “symbol of oppression for the Iranian people”. It said that it “accurately strike to harm the citizens in an accurate manner”.

Iran has called the attack “war crime”.

Israel’s army also stated that Evin was used for “for intelligence against Israel, including counter-jusn”. It did not comment further when asked to provide evidence for the claim.

Amnesty International said on Tuesday that, after a thorough investigation, the attack was formed “A serious violation of international human law And should be criminally investigated as war crimes “.

“Under the International Human laws, the location of a prison or custody is considered a civic item and there is no reliable evidence in the case that Evin Jail formed a valid military objective,” said this.

Through his family members, a political prisoner, sent to the Greater Tehran Central Penitantry, also known as Fashfauehh Jail, said that fellow prisoners told them that they were already inhuman before it was transferred to Evin Detanes.

He said that the prison was outside the capital in such a remote and dangerous area that his wife was unable to see him ever since he went there.

Compared to Evin, which is in an accessible, residential area in North Tehran, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fishfoueh Tehran, is located in the south, there is nothing around it, but with a road, according to family members.

The prisoner told his family that many prisoners were still sleeping on the floor in fashion in congested cells without air conditioning, although the authorities repeatedly said that they would improve the situation.

A video inside the jail, which is verified by the BBC, is shown a cell crowd on the bed and with prisoners lying on the floor.

At one point, a group affiliated to the authorities came to jail to film a video in jail, showing that the prisoners were doing well, but the other prisoners started chanting the “dictator’s death” – a popular protest between the Iranian opposition groups directed by the Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – and stopped filming them.

The families of the prisoners in Fashfaueh said that political prisoners were now living in the same cell, who were guilty of those accused or violent crimes. This is a strategy that rights groups say that Iran uses to intimidate political prisoners and is Against the rules of the United Nations on the treatment of prisoners,

Another political prisoner was transferred to Fashfaueh, who is unbearable from his family due to lack of hygiene to his family, unbearable with bedbugs and cockroaches, stating that there is a lack of basic facilities compared to avin in jail.

Human Rights Watch has earlier accused Iranian officials of using atrocities and dangers of uncertain imprisonment, as well as long -term inquiries and refusal to do medical care for prisoners. Iran has rejected these reports.

Although Evin has long condemned the alleged torture and threats from human rights groups, the terms of Fashfaueh were “weak”, the prisoners told the BBC.

Prominent Iranian journalist Mehdi Mahmudian, who was also shifted from Evin to Fashfoueh, said in a letter published on his Instagram page that due to the non-political nature of the prisoners, which were held there, They were “forgotten for a long time” And “years of years of insults, neglect and harassment of years” because “they have no voice”.

The 62 -year -old book, Fariba Kamlabadi, who was transferred from Evin to Karkak Jail to the south of the capital, said that she would have died in an attack rather than transferred to such a prison “.

The minority Bahai community of Iran has long faced systematic discrimination and oppression, denial of basic rights such as constitutional recognition and education, public employment and religious freedom, as the Islamic Republic does not recognize it as a religion.

“Fariba has to live in QARchak in a crowded cell, where it is so tight that people have to turn to eat around the table, and then return to their bed later due to lack of space”, her daughter, Alhan Taifi, who lives in Britain.

“Some of the about 60 prisoners who have been transferred from Avin with them are elderly women, and they do not get proper medical care. Flies are everywhere in the cell. Their son -in -law and grandchildren, who are six and nine, were allowed to go to Evin, but have not been allowed to go yet, because they are not considered immediate family.”

The BBC has approached the Iranian embassy in London to comment on the terms of the prisoners, which have been transferred from Evin.

Since the strike, the BBC has verified the deaths of seven civilians related to the attack on Evin, including a five -year -old boy, a doctor and a painter.

61 -year -old Mehrangiz Emanpore’s family member, a painter and a mother of two who lived near the jail premises, told the BBC that she was “caught in the tragedy of the attack”.

A family member said that she went out of the house to use a cash machine and was walking on a road adjacent to the visiting center of the jail. He was killed by the influence of the explosion.

His children are destroyed, a relative remembers the BBC.

“When two states engage in a struggle, people are the ones who pay the price. Both states are guilty, both are responsible, and both should be held in the account”, the relative said.

Additional reporting by Shayan Sardarizade, BBC verify